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Tesla autopilot is notoriously unsafe, and still extremely bad even at simple problems. Not sure how it could be called a "solved problem" - especially when you have the CEO of Waymo saying publically that he doesn't believe we'll "ever" reach level 5 autonomous driving.

There have been massive improvements in automated driving, but if you want to talk about solved problems, parking assisst is as far as you can get.

Translation is much better, and is often understandable, but it is far from a solved problem.

Colorizing/repairing old photos also often introduces strange artifacts in places where they are unnecessary. Again, workable technology, not a solved problem.

Voice transcription is also decent, but far from a solved problem. You need only look at YouTube auto-generated captions to see both how far it has come and how many trivial errors it still has.

And regarding "generalizable intelligence" and arithmetic in GPT-3, the paper can't even definitively confirm that the examples that they showed are not part of the corpus (they note that they made some attempts to find them that didn't turn out anything, but they can't go so far as to say they are certain that the particular calculations were not found within the corpus). They also make no attempts to check the model itself to find if any sub-structure may have simply encoded an addition table for 2-digit numbers.

Also, AGI will certainly require at least some attempts to get models to learn about the rules of the real world, the myriad bits of knowledge that we are born with that are not normally captured in any kinds of text you might train your AI on (the idea of objects and object permanence, the intelligent agent model of the world, the mechanical interaction model of the world etc.).
Back when I was a kid, the Atari 2600 joystick:

https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/consolecontrollerevolution...

was known to be tough. Over engineered, which makes sense in a new market.

I had a friend, who would get annoyed/frustrated, and literally THROW the joystick against the wall. The floor. Your head. :P Tantrum kid.

Anyhow, other than the rubber top coming off of the stick, it just worked forever. I remember when I moved to the Vic20, then the C64 and eventually the Amiga, I still had those Atari joysticks in use with each newer machine.

Incredible joystick. I can't imagine a modern console controller standing up to Tantrum Kid.

(Not saying your kids are throwing controllers at walls, floors, people's heads, etc...)
From the video description:

"This is the CubicDoom, all the cubes have rebelled against
humankind! You need to stop the invasion!

Use Left Ctrl to turn to left, use Left Alt to turn to right.
Press Left Shift to advance, and Right Shift to shoot.

Destroy all cubes on the current maze to advance to the
next one. Careful! The cubes will advance towards you."
You become easy prey for vultures.

On a slight tangent but still related, think overdraft fees. We don't live in a world where the bank will give you money when you need it. They will take more away ever since we invented negative numbers.

I want to live in a world where help is automatically routed to those in need, even without them asking for it.
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Your interpretation that I am 'complaining' about the EU. I was making the point that trade barriers help bring greater regional diversity and more locally produced agricultural products. This was in response to the parent comment complaining about trade barriers, which might make it somewhat harder for them to expand into the UK but, on the other hand, might make it easier for a UK based supplier to get started in their own market. Thus you end up with two businesses (one in the UK, one in Germany), rather than one.

But if you do want me to speak about the EU then yes, I would argue that a neoliberal project such as the EU helps bring consolidiation and makes for big winners (both corporations and countries) at the expense of smaller entities (again, corporations and countries). We have seen this with the EU, with Germany and its industrial corporations winning at the expense of Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc and their industrial corporations losing.
I agree that too.

Basically, it's all about the choice and circumstances the woman has and is in.
I hope that one day, you will feel the joys of making an unexpected, faraway contact, of sitting on a hill with friends, listening to the signal in the noise while picnicking, reaching others with just the power of a light bulb. Receiving funny or weird SSTV images, building your own antenna, experience the inventive, experimental and social aspects of being a member of a club station, discover the fishing-like or competitive aspects of contests and so much more...
I find doing the dishes somewhat meditative. If I've spent the morning grappling with a difficult work problem then I need something mindless to do for 20 minutes.
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They are, currently at least, a small improvement for a small part of many people's lives. They probably have a measurable impact on the world, but not anything that could be called world changing.
I wouldn't fear Google imposing price increases, I would fear Google eventually jettisoning their registry business because it doesn't make Google-scale money or serve a strategic purpose.
Most companies are too dysfunctional to employ any strategy other than “do an okay job at all the same things everyone else in the industry is doing”.

It’s actually pretty rare the company that can do its own thing and survive at it.
I have nothing against personal tastes, but I would prefer if the gaming community gave more appreciation to low-poly, artsy, cartoony, and/or stylized graphics that would donwscale better rather than (IMHO overused) hyper-realistic highdef textures and sophisticated lighting effects (that often end up making panorama views "foggy"). I have nothing to say about FPS, more is always better :)

It is also worth mentioning that ray-tracing will offer new depths for highdef textures and sophisticated lighting effects so I don't expect this trend to change soon.
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The UK voted to join the eec, which then morphed into the eu with various treaties. By the time of the Lisbon treaty, the UK was promised a referendum.

That promise was then broken, probably because France, the Netherlands and Ireland all had referendums and all voted against the eu constitution which then became the Lisbon treaty. The prime minister was rightly worried that the UK would vote against it.

Ireland got a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and so it passed. France and the Netherlands didn't get a referendum on that and I expect there is some resentment in those countries still because of it.
I had a workshop fire once. Grabbing the fire extinguisher and quickly putting it out was defintely a better idea than outsourcing that task.
Jesus Christ, I have no frame of reference for someone thinking that they could and should have “saved” a marriage by electronically surveilling their partner who falsely accused them of a crime. Sounds like one of those teen dystopian novels.
Would you also find it surprising that each band that plays in a venue buys their own audio equipment?
Try reading about and watching (video of) kabuki. Typical plots involve the standard hot-blooded hero with a strong sense of justice exacting vengeance on a villainous rival. Kabuki actors deliver their lines in an over-the-top fashion, strike cool poses as they're introduced, and even undergo "transformation sequences" that make important revelations and up the stakes in the plot -- much like anime characters. (Transformations in kabuki are effected with rapid costume changes and traditional stage effects.) Like anime, kabuki is also recognizable by being highly stylized, with realism de-emphasized in favor of spectacle and looking cool.

Anime tends to share with Japanese theater a much more lingering emphasis on the atmosphere of the setting and the emotional states and thoughts of the characters compared to fast-paced, exposition-heavy Western media.

Of course there are plenty of exceptions, and some anime is even explicitly styled after Western media.
Well to be accurate there are middlemen in most ripple transactions, but not a middleman of the traditional sense. They're not pure facilitators, but rather active participants in the transaction. I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that by some interpretations this makes a difference in the regulation.
I don't give to charity out of principle but I do pay for higher taxes, at least in areas that I know will be used well (so not SF for example).
It wasn't binding. MPs could have voted to reject the outcome of the referendum.
I'd add Far Manager, which has been THE file manager for more than 15 years for me on Windows. BSD license: https://www.farmanager.com/download.php?l=en
I wish it was ported to Linux and I'd probably never use midnight commander again
> There are many devs with no network who are fine programmers.

With no work experience? They don't have anyone at all from the last place they worked who could vouch for their ability to write code/design systems/fix bugs?

I find that very hard to believe. Though I'm saying this from my experience, I have no "network" of people to rely on (and I'm not also on social media) unless you consider contact info of people I worked with in the past as a network.

Sure, if you have no experience, one would be tempted to go through the whole hiring filtration as a service, but as soon as you get a job, you can just let future employers ask anyone who worked with you in the past (while ignoring those that wont accept that) and provide contact info rather than jumping through the next hiring filtration as a service again. At the very least, you wouldn't rely on the hiring filtration hiring filtration as a service funnel as much.
Diamonds work.
It’s not as complicated as contract killing... India is notorious for men pouring acid or petrol on women to kill them. They don’t hire a third party.
Sample libraries are usually WAVs or (non-MPC) encoded audio files. Mac Minis simply don't have the processing power to handle the DAWs, which are generally CPU-intensive and can be memory-intensive depending on the VSTs or plugins used.
Where I used to live, they pay this mentally disabled girl at a grocery store to get shopping carts. She would be wholly incapable of doing anything remotely mentally challenging. But with this, she can take some of the burden off her family to care for her, she can have something of her own going on in her life, and she is a human being and I'm sure feels from time to time like she is a burden and gets down about it, so she probably gets some dignity from it. She would probably be out of a job if minimum wage got raised to 15 an hour. She would be priced out of the job market and that job would not be worth paying anyone to perform.

You'll notice that when wages are artificially increased, unemployment rises. Which jobs do you think were destroyed? Which workers do you think were let go? It is self evident. When wages are raised by decree, some jobs and some people are priced out of a labor market. Just because there are still low skill jobs and low skilled workers does not mean there was not a reduction in those jobs.
Sort of a side note: Exceptional Mac programs are often showcased and awarded. Either by Apple or others in the Mac “community”.

Is there example from the Windows side? Programs that highlight the very best the Windows platform can deliver?
I would say point free is a case of form over function, beauty over readability. Other examples would be slim laptops with loud fans and those low height keyboards that get blocked by small particles.
It did work in English though. Maybe not as well, but I do remember noticing in the original Animal Crossing that there was some correlation between the sounds and the text. Even if it was just the timing and intonation, it could definitely be understood that the lines were actually being spoken in some form. I don't think it was TTS because it was too accurate in a really subtle way.

Or maybe it was and they tweaked it well enough to work. It's been a while, my memory could be off. I don't know if it would have been prohibitive on the GameCube to have audio of every line (there were a lot), but I wouldn't put it past them to have done so.
Probably no different from each professional cook in a kitchen bringing his/her own knives to work. Are you going to rely on the crappy "house" equipment that everyone shares and you have no idea what quality it is? I suppose also that a theater has no interest or incentive to keep the equipment top notch, etc. or well-maintained (or is even qualified to do it).
That is assuming they tried to write their own TTS instead of just taking an existing, working English TTS and speed it up and distort it. Why would they do that?

To me it does sound exactly like that too in English.

I'd wager it's more obvious in the Japanese version because Japanese is the exceptional language. There are only 44 syllables in Japanese (English has about 16,000) and one would probably still notice this in otherwise unintelligible distorted speech.
I ran a multithreaded poker solver (a Windows executable) on top of Wine on Rosetta on base MacBook 13 M1 and it beats the performance of base MacBook Pro 16 inch (Intel 6-core) with Windows running on bare metal by a small margin.

(M1 fan actually turned on, which is a rare occurrence; at the same time MacBook Pro 16 Intel would be frying my laps. Ballpark estimates on the internet seem to pin it down beating MBP16 6-core i7 and trailing MBP16 8-core i9 on pure CPU performance benchmarks, power obviously much lower; GPU far better than Intel UHD 630 and close but not quite as good as Radeon 5300M.)

For most applications that aren't especially pathological for Rosetta (e.g. V8 x64), it seems not more than 10-30% slower than arm64.

(Don't feel too surprised. If your binary is static code, it is pretty much a static compiler from x86 to ARM [albeit an incredibly well executed one], so not magic: in fact if you disable SIP on your system, you can peek into the translated executables in `/var` and look into them via `objdump`/`otool`)

--

Another benchmark that is a bit worse for Rosetta:

Compiling gRPC from clean source (not quite Apple to Apple comparison cause under Rosetta, it runs LLVM x86 codegen vs LLVM arm64 codegen outside Rosetta and I did not want to mess with the flags). I also feel like process creation under Rosetta can be more expensive, but not sure.

- MacBook 16 (i7-9750H, 16GB): 67s

- MacBook 13 (M1, 8GB): 48s

- MacBook 13 (M1, 8GB, Rosetta): 85s

Now I have my Intel Macs to list on Craiglist...
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Every party voted for it except the SNP. Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Green Party also had it in their manifestos that they would hold a referendum on our membership of the eu.
What do folks think of the recommended WinMerge and Perforce Visual Merge, over Beyond Compare?
I've been using Beyond Compare for years and have yet to see anything I like better.

Total Uninstall should also be on this list, to keep your machine clean if you're like me and try out dozens or hundreds of different software titles per year.

SysInternals belongs up there with NirSoft.

I used Teracopy for a while but found it buggy on occasion and worried about forgetting what I had queued. If it's gotten better I might give it another whirl.

I've got a slew of great utilities I've collected over the years which I find indispensible on Windows.
There's a lot of overlap with Scott's, but I think he's missing some gems. Could share my own list if anyone is interested.
Agree that those discussions are a waste. Hope that HN isn't striving for equivalence or equality in illogical assertions along an east/west dichotomy.
There are various benchmarks on YouTube showing the performance is reasonable. Native code is obviously faster but with rosetta it seems like the M1 is a mid tier Core i5 or Ryzen 3 series in performance. Not bad at all but not top tier.
No raises are fine if they make it clear from their hiring that you're being paid above band. Also, raises aren't really the way to move up in tech, it's to jump ship as you say.
The scary thing is that the main perpetrator of that rape/murder was 17 years old and under Indian law couldn’t even be sentenced to a long prison term. He’s out and his name is unknown.
Ruby isn't new or novel anymore, and is a relatively small niche. Learning it properly takes time and effort - hence the "dread". I'm pretty sure 10 years ago no one dreaded Ruby yet the language was almost identical to what it is now. So I think it speaks less about languages per se and more about hype cycles and job markets.
I thought that was obvious, so I guess my comment wasn’t clear.

A 3D scanner is an artist’s tool. By using a 3D scanner, you aren’t getting rid of artists, you are just changing how artists do their jobs. Vocal synthesizers and vocal transformers, similarly, aren’t making it possible to press a button and get reasonable sounding voice in your games if you don’t have a voice actor making it possible. If you aren’t convinced, then just look at soundtracks. You can press a button and your iMac will spit out the sounds of the BBC Symphony Orchestra violin section. In spite of this, getting a symphonic score is still expensive. It’s expensive enough that TV shows (with sizable budgets) often skip out on the symphonic score and do something cheaper. We haven’t gotten rid of musicians, it’s just that musicians are much more likely to have computers.

There is, in theory, nothing stopping you from buying like $200 in software and making a symphony orchestra right now. The problem is that you have no idea how to write a symphony orchestra. For the same reason, if you have an iPhone 12 or something similar then you can start using the LIDAR features and making a 3D model using photogrammetry in moments—except for the fact that you have no idea how to make a 3D model.

I think there’s a trap that people fall into, thinking that technology is just around the corner that will get rid of job X, Y, or Z. Often what you end up with is MORE people doing job X, Y, and Z, it’s just that they use computers to do it, and have a different skill set.
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Yeah, shutting yourself in a padded room isn't a good strategy to maximise your quality-adjusted life years. I think you could make a case for spending a significant amount of time looking into the science of aging/senescence and seeing what you could do personally to contribute to the field, if only money.
I get it. It was a fun thing to do pre-internet and before universal cell phone coverage, but I can think of a million more interesting things to do than contacting strangers just for the sake of it. What a waste of time!

I knew I was going to get hammered with minus points.
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The 'hacker way' to me was to use my programming skills to write some software that helps me to achieve my goals. The project is steadily picking up steam and now has a small but quite dedicated following. It has helped me to build up a repertoire of pieces that I can play well enough to execute them fault less which leaves me free to concentrate on how I want to play them, good enough that the people I live with will ask me to play a certain piece because they enjoy it.

The next step is to outfit my ancient Yamaha G3 (1966), that I bought relatively cheaply with a sensor bar so the software can be used on the acoustic piano as well rather than just on the digital one. I love the sound of the acoustic.

The software will be further expanded over the next year, we have a very long list of things we want to add and make it do, hopefully without cluttering the user interface by making most of it completely automatic. Some of these features will be groundbreaking, the current iteration is more of a testbed than anything else. If you want to mess around with it or hack on it feel free: https://pianojacq.com/ the code is on gitlab as well.
I don't know how it was historically. But I got this typical thing where I think more software and gear will make me a better producer and thus I buy almost every big daw, software synth and all plugins I come across and have yet to find the first thing that doesn't run on windows (apart from logic pro obviously)
I don't know about the present state, but certainly 10 years ago you would have had to be out of your mind to use anything but a Mac in an Audio setup that is used for important live performances - the Audio and MIDI stacks on Windows were a mess compared to those in OSX.
Most audio software suites were historically dual-OS, or Windows only, for example, Cakewalk, AVID ProTools, and Ableton. Even Logic started as a Windows-first DAW.

Indeed, the whole point of Apple buying Logic (and discontinuing the Windows releases) was that they needed a DAW on MacOS to get audio professionals to consider the OS. People don't remember this any more, but the Apple versions of Logic were very much inferior to the Windows versions.
We already have TypedPython. It's called Mypy, and any organization doing serious or larger scale Python development should already have this hooked up to their CI.

Together with Pycharm you get almost same level of fearless refactoring only C# or Java can offer.

It's a bit shocking to see people not using it or not even being aware of it's existence, because without it large codebases quickly become a steaming pile of unsafe mess.
Compared to Windows Terminal, I started to use Fluent Terminal (also on Microsoft store), and it is amazing! It crashed a few times at first, but it's customizable, has a settings UI, and is just as fast and nicer looking compared to Windows Terminal.

X-Mouse button control is another app I absolutely love. It replaced my Logitech Options, and works quite nice, and quietly sits doing just that.
I also thought Broadway was some Intel CPU or some console GPU.. oh it's actually the name for an ATI GPU
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> [asymmetry] isn't ordained by nature

Not by "nature", but the asymmetry is fundamental to the relationship: one entity provides a service the other pays for it.

Now the specific consequences of that fundamental asymmetry can be changed by political activism, but not the fundamental asymmetry itself. Unless you are going to start paying companies to employ you, whatever that actually means.

> Whatever that relationship is now in the US,

As I explained, the behaviour discussed would just as much get you fired in my native Germany, which is one of the most employee-friendly places around. So unlike what you are trying to imply, that this is a very specific point in the spectrum of possible relationships, it pretty much spans that entire spectrum.

> crying foul is legitimate

Nope, except for in the most legalistic sense: sure you can cry foul. Just don't be surprised if people aren't sympathetic and instead laugh at you. So basically crying foul will not be effective in those circumstances.

If you threaten to quit as a bluff in order to get your demands met, don't be surprised if the other party calls your bluff [and in many sense they have to call your bluff. If you don't understand that...well try to figure it out].

If it wasn't a bluff, then why are you complaining?

> Google does it all the time

How does Google doing something legitimise it?!? They deserve all the scorn they get when they do it.
Companies don't care about false negatives, they don't want false positives because that is concretely lost revenue, rather than not hiring someone.
> I write Scala that looks pretty close to Python

Interesting. I’ve never used Scala - do you have any example code available?
It really is too bad that GPU drivers are closed and hard to re-implement in HaikuOS, the performance and resource management seems awesome compared to the current "bloated" operating systems.