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I've always put chat bots through the ringer since the smarterchild days, only to be disappointed.

ChatGPT gave me answers I would have never gotten regarding extremely technical concepts that the wikipedia articles would never surface, and would need hours of research papers or formal academic work or maybe just working in the field and being in those communities.

I think it is ironic that Google is sitting on a better conversation AI that is just too busy finessing its own engineers trying to escape.
The reason is that it works well enough, most of the time, for most people. If you are trying to lose weight, you do not need an exact formula to compute the derivative of your weight with respect to time; you need a mental model of your diet and metabolism that moves you toward your goal. CICO basically tells you to look at your two most important levers for doing that (how much you eat and how much you move) and adjust them until your weight moves in the right direction.
Genuinely confused about why he apparently wants to do the job of a technical manager.
Huh. Well, I'm not sure of the legal details, but that seems like a system that ought to be changed, since the incentives are clearly misaligned.
So the weirdest part is that the OP is literally just a cut and paste of a bunch of scripts found in the ruby distribution "samples" folder (that I had no idea even existed).

That pretty not great ruby wasn't written by the author -- it's actually included in a "sample" file with the ruby distro?

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ruby_3_1/sample/dir.rb

A file whose commit history shows... it's part of the very first commit recorded in git history, in 1998 by matz, the original author of ruby.

I have no idea what's going on in that "sample" folder, very weird.

The OP is simply regurgitating the weird "sample" folder. The "author" of the OP didn't write any of this code. According to git history... matz did?!?
Oh, definitely. Even after MP3 compression came along, MIDI and MOD files were just so much smaller and quicker to download over a modem at my baud rate.
Clickbait title. SF Standard, if you want to be taken seriously, cut it with that. Theres nothing that funny about this.

You showed up at a startup office unannounced (and through multiple locked doors) and were surprised by their unpreparedness? I'm sure if you showed up at my office unannounced (early-stage team), nobody would know what to do with you or have time to deal with you.
r-r-r-remix...
> Just cramping more people into small units in SF doesn’t solve jack.

There aren't an unlimited number of people looking to pay $3k for a sf studio. As you build more you eventually run out of people willing to pay that much and prices necessarily decrease.
This is an interesting take that I’ve never really heard before. It makes intuitive sense, but do you have anything more in depth to read on it? Book or article or longer version of the argument, or a history of some kind? Very curious, thanks.
Whenever anything bad happens you'll be the first one to know.
> Some average-sized adult males get overweight with just 1300-1700/calories a day due to slow metabolisms or other genetic factors.

I think this is largely a myth. (The 1700 calorie end is vaguely plausible but not the 1300 calorie end). There was a good article posted here a while ago [1] which talked about this.

Now, it isn't necessarily easy to maintain a certain calorie count, in terms of either knowing how much you're eating or actually sticking to it despite hunger pangs. And some foods can help you feel fuller with less, you can have different balance of muscle vs fat at the same weight, etc. In those senses I agree with people who say calories in calories out isn't the whole story. But in the end, thermodynamics always wins.

Quote from the article:

> Starvation Mode is this wacky idea that if you eat too little an amount of calories for an extended period of time your body stops burning fat; in fact, it starts doing the opposite–you start gaining weight ‘even when consuming 800 calories’. Sound familiar?

> So, how much truth is there to this?

> Well, see, Starvation Mode is an odd one. Because, while it’s not entirely correct, it’s not entirely incorrect either.

> The correct part: When you reduce calories, more specifically as you begin to get leaner, there is, in fact, some slowing of metabolic rate.

> The incorrect part: Due to this low-calorie consumption your body decides fuck you and proceeds to enter this phantom zone of otherworldliness where the laws of thermodynamics cease to exist, resulting in no fat loss, or worse, gaining fat on some absurdly low number of calories.

It goes on for quite some time, and it's worth reading, but I'll quote just one more part.

> This British actress was adamant she had a slow metabolism, turned out she was simply misreporting calorie intake.

> When she recorded her food intake via video journal, her intake, according to her, was 1100 calories. When they checked her actual intake (with doubly labelled water) it came to 3000 calories.

> Even when she was keeping a food diary, she misreported by 43%.

[1] https://physiqonomics.com/eating-too-much/ discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381410
https://archive.vn/c4Avq
That article doesn't mention 570 riots, it mentions "570 (demonstrations, out of 10,600) involved protesters engaged in violence," and clearly not every instance in which at least a single protestor engaged in violence is a riot. And the source for the claim that most demonstrations were peaceful wasn't NPR but US Crisis Monitor, linked here[0], where you can clearly tell from the data that, yes, the vast majority were peaceful. And your claim of "7 riots a day" is such an obvious bad faith manipulation that I'm actually insulted you expect it to be taken seriously.

If you're going to purposely misrepresent a source to that degree, you shouldn't link to the evidence that easily exposes your falsehoods. I know you didn't put a lot of effort in but at least respect the effort you did put in.

[0]https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...
Why do you say the code would become freely available? With no copyleft, you could fork any project and keep the code closed forever.
I don’t know if I’m the only one, but when I used ditto I turned off the auto cleanup stuff. Basically I had it keep everything. I’d go cleanup manually every now and then (especially images), but having a very long term way to look up past code snippets was invaluable.

So then when I got my first Mac I felt lost without a clipboard manager with unlimited storage. I finally found Copy’em and my life has been complete again. :)

https://apprywhere.com/ce-mac.html
Why are the incentives for each provider to drive engagement? If I host a small server in the Fediverse, maybe I don't want/need engagement but happy users who appreciate a healthy community and are willing to pay a dollar a month to keep it running.

I can compete with other providers, but I don't need to out-compete them.
now I want to work on a music app that changes your playlist based on heart rate
There's the very good tool Hypothes.is for taking notes and highlights. If the Obsidian community can develop a plugin that can obtain the stream of highlights from the Hypothesis API, then I guess that is possible.
This makes me think that maybe Google Plus (God, what a shitty name), could have succeeded. The focus on sharing into circles of users who wanted your content would have made it a system where you pick who should view a given post. This circle-oriented sharing may have led to less self-promotion than the other platforms.
We laugh about China doing this on a massive scale, except it involves things like basic travel and food. Now, we will start doing it to ourselves.
It's not "burdensome," it's impossible, because they are not businesses handling money for customers, they're regular people running an internet protocol. They don't, for example, ever take custody of anyone else's money.

Requiring KYC of businesses who do take custody of other people's money is something we do already, even in crypto.
I think this is not a libertarian place then.
Tesla stock concerns go beyond Elon Musk multitasking at Twitter: Analyst
> I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!

Who'd want the job as CEO? You'd be a puppet CEO at best, constantly being told what to do by Musk and constantly undermined by his latest antics and pronouncements.
KCBX to shut down Santa Barbara signal citing climate change
KCBX says increased tropospheric ducting due to warmer water makes repeater KSBX (89.5/Santa Barbara) unlistenable in its coverage area.
As it stands, all the myths of our culture are only allowed to be told by giant media conglomerates. Nobody but the House of Mouse, for instance, can tell the stories of Darth, Luke, Han, and Yoda.
Safari is going to drop big time when alt browsers become mandated on iOS by the EU. We will have chrome and chrome forks only.
I am still not seeing how am I paying for parking. In my city the lot size and the impervious coverage (you cannot build to cover more than 40% of the land) is caused by preventing flooding, if people built more houses and covered more land it would cause more flooding and has nothing to do with the cars.
I didn’t even count calories and lost 30 pounds last year.

Eat less food.

Stopped snacking between meals, and ate a salad for dinner a few nights a week. Also, tried to reduce my meal size, in general.

Getting that hungry feeling between meals that I would always satisfy meant I was creating a deficit.
I want to mess around in an oculus quest 2 version of these. Flicking switches and causing meltdowns just to hear and see the alarms firing.
> A competent Java programmer is not slower than a competent Python programmer. Time to market won't suffer.

A fast horse is not slower than a fast car.

Languages and ecosystems shape how people think. For example, you will find that Java and Python programmers have very different values and principles. Given same options, they will make extremely different choices. Clearly this is going to have at least some effect on time to market.

I found Java to be a land of overengineering, verbosity, and anti-patterns. The infamous "Hammer Factories" [1] post screams Java to me.

[1] https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
I doubt this question can be answered in a short comment. The differences stem from thousands of years of diverging cultural influences, history and geography. As for Russia, this video gives a good introduction to the origins of Russian Authoritarianism (with comparisons to power structures in China and Europe over history), that go all the way back to the 5th century A.D. with the Huns and the unique geography/climate of Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZqBLcIvw0.
> The biggest risk in this case is that investment firms, such as Goldman and Berkshire try and steal the housing without ever intending to release onto the market.

Pretty sure this is actually already happening at a furious pace — PE firms, right? In fact I’m pretty sure I’ve read HN threads about it.
> some of us have far wider margins for how generously our body will burn off or otherwise not hold on to those calories.

That’s always seemed like a nonsensical rebuttal.

Nobody is actually measuring how many calories they burn per day or the actual content of their food down to 4 decimal places, but you can quickly get a baseline based on comparing rates of weight loss and total calories consumed because the difference in died aren’t subtle. If 2100 calories doesn’t work fast enough try 2000...
It is a pattern with an exception.
He's quitting when he "finds a replacement" and will still own the company and run the "software and servers" of the company. Yeah, that's not really quitting, that's getting a fall guy.
I was talking about US law, where the purpose was to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." but even that very first copyright law written saw the need for the "Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books"
I graduated then, from a smallish state school, with a degree in CS. Everyone in my graduating class got a decent to great job right out of school. You might be able to find individual examples of failures to launch but in the vast majority of cases it’s simply not true that CS majors went to Geek Squad.
Our country of the year for 2022 can only be Ukraine
In practice the issue was few people understood and properly used circles. I mostly just used them to sort kinda a primary and secondary feed. One to keep up with, and one for casual browsing.
Really nice, I've played around with SDFs trying to make Fluid Simulations, which after much hair pulling I realized hadd particles only "pushing" one way on eachother, because I didn't think that GPUs are unable to have different jobs write back to shared memory. Well, I just found a fluid asset that was 1000x better than what I made.

The shape library looks pretty comprehensive, and the calling conventions are nice!
Firefox is doomed to fail no matter what. FF succeeded because built in browsers sucked. Now they don’t suck so users have no reason to switch them.
Prohibition is the only constitutional amendment to ever be repealed, and was only on the books for 14 years. It's an absolute embarrassment. A lot of people died, as well.

Prohibition was an unmitigated disaster. I really can't come up with a better illustration of why Americans won't go for a wide spread ban on tobacco. Prohibition perfectly illustrates the exact opposite of your argument.
Take a look at my second comment.

I think with my first comment you got what was literally said to me.

My second comment is me recalling and re-reading between the lines.
I don't think any big pharma companies would be interested in providing a potassium supplement, as they are already cheap, readily available, and not able to be patented.
It seems like they were attempting to leverage existing USB camera drivers and viewers. That would allow writing the output once on the device and it being consumable on anything that can use a USB webcam. M
> What I have read is that a lot of the moderation requests at the behest of the FBI were favorable to biden and democrats in general.

It sounds like you’re interpreting this as “the FBI colluded with twitter to influence the election,” when a more parsimonious interpretation might be “Democratic candidates received more violent rhetoric and domestic terror threats that warranted FBI involvement.”
> Similar to failed banks, something like this would need to be dealt with using a special procedure to prevent bank runs.

You could, I suppose, use exactly the same procedure you use for a failed bank, which is force them to auction off their assets and liabilities, rolling their depositors into other, better-behaved banks.
Wow the output is HD

I envy the hardware skills
It's hard to imagine what role this type of mass facial recognition technology would have in a healthy society.
I think it's a mix of both clash of ideologies, and attempts to outdoor the other with snarky responses. Throughout history political ideology has had strong opinions from opposing sides, but typical only a subset of people were given an opportunity to voice them. Now, anyone can and a lot of it does seem to be pure snark.
This list amounts to a social credit system that some cities in China have implemented. I always thought that was something we’d like to avoid in the US. The fact that it’s privatized in the US and a government list in China makes no difference: is it any different to be blocked from taking a bullet train in China than to be blocked from flying in the U.S.?

I have several concrete problems with these lists.

1. Secrecy. I should have a right to know if I’m on the black list.

2. Due process. There is no process to being put on the black list. Partially because you don’t know it’s happening, there’s no way to contest it.

3. Permanency. The punishment should fit the crime. If you do something at 18 that shouldn’t be a lifetime punishment. However being on a secret list of names and faces distributed between companies is a lifetime punishment.

> If the list is too inaccurate, it stops doing its job and becomes a net-no-help to the venue using it.

This is an extremely optimistic take. In reality, what is the threshold of false positives where the list stops being useful? One percent? Five percent? Hell, even if the list is 10% wrong you’re still denying people who should be denied 90% of the time. And there will always be a stigma against people who are on such lists. “You must’ve done something to get on that list.”
try usajobs for federal. for CA there is calcareers, should be something similar for the state you’re interested in
In VB/ASP3.0 (Windows 2000) the VB string concat was very slow and I built a small class to just make them concat faster (pre-allocated buffer). Sped up those Response.Write() like 40x.

While writing it I was surprised by all the text vs binary crap Windows does.
Now look at the double digit interest rates they paid on those mortgages. You pay the monthly payment, the top line number is largely irrelevant.

https://www.atlanticbay.com/knowledge-center/history-of-mort....
"Davis is now upping the legal ante, challenging MSG’s license with the State Liquor Authority."

Ah, the Devil is always in the Details.
I am always pleasantly amazed and surprised when I see something truly odd, in a hyperbolic example, like "We have implemented a complete gravitational model of the solar system on a commodore 64" or "Custom cartridge created for NES/Famicom for advanced protein folding simulations" or "Reverse engineering a Chumby to add a 100 gigabit ethernet interface"
Yes. Anytime you want something to be replicable. If I am making a custom case, connector, or other piece of hardware, I want a standard part. A $170 RPi won't be $170 forever, but I know I'll be able to buy it approximately forever (or a compatible successor).

I want mounting holes, ports, and similar to be in the same place.

When I was first doing contract engineering work straight out of school, my time was worth $125/hour. Last time I was doing it, it was worth $350/hour. With inflation, I'd guess it's higher now, but I don't know.

A $170 part for prototyping is okay. An extra 5 hours dealing with compatibility or form factor issues is not.
Consider this:

At 75 years past the death of the creator it’s possible you cannot use anything that came out throughout your entire life. Nothing you grew up with, nothing that inspired you, nothing that speaks to the life you lived.

It’s even possible that your children and your grandchildren will not be able to use anything you knew. Definitely not anything they knew.

We’re in real danger of cultural death with these rules restricting our expression.

Thankfully current artists have the option of open licenses for their works.

If I could, I would flip a switch right now where I am only exposed to things with open licenses for the rest of my life.

I’m happy to forget about everything Disney ever made. They can go put it in the vault forever and protect it with all the lawyers and guards in the world. I will never ask them to release it and they can feel safe that no one will be able to “steal” it.
a common trap in "deep work only" teams is local optimisation. while interruptions should be minimized and batched, the overall flow of cards and a low average cycle time requires focused collaboration and regular slack time to resolve blockers. Otherwise, important issues spend more time waiting than getting completed. Individual deep work with low collaboration while more important work is piling up would be an antipattern.
She never introduced a bill to codify abortion before Roe was overturned instead of using it for fundraising. She supported Hillary even when she supported the no-bankruptcy bill on student loans. Again, it's only for marketing.
Elon Musk Says He Will Resign as Twitter CEO When He Finds Successor
It's still just not as good as group chats. It has no community vibe as each person is posting to a different group of people. If I join a programming group chat, I'll get to know everyone there and the content will almost all be around the topic of the group. If I open something like Google Plus, it's going to be some content probably related to what I might like to see, but it's still just a public forum with no community.
If I write a best seller at age 25, I hope that I can still claim my royalties past age 45. I'd also argue that heirs should also have some period of exclusivity as well. Using the best seller at age 25 example, were I to die an untimely death at age 32 I would again hope that my very young daughter would still be able to receive benefit from my creative works. So author life + 20 years to the first heir (exclusively) would work for me.

In the case of a non-human copyright holder, 50 years seems reasonable can broadly comparable to that of the life of a human creator.
And jail has the benefit of a lot of rights: the right to due process, legal representation, and to know the charges against you among others.
What do you think you’d get today for a similar contract position if you had to guess? Really curious
So lying and crying victim and then trying to ad hominem based on your failure at reading comprehension then.

If you want people to treat you with respect, you could try making a single good faith comment, rather than a ridiculous stretch using tortured definitions and then cry bullying when people point out how ridiculous it is.
>> Homophones are next. "Hey Jude".

Rob : You're a total paranoid.

Alvy Singer : Well, how am I a para-? I pick up on those kind of things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, "Did you eat yet or what?" and Tom Christie said, "No, didjew?" Not, "did you", "didjew eat?" Jew? No, not "did you eat", but "Jew eat"? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?
Question is, how much influence will be retain? Assuming this ever happens.
MIDI is great for live performance and terrible for most anything else.
May favourite suckerpinch is the Uppestcase and Lowestcase letter video.

I like that he takes something familiar - and goes sideways with it such that you could have thought of that, but probably wouldn't have "explored that space" mentally.
If coercing the wealthy on housing issues constitutes “fleecing”, then I’ll take several sweaters, please.

> but others you let just... walk in ?

My guy we can do both, we can fleece all the third and fourth home owners, foreign and domestic, it’ll be glorious, join us
VR meetings are surprisingly good, actually.

I work at a VR startup, we have employees across the country. Once a week we meet in horizon workrooms, and it's usually pretty productive.

I wouldn't say it's more or less effective than a regular video call, but it does add a certain something to help feel connected with our remote employees.

That said, I fully recognize and admit that an office full of people talking to each other through VR headsets while sitting in the same room makes you look absolutely fucking insane. We had an HVAC technician during one of our VR meetings, and I'm a little embarrassed that he had to watch that.
I wonder if Dmitry Medvedev is busy right now?
Agreed here too. This was a poor choice IMO. They call it canvas but it looks like a poor hybrid between mind mapping and UML. Markdown already supports hierarchy. I am guessing this let's you set coordinates for how to lay the canvas out but this is exactly why I'd never use it.
I don’t anticipate taking advantage of the advice, but can you share any references on navigating such a long term move to Europe? I’ve been told Portugal is a good starting point.
That might work. Directors would easily have access to 24, 48, 72, 96, and 120fps
Very familiar with region. Even during summer its large group of kids that trade on and off for a few hours at a time.