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I discovered some weird thing: our brain seems to have "taste memory", separate from "regular" memory. If you have the same dinner several times in a row, for example, you become averse to it. You then have to stop having it for awhile so that the brain "forgets" what it tastes like.
This is what I want. Have you found an appliance that includes both?
Oh, great! Now we have to come up with proper code words and code books for everyday life! I', not worried so, some AI solution will help us with that for sure.
1-2 years ago someone posted here (or on Reddit?) an air quality monitoring device with a beautiful UI that was available for purchase for something like $300-400 USD. The onboard display showed a graph of AQI with a small knob to scroll through history. The sensors used were far more sensitive than most consumer products at that pricepoint.

This was something someone had made and was selling through their own site. Anyone remember this? I'm unable to find it.
One thing that gives me pause for thought: even here on Earth, we are all, likely, descendants of a single organism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor .

It doesn't necessarily mean that the 0-1 creation of life happened exactly once on Earth (maybe it happened many times but the other lineages died out), but I think it makes this argument likely. We see a near-infinite menagerie of different organisms, from archaea and bacteria to reptiles and mammals, each finding its own niche, yet we don't see, on our own planet, any other blueprint for 0-1 life creation. Everything is DNA/RNA and cells, based on carbon and water, etc. And here we know conditions are just right, and we have studied the Earth like no other alien world.

I'd expect, if the universe is in fact teaming with life, that we would see "aliens" on our own planet. But all we see is descendants of LUCA. It seems to me that either "life" is in fact vanishingly rare, or there's lots of other life forms we don't notice (including on Earth). My gut feeling is on the former.
I don’t think it’s that people expect it. It’s that some people absolutely despise the idea of artists and have some irrational desire to erase their jobs and automate it all.

These people usually aren’t people signing checks—just angry people online, and oftentimes tied in with political motivations. I don’t think many companies are licking their lips at the idea of firing artists (yet). They’re probably thinking about how they can use this to assist artists to get more done faster and at higher quality.
100%. The tech my father tried to use in the last year of his MND was so poor (effort to train it, reality of what it delivered- jilted voice).

The impact on his quality of life - imagine not being able to communicate at all - would have been massive were it better.
Au-contraire, I think its naive to think that when such a large fraction of our lives (and economic activity) is built around particular types of for-profit businesses that we can somehow achieve our broader goals without them.

We must break that spell. For-profit business are not structured according to some immutable laws of nature. Everything about them is a legal construct and it can be tweaked. Corporate entities didn't even exist until a few centuries ago. There is probably an entire spectrum of entities one can have between a charity and a typical modern corporate.
I've read incredibly insightful articles online. One of the things that help is RSS and self-curation.
I've seen ted talks and read about Mr. Savory's ideas and methods, and from a position of a carnivore it makes (some) sense. But if you really value nature, wild life, appreciate the biodiversity and complex interactions of undisturbed ecosystems, and start seeing animal farming for what it really is, suddenly his ideas begin losing their weight.

I don't like to participate in ad hominem attacks, but in this case ... that man is a livestock farmer directly responsible for the killings of tens of thousands of african elephants. The effect that had on the ecosystems is enormous.

If we were to take the land away from animal farming and return it to the nature, while protecting forests and all animals, including predators, positive effects would surely outweigh mr. Savory's pseudo-scientific endeavours, maybe protecting him from another blunder of his life.

And Mr. Savory could start growing vegetables, it would help more.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Savory

"... while I was Director 30,529 [elephants] were killed, mostly on culls, and the countrywide population grew from an estimated 44,109 to 52,583 animals.” However, this culling program did not reverse the degradation of the land as expected, and Savory has called his decision to advocate for the culling of large numbers of elephants "the saddest and greatest blunder of my life."
Not really relevant. I'm responding to someone saying it's a surefire investment. I'm saying it can be volatile. If the reasons are unclear all the more reason to be wary.
Also useful are ctrl-e and ctrl-y to shift the whole screen up or down while keeping the cursor on the same line.
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DAO as in decentralized autonomous organization? As a non USian, im not grokking that.
> Twitter got bought out by a low-attention-span, overconfident billionaire who started pulling out Jenga blocks to see whether the system would fall over, and when it did, we all got crushed by the falling blocks.

I’m not sure how consistent application of moderation rules, refocusing on actual user safety like CSA instead of preferred pronoun use, and transparency when it comes to government manipulation of political conversation is ‘pulling out the jenga blocks’ but Musk can certainly done a better job with Twitter than Doctorow did with Boingboing.
Jay Maisel was the buyer. The story behind it is phenomenal. I highly recommend the documentary, "Jay Myself".

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jaymyself

I did Jay's workshop back in the 90's. He completely changed the way I look at photography and I was an assistant to Ansel Adams primary printer.
I think the parent is misremembering Kay’s point a little.

It’s not that people didn’t catch on to the idea that the printing press could make books cheaper/more portable because they weren’t so laborious to create. That much was obvious about its utility.

Kay’s point as I remember was that, at least initially, automation of previous tasks is all they wanted to do with it. They got this great new machine that opened up tons of possibilities, but all they used it for was to make faster the same thing they were doing before. But we all know rather than saving some monks some time, what the printing press really did was fundamentally transform society. That’s what people missed, and it’s something people keep missing about transformative technologies, even today.

In his book Mindstorms (which every programmer needs to read), Seymour Papert makes the same observation about computers when they were introduced in classrooms; he says that instead of unlocking the full potential of those machines, educators just used them to automate activities they were doing before - times tables, essay writing, drawing graphs, etc. Very few people realized the potential at the time, and most still don’t.
A good way to get blackballed at most high-end sushi places in Tokyo, is to mention the words "california roll," within earshot of the chef.
I smell a terminator...
Sometimes when I'm running the extractor I may at the same time have the door to the living room open and the kitchen window open and running the living room wood stove at maximum - if I do, it sucks so much air from the room that the ventilator in the kitchen doesn't get a chance: The stove takes air via the kitchen window and goes straight past the ventilator even if at max, and into the living room. Where the detector sniffs enough to notice.

A rare situation of course, but it has happened to me a handful of times over the years (and also the opposite - ventilator in kitchen running at max, kitchen window closed, living room wood stove going, the vent sucks smoke from the living room wood stove and the smoke detector goes off).

As to the other comment - my ventilator doesn't have a carbon filter and I have little experience with those. I recon it will remedy some of the problems with re-venting back into the room compared with the alternative (using nothing). And I've seen vents in Japan with carbon filters, or at least something similar - but they vent outside, not inside. I wonder though about all the other kind of fumes from cooking, the metal-grid "filter" in my vent gets quite greasy and needs to be washed and cleaned now and then.
Agent K: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. --Men in Black
Can someone please transcribe what "Speaker prompt" in Example #1 is really saying? I can't get "When I love making babies" out of my head!
I reduced speed to 0.5X and understood the final, "maybe suspended but".
I read the articles and books that interest me.

Blogs are easier to consume, but obviously you cannot expect every author (especially the tecnnical ones) to be a proficient and solid writer or to have paid editors and reviewers.

The problem with many books is that you realize they are crap halfway through the investment. The investment for blogs is much smaller.
I have a gas cooker which was already installed when I moved into my currentl home. I don't particularly care whether I'm cooking on a gas flame, an induction ring or an old fashioned electric element - but at a time when we keep hearing about the risk of rolling power cuts, I care more that I can still heat up food and water even when the power's out.
What with the "if you can do it we can do it better" vibe from Apple about Sony over the last 30 years, the clock on Apple launching theirs is ticking...
I don't believe anything digital anymore for quite a while. Heck, pictures have been staged and faked since the beginning of photography. Modern tech just makes it easier.

Maybe, just maybe, human society will move back to personal interaction, since apparently you cannot trust call, voice and video, anymore in the future.
I think Hawaii was historically the largest producer of pineapple in the US, which may explain the association.
The "fooling here" is "people wanting TTS to sound human". And obvious step for that is making the AI infer human voice traits from existing humans
Would You Sell Your Extra Kidney?
Ask HN: Good reviews for front-end devtools?
We've released an SDK (sdk.livecycle.io) that helps front-end teams collaborate better and do reviews faster by adding a Figma-like review experience to PR preview environments.

I'm looking for people in the FE/Jamstack community who are open to reviewing the product.

Are there people you know of/follow that do a great job with these kinds of reviews?

Does anyone here fit that description?

Open to compensating the relevant reviewers for their time (but not their opinions... those have to be authentic :-)).
TIA!
Yes, there's definitely an uncanny valley effect on these voices. There's something subtly not right about them, and I suspect if you were to hold a conversation with one, you'd catch on that something was wrong.

The uncanny valley makes it more spooky to me. Like a reanimation sort of thing.
I wish I could do this, as books are far more rewarding. However I keep getting distracted by regular browsing & SM.
The question is whether you want to make money in the short term or in the long term. You can do a lot of things that will increase profits for a few years but kill the company long term.
The paper about the transformer architecture was published in 2017 [1]. My understanding is that it took a few years, but we are now seeing the results of that breakthrough.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
You can still

1. Ignore voice messages

2. Ask pointed questions to any live caller, esp. one calling from a new number and asking for money...
Most gas stoves in the US don’t get anywhere near as hot as you need for wok hei. I just have a propane powered burner that I use outdoors when I wan’t restaurant style stir fry. It’s oodles more powerful than the gas stove and is safely outdoors.

For stuff that needs wood, outdoor grills and smokers work fine.
Yeah, I tried it circa 2007 or 2008 so I’d easily believe that was significantly improved by 2014.
Good enough ADC/DACs are so cheap and plentiful I don't even know why you're even mentioning them in same sentence
Not in politics they aren't. There was an incredibly high bar to clear for the Alex Jones libel lawsuit to succeed.
you should not. imitation crab is invented to be able to sell low grade crab. they just blend whatever they have, add mixture of aromas and extenders to hide this and to standardize the taste. like chicken mcnuggets basically. it is not poison, and i dont think it's unhealthy, but they rip you off hard
and yet AI has actual use cases %)
It’s very concerning how ubiquitous this very soon to be insecure authentication factor is.

https://www.fidelity.com/security/fidelity-myvoice/overview

https://www.schwab.com/voice-id

https://blogs.perficient.com/2016/04/18/3-benefits-of-vangua...

https://www.chase.com/personal/voice-biometrics
Uh I understand. I thought this efficient program would be pretty useful as for the speed.
E-bikes are importantly much lighter than scooters / mopeds. They also use some of your own power - often about 50%.
>> Tracking your humidity […]

> I know nothing about the product other than seeing some enthusiasm for it on HN, but writing like this would typically be enough for me to discount purchasing anything from the company.

There is a bunch of research on which things grow (or do not grow) at various humidity levels, and having your structure be in the 40-60% range tends to help in reducing various things you don't want to grow. See Figure 1:

* https://www.ashrae.org/file%20library/technical%20resources/...

Also:

* https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/humidity-health-and-ster...

* https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/bad-advice-about-indoor-...
*The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.*

The Economist, December 4, 2003

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I think formats are better suited to express certain types of ideas than others ("the medium is the message").
Blogposts tend to be ideal to express fairly short, singular ideas.
Books should develop an entire thought system and connect various ideas, which take much longer, both in producing and consuming.
The range of what you can express is also much more expanded, since you need the person to be in the right state of mind to understand or accept an idea; with a book, you can slowly lead them to that state.

Compared to a few years ago, I don't remotely have the same enthusiasm I could have for blogposts, and on the contrary I often find the writing style to be irritating -- especially hyperlinks-rich ones, which break the flow of thought, like internalized distractions. Yet I've also started to write my own blogposts because there are some ideas that I wanted to express in that form and did not find on the internet.

My guess, based on my own experience: you have reaped what you could from the ideas that can conveniently be expressed in blogposts, and it would be very hard to find new ones that would enrich your worldview. You have to go deeper, thus find the format that is more suitable for this.
Here is one I did a while ago, this is the colored version (so not the smallest)
Still under 1024bits which was my goal

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I tried Whisper on an admittedly very challenging task (live translate Albanian to English subtitles), and it failed miserably. Went back and saw it had a 44% error rate for that language.

Might give it another go on an easier task.
No because I know as technology advances, security advances.
is this tech usable in any way? without releasing the code or the model how is this not vaporware?
Like you're saying, there's tools for that. Google autocompletes "은행 설치" (bank installation) to "은행 설치 프로그램 삭제" (bank installed programs removal) and the very first link immediately is the homepage of the tool you're talking about, so it doesn't require much inside knowledge to use. Of course the majority of people doesn't bother with this but quite a lot of people do. Even if many of those do so for non-security reasons, e.g. gamers who are afraid the crapware will slow their computer down.
I would be interested in this too. All of the wealthy people get the best deals!
What kind of tools were needed for building CLI apps? Or do you mean for packaging those apps for end users, e.g. PyInstaller and equivalent?
> I never really thought that rational trig was worth all the effort - regular math seems to have plenty of utility even if you think it is built on shaky philosophical foundations

For those familiar with "normal" (irrational?) trig, it's certainly an extra effort to learn, and may hinder communication, which gives a poor cost/benefit ratio.

For those unfamiliar with "normal" trig (e.g. not reaching that stage in school, or having later forgot it all), then rational trig certainly seems easier to learn and understand. I also like the way it generalises, e.g. to hyperbolic space (relativity), by simply changing the dot-product.
This is important and relevant. I was into AI already in the late 1990s when symbolic AI was all the rage, and we had just passed the first AU winter. Technology like "Creatures" was again amazing people , NN also sparked new interest, but things did not progress as much as we had hoped in the last 30 years.

GPT is great, as they say, it's a great bullshit generator. It's the right direction , but it's just that.
Yes, I have read :help.
Obligatory Burnistoun reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAu-DDlINs

But I'd be interested to see what its reliability is like on various types of Scottish accent.
With all the (deserved) ridicule Germany gets for our failed digitalization efforts, we use public/private key pairs for our taxes, and IIRC even our national ID supports some PKI thing (not sure how that works exactly, never had any use for my ID’s online features, doesn’t seem widespread)
I keep seeing comments along these lines. It doesn’t “make things up”. It outputs text under the objective function of maximizing probability of the token being outputted as “making sense” on some criteria. So, actually, it is biased towards not making things up. Occasionally, it hallucinates. I suspect we’ll see subsequent versions hallucinate less and less.
Possibly. I'm certainly excited by it, but unless there are patents involved (for all I know there might be, but I've not heard anything about that either way), I'd say 2022's headline AI look like they will be the next spreadsheet or the next spell-check/grammar-check rather than the next Google: any software that takes less than a few million to implement, is a race to the bottom with regard to monetisation.
I find that articles and blogs are good for questions, books are good for answers - or at least an attempt at that answer.

Sometimes you'll find an article that is as good as a book but other times I read a book proceeding an article and then wish the author would have started by reading some books themselves.

I find other long form content like podcasts or filmed presentations can sometimes hit that quality mark of books too.

Articles / tweets are good for learning the name of a concept I've never heard of.

Books / podcasts / YouTube are a good way to deep dive on the actual concept itself.