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Web3/NFT/Crypto promises: Very clever and advanced tech, People will stop using the old stuff because they hate the government and want to save pennies.

Web3/NFT/Crypto realities: using it is expensive and hard, scams left and right and the government actually arrives but doesn't remedy the damages. People are not in to save pennies on transactions but to get rich quick.

DALL-E/ChatGPT promises: A statistical model that can generate text and images that are impressive but not always accurate. Also, the tech is not that magical, we just used so much data to train it.

DALL-E/ChatGPT reality: Wows everyone, people actually use it tirelessly for writing code, creating artwork, recreationally etc.

We will probably hit the limits soon and won't have GAI next year but the stuff already delivered is already useful. The crypto stuff might become useful but its nowhere near the hype.
More samples available on their github page:

https://valle-demo.github.io/

Personally, I find that their samples aren't near anything I'd call "dangerous". I cross-compared the baseline examples to the VALL-E ones when the paper dropped, and found several that were garbled in the usual robotics sounding TTS failures.

Probably a good thing that people are getting alarmed before a true indistinguishable voice cloner exists, though.
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> Sometimes making the cinematics wasn't a core competence of the studio working on the game, so VFX or animation studios would be contracted to do this.

That explains why FFX's cinematics had different character models compared to in-game designs.
Resource recommendation for this thread! https://runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html

Been working on my French for a few years (~B1) and found Wesley's approach to be a really nice framework. I'm not using it 100%, but in general a combo of Duo, podcasts, Italki/tutoring, and a cahier/workbook works wonders.

Certainly enough to be able to wander into r/Quebec or r/France and follow conversations, collaborate with French coworkers (productively, but with errors), etc.

Side note: IMO the old Duolingo tree was better, particularly if you already knew -how- to learn languages (even if you've never retained one). If you put in the raw hours and know what you're looking for, it does stick.

New Duolingo...I think might work well for folks starting from the beginning. The changeover absolutely burned how I was using it, so while it was an important pillar early on, now it's much less so for me.

Using desktop+keyboard, reading it aloud, etc. is a must.
That movie holds up so incredibly well.
I got some Electrolux thing with HEPA filters. It looked nice, was on sale, and didn't do terrible in the tests I could find. The filters are expensive, though - probably unnecessarily so, and the app integration thing is kind of iffy. I have a lingering suspicion that if I replaced the filters with something "unapproved" it wouldn't start, and I hate that sort of thing.

But maybe I'm just being paranoid. There was some sort of notice about source availability on request, so I think it uses GPL software in there somewhere.

In short, I should have done better research myself. But at least it works.
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This is really neat!

Threw it in my .zshrc right away. Thank you sir.
yap... same here
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Sure. But cooked meat also generally does not contain anything that is especially bad for you like sugar. Unprocessed meat is a healthy thing to eat. It’s not that controversial. If you’re eating meat and some vitamin c you’re not going to be deficient in anything.

There are plenty of fine vegetarian options too of course. Although some people will struggle with anemia and protein deficiency.
That's true. I showed him the Doodle about Jerry Lawson (https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-bir...) and he loved it, spent quite some time creating some levels.

At Christmas, he got Mario Maker 2, and he's completely crazy over it.

I think it's something I can help him make progress and take his enthusiasm as a fuel for his knowledge. Maybe he'll stay on and learn a ton, or at least learn the basics, whatever he wants, I'll be fine with it :)
Now it's a different kind of broken as HTTP redirects to HTTPS and refuses to connect due to HSTS mismatch.
Agree! That is why I did an Ask HN sometime back:

"Ask HN: Relatively less known but good blogs?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258458 (6 points, 5 comments)

It did not get the number of responses I hoped for. But as a rule I avoid anything coming from mass blogging platforms like medium, substack, devto and similar sites. They may occasionally have good articles but most of the articles from these sites are poor and self-promotional. I would love to find a directory or search engine where I can search for good blogs maintained on independent websites by independent people.

I did another Ask HN now to collect links to some good articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310222
https://gif.ski should give you higher quality and smaller file sizes.
As others have said, books and articles have a different purpose and audience. I enjoy reading books. But there are many, many good blogs and online periodicals that offer quality that you would not want to find in a book. For instance...

What I don't enjoy - and have quickly learned to avoid - is this certain type of non-fiction book that ought to be an article or blog post. They're easy to find now, they're usually just shy of or right at 300 pages, they have a catchy core idea and they tend to expound on that idea about as much as a blog post would. The rest is just there to service the notion of having a book. Ugh. They were I think a bigger problem 3-4 years ago, but maybe that's because I've gotten better at avoiding them.
I read an awful lot of books. Blogs - rarely, mostly glance over.
Are the books you read similar in subject to the blog posts you read? I bet they are not.

To me it sounds like you are bored or tired of reading about the same material. It's burnout really. It might be the simple that there isn't much new or interesting material in your area of interest and most blog posts are rehashing the same info you already know.

Taking a break is fine. Maybe its time to explore hobbies you've been interested in perusing but have not yet had the time.
the height of unobtainable was just a couple of weeks ago, and it lasted for almost a year in which rpilocator was only showing a few shops in the world selling a few dozen pis in a different form factor you are looking for at a time.
Does this mean I could finally speak English without my heavy accent?
That or an even cheaper CH341A (which is what I use).
For those who don't know, the woman playing his mother is "Vasquez" from James Cameron's previous film, Aliens.
Shout out to my home town in the center of Pennsylvania Dutch culture.
"Swiss" would mean melted cheese
https://archive.ph/onBbO
Sigh.. Now we'll need voice changers when calling people/institutions we don't trust
Some topics move to fast. Until someone wrote a book, blogs sometimes are the only source of insight.

The day after stable diffusion appeared people were already blogging about it, long form writing can never be that fast…

Even worse, blogs often are the only free source of insight, with books and papers locked behind paywalls.
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Hard to get more elitist than our politics and economy are now at the height of digital interconnection. The liberal democratic revolutions and popular democratic swell of the US labor movement under FDR all happened without the internet. A return of social connection to the community would be very much to our political benefit.
You can write one good book, and it's fine. Sure, people may ask you to write another, and one book is not a career as a writer, but if the book is good it can stand on its own and be read and enjoyed and learned from for decades.

You need to write one blog post a week, minimum. Three a week, daily even. For years and decades. If you don't regularly publish a new post, your blog withers, and if you stop entirely, your blog dies.

It's hard to have that many new things to say, let alone things of value.
How interesting. And inconsistent!
Quite the opposite. The v3 camera does not support the old proprietary drivers, current versions of pi OS ship with open source drivers by default.

It seems Raspberry Foundation didn't like the old driver any more than we did.
Yep. The value/utility of the underlying technology doesn't really matter. The scammers will just switch to using whatever buzzwords are most hip and eventually people will associate the buzzword more with the scammers than the technology itself. This was taken to the extreme with cryptocurrency post-2015 where most people never even had an actual interaction with cryptocurrency but believe they know what it is from all the tangentially related scams they heard ads or news about.

The utility of AI can be real, just as the utility of bitcoin is, but it'll be drowned under things like "Quantum AI trading platform" or "NFT"s in the public perception.
Another example: you have a printer, a printer server, and N clients connected to the server. You send a capability to the clients that grants them usage of the printer. That capability allows them to print at certain time in black and white only, but the marketing department gets a capability that allows them to print in color.

Your customer comes to the office comes and wants to use the printer while he’s there, so you use your capability to send them a capability that will give them access to the printer (b/w only still, they can’t get color because you can’t get color) for an hour. However their capability is restricted such that they will not be able to grant anyone else access to the printer
Sounds like you need to get another job. Nothing wrong with that.

You could try to communicate this to your existing boss, but it's likely to be much simpler, and more guaranteed, to just find a job that is what you want.
Some various thoughts from different related threads.

I would go a step further and argue that western kitchens are built incorrectly and should be outside of the living areas and in fact outside of the building itself. My wife and I typically cook outside only using an outdoor kitchen. It is impossible to properly vent cooking pollutants from a house. You would end up having to use a commercial vent hood and with that most likely design a makeup air system to prevent a vacuum inside of the house, not worth it imo.

Induction is awesome but does have its limitations. I think it would be pretty hard to replicate wok style cooking with induction, you want not only the bottom but the sides to get hot as well. My own experience most 30+ asian households would prefer to cook on gas, younger generations just eat out and do not care. High temp searing on induction can cause premature failure in the unit. Have seen it happen across the spectrum of prices, there is just too much heat going into the induction unit. With that said, induction is indeed awesome.

If I did not have access to an outdoor kitchen I would prefer the style of a Chinese apartment kitchen. I am sure it can vary but most/all of the chinese apartments I have seen have a kitchen setup in such a way that it can be isolated from the rest of the unit. When cooking you can slide the glass doors closed, open the window and turn on the vent hood. Almost like being outside.
I come from a very creative family, but even I can see the writing on the wall. Join any Discord server for a high quality image network and you will see incredible art pieces appear all the time based on someones description on what they want. Here is a random image I found: https://cloud.nwcs.no/index.php/s/TmzWzBW6fae4pkp

And this is very important: We haven't had these for a very long time. Imagine what they can do in 10 years? Or 6 months?

What about ChatGPT, imagine it in 10 years? Every single task that simply requires reiterating known information can be replaced if desired. That doesn't mean I desire it. But I also know what kind of world we live in. The economy comes first, people second.

That people are angry I can completely understand. I can also understand trying to argue that "this means nothing", and "its a grift", like someone working in oil hearing about climate change. Personally I am in awe that this is possible, but also sad at what will inevitably happen.
Ok this got deep quickly, but fine by me. I agree there are plenty of things to criticize with our present systems, be they democratic or autocratic. I mention "autocratic" only to show that one can't easily dispel that latter form of government yet (on a global scale it is verily on the rise again). Wage labor economy: yes, true representative democracy: no. That ideal only exists to a some degree in a relative few countries that have no beef with the current sole superpower.

As for disruptions in social/technological matters, there is no denying that we live in interesting times, but as always it is perilous to ascertain if most relevant things are the same, or some things are the same, or no such things are the same as before (sameness is notoriously difficult to assess, at the extreme one might argue that all discernible things are ultimately if not categorically different).

We can however unequivocally state that the argument (that things are now categorically different) has been heard before, many times, and has always turned out to be largely false - self interested deceptions even. Recent history has the "new economy" around the turn of the century claiming that everyone would from now be rich because internet, even more recently the crypto currency claims of a new social order. Going back a few hundred years we had the emerging laissez faire economists claiming that a totally free economy without state interventions would lead to world peace, a claim parroted by the socialists (socialism would lead to peace). Later the women's rights movement made the same claim - if only women would be in charge then ...

Make what one will out of this, to me it is but one long list of falsehoods and half truths, and I've personally swiveled back to a position which is close to that of classical economy: humans are essentially (in a statistical mean sense) self interested, and will from that simple fact come into conflict with both other humans, the environment and the common good - and will skew everything in their perceived favor unless there are appropriate checks and balances. This is the ultimate factual circumstance that I see no sign of changing in the foreseeable future - through technological breakthroughs or anything else. We are still essentially in the age of the founding fathers in that regard.

As for peace, the only path that has proven to be successful is the ad hoc and "organic" creation of ever larger political units: neighboring villages that were at each others throats during prehistory made friends under the rule of warlords, warlords became friends under the rule of a feudal power, feudal powers became friends after the conquest by empires, empires morphed into global trade organizations that requires global legal frameworks to work efficiently. That in my mind is incidentally the breakthrough for global peace that one might hope for in the next few hundred years - if we can keep the belligerents on all sides in sufficient check while global inequalities in power and wealth are evened out through ever more trade and international cooperation.

But right now the odds seem to be that we blow everything up before that TBH.
Here in the UK, 'water safety 2 award' [1] includes swimming in clothes.

So if parents send a kid to swimming lessons for a few years, they'll end up doing it some time around age 10. (There are several different sequences of swimming awards, so it's no the second thing you learn despite the 2 in the name)

[1] https://www.swimming.org/learntoswim/swim-england-water-safe...
Seems like a great idea for building a product :)
Lawyers don't exist to decide who wins a case. It's all about making the other side show their work, prove that they have valid evidence, it was collected legally, etc. An AI might be able to find flaws in the work of a sloppy human who wasn't expecting opposition, but will it know when to stop grasping at increasingly-inane straws? If it develops a reputation for subtly misrepresenting certain laws when pressed to find some answer, after all the easy options have run out, wouldn't it be kicked out of the courtroom for wasting the legal system's time, unless you have a team of programmers on standby to keep writing output filters to censor it from repeating its mistakes? Human lawyers have to fix their behaviour or lose their licenses when caught repeating mistakes, malice, or misleading practices, I think, and current AI paradigms have immense trouble learning from small datasets.
There is enough non-nebulous problems it will solve.
Yeah, sometimes you can get one, however it doesn't make much sense to pay 150 Euros, or 100 for a 1GB version.
There is git-pack which compresses similar files together.
Thatsa correcto.
Thank you for suggesting it. I don't know if that's something he's looking into, or if he wants to do more things related to code (I'm currently trying to have a clear understanding of what he's expecting).
Maybe the program could detail its decision process if it is sufficiently advanced
The headline does a poor job at explaining the article. It’s not really focused on notifications grabbing your attention. It’s about having to cycle through multiple apps just to get your tasks done.

For example, someone asks you (on Slack) a question about a document (on Google Docs). You open the doc, but the part you need is referenced in a Jira ticket. You open Jira and it says to look at Confluence.
I am in very similiar position right now, and I have decided to bite the bullet and drop all non individual contributor responsibilities. I'm not yet sure how it will go but it's my #1 priority to arrange it with Cxx. I know this was supposed to feel like "step up" but it's not who I am. I don't aspire to great managers, I respect people like Carmack. I want to be the best and most productive engineer, that's where I have most fun. If the money is similiar, that's what it's about.
Maybe governments finally start implementing public-key cryptography with their chip-enabled IDs and passports?
This just isn't the case. People are being productive with AI right now.

Crypto ran out of excuses for having no actual products outside of itself a long time ago. That is, apart from the money laundering and grift that it was used for from day one.
To use and update designs in CAD
Don't forget Larry Wall's page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/ :-)
Yes, Part 1 [1] is by a different author and was linked to in the first sentence of TFA.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771
I'm half agreeing with you. Clearly, he wants to spend some time with me, that's for sure, but he's also passionate about video games (who isn't?) and he truly want to learn.

On my end, I see this as a win-win; I get time to spend with my kids, share my passion and allow him to learn things he likes. If it leads to him not wanting to do this, we can find something else to share.
I find the “single asset class deep dive” section has good metrics.

For Canadian stocks, the range of returns over 10 year periods has been 2.7% to 11% per year —- ie, no losses over that holding period.

For emerging market stocks however, there were periods where a 10 or 15 year period wasn’t enough to eliminate losses. You needed to hold for 20 years to not lose money.

It’s an interesting way to look at volatility of different asset classes.
Try audiobooks, I usually listen for 30 minutes before sleep. It’s not great for math and cs but philosophy and history work well.
It doesn't have to sound human. Fluent, ok, but human?

But no matter what, it's unnecessary to make a tool that can copy anyone's voice. That just lowers the threshold for abuse, while not adding almost nothing of value.
“Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a cybernetic organism?”
I find marks tricky to work with. I've made several attempts to get used to them over the years and it never really stuck or felt intuitive.
It could be a clever way to obscure one/both "wrong" numbers by hiding them in plain sight in a memory test... :)
One key factor which many commenters seem to be oblivious to is nurbs vs. polygons. Maya in the 90's had excellent nurbs modeling tools which made it specifically well suited for film work which required highly detailed organic models. 3D Studio Max on the other hand was all about polygons which made it the weapon of choice for video game studios which had to squeeze every last bit of performance from the game engines and PC's of that era. It wasn't until the mid aughts that Maya incorporated sub-division surfaces when it's use really took off in the games industry. Japan as it's often the case was a bit of an outlier as they were a pretty big market for Softimage/XSI. Valve being valve was also a Softimage customer. They even partnered with Autodesk to release a custom XSI version specifically for modding their own games.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Softimage_Mod_Tool
Tibees: No privacy in the 4th dimension (YouTube Short)
I remember begging my parents for one of these things (Cybiko Xtreme) and absolutely loving it for quite a while - until I started to feel bad that I couldn't do any of the networked stuff since I was probably the only kid on the entire island of Ireland who had one.

edit watching through [this LGR video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VEBOseAzM) is unlocking some core memories
I went with the IKEA purifiers myself (ironically the very ones dynomight, mentioned by GP, talks about here: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/).

I've poured a couple dozen hours into researching this space, and ultimately came back with a conclusion that what matters is:

- To have a HEPA filter, and

- Something that pushes air through it, and

- If you care about VOCs (whether for health or smell reasons), add a non-shit carbon filter (I say non-shit, as apparently some vendors sell "carbon filters" that have very little activated carbon in them).

All those purifiers that claim to have 5+ different modes of filtering are, to be very charitable here, delivering at most a very tiny improvement in some scenarios, at the cost of much inflated price. It's better to spend that money on getting more air pushed through HEPA filters faster.
I have noticed the same, however my conclusion is different. Typically when you read a book, your average book has more signal than your average web article or blog post. That's because more filtering has happened, like time, editors, etc. sometimes I find good web content (mostly from the top HN posts) and I don't just scroll, but I read. When I find myself scrolling the first few lines, I immediately close the link.
I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas, but the publisher had the author pad it out to X00 pages because that's what makes their business model make sense.

I haven't fully sworn off blogs, but I will skim anything brought to my attention on Medium, a corporate site, or from search results. My default assumption for these is that I'm reading content marketing and not an actual blog post.

Tutorials are probably the most information dense things these days. Followed by podcasts, although the content marketers are actively trying to corrupt that medium.
So now scammers will have to first scrape your & your families social media, then run that through ChatGPT to answer any questions.
>I wonder, would this virtual machine be hand crafted or auto generated?

Every proper obfuscator with virtualization should be auto-generated. Of course, when I reverse it, then my scripts are also automatized as much as they can be.