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Modern digital sound processing allows the flawless recreation of a piano, and even to create an instrument with qualities no piano built in the old style could have. Everything, and more. Cheaper, probably portable, and it doesn't require tuning. In fact, most people who play the piano now play on such instruments, most of the time.

Yet some people still buy actual pianos. Because there's an art and craft and history to pianos, and they're majestic, slightly intimidating machines; and they're expensive status symbols. A tube amp for a guitar is much the same.
I came to comment about Dalibor as well - amazing youtube channel. Recommended viewing for anyone who loves home-ish-scale, high-quality manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA

He's got to be one of the world's experts on nixie tube manufacturing, at this point.
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> However, if this is true, it seems pretty cool if I can train a GPT4-like model for only $300.

Not train, but fine-tune a model that Facebook spent millions of dollars training.
>bass and total output are definitely going to be lacking with that $500 system

Definitely. OP was talking about bookshelves. Personally I'd definitely want a sub to go with any bookshelf speaker.

>Most of the sound we hear is reflected so it helps if speakers are doing the right thing in as wide of a cone as possible. Paying more tends to get you better performance in this regard but it's a rather weak correlation.

There's differing opinions/preferences on that, and what you might prefer will also depend on the room size.

What experts generally do agree on is that the dropoff should be smooth with no peaks or resonances off-axis.

The classic examples I'm aware of are Revel vs Kef.

Revel aims for wider dispersion than Kef but other than that, they're pretty similar in terms of specs, both are very linear on-axis with a smooth dropoff.
That magical thinking only works, though, if the object in question is special in some way. If it can be had for a dime a dozen at any time from any local corner store, the object loses its magic.
At the right time. That last part is more or less luck (and you need to have already done the other two)
Oh boy. Can’t wait to see the gun “experts” chime in here with this type of article on Hacker News for something that states already passed.
I don't agree. There are multiple package managers for Python which have at least comparable feature sets with npm and yarn. And in the end, pip and conda are biting me a lot less often than npm and yarn.

It's not just "flakiness" of the package maintainers. The basic problem is that there is no single standard javascript package, and no package manager, especially npm can solve this.
But the model doesn't have any agency.

GPT isn't spitting out novels in the style of J.K. Rowling and sending them to publishers - a human is.

GPT being instructed to tell a Harry Potter story itself is no more infringing than a child asking a parent for a made up Harry Potter bed time story. They equally infringe and undermine new or potential markets for copyrighted work.

The question is "what do you do with the material?" If a human took the output of GPT writing as J.K. Rowling or a parent took their collected Harry Potter bedtime stories - those are equally problematic.

If I was to take a portrait of Marilyn Monroe and send it through a plugin called Warholize in Photoshop ( https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/hub/guides/c... ) , it's not the plugin or photoshop that is infringing - it would be me, the human who created an infringing work. If I print it out and hang it on my wall, that didn't particularly impact on the income for the Warhol estate nor deprive them of new markets. If I print out copies of it and sell them - then that is a different matter.

The question is what you - the human with agency - do with the infringing work after you create it. You can't blame photoshop for creating a Warhol infringing work nor can you blame GPT for writing in the style of J.K. Rowling if you instruct it to do so.
Thanks! I had somehow missed that. Feels irresponsible that it hadn't been mentioned in reporting of the changes (or maybe I missed it there too)
> Anyone smart enough to create an npm package can afford $1

I would disagree with that. If also posit that while it would put off a fair few bad actors some would be quite happy to spend that, especially if they're not spending their own money.

But ignoring that…

> You can

I can, no doubt. But would I? The being able to afford it and caring enough to are two separate issues. I suspect there are many that would make something useful, package it up so others find it convenient, then see some extra admin and think "you know want? Nah". Onboarding friction is not just a thing in B2C & B2B contexts.

(And if anyone thinks "but what about the community?": Good point, maybe I'd wait for someone in "the community" to do the admin and pay the dollar!)
You know it actually might be. Three big things it requires are Multi-Draw Indirect (looks to be available in 4.3), shader storage buffers (looks like it's also available in 4.3) and compute shaders which 4.3 should have too.

I don't know much about WebGL2 - do you happen to know if dropping the requirement to GL 4.3 would be enough to make it compatible with WebGL2?
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The center of cultural gravity has definitely shifted. In the 90's we were still firmly in the mass-market model of doing: if you saw something new in gaming it was probably through the TV or a magazine, and it was presented as some exclusive, earthshaking experience that you were buying access to like a movie ticket.

Nowadays it's much more common to learn about something through "influencer" media, and part of the appeal is not within the game content, but in the game's affordances as a virtual world: being able to play with your Discord friends or the Twitch streamer you watch, and how much it supports roleplaying and "content creation". A lot of gaming is also purely online-competitive, too, a phenomenon that relies on widespread broadband connectivity and isn't really about graphics - witness the popularity of online chess. The experiential games that hit big and stay memetic for long periods have mostly been indie lately: the AAA stuff has nice graphics and courts a certain niche, but it just washes over the market without much lasting impact.

Altogether, there are a ton of things that make it so that teenagers can be hyped, but not about the same things in the same ways. It's widely accessible stuff, and less clearly driven by the consumer-electronics relationship.
> Otherwise the entire populous will be flat earther simpletons.

At face value, this is obvious nonsense; if the entire populous was naught but simpletons, who would even introduce new concepts to them?

> challenged and evolved by critical thought

This is literally the opposite of what you are advocating for by "being told what to think". Or is it only the elite and privilege few that are allowed to think for themselves (presumably after having been groomed to produce very specific thoughts to begin with)?

Additionally, as noted by Max Planck:

> The German physicist Max Planck said that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

Science basically evolves because the the people carrying the old school of thought literally die out, leaving the ideas that are more popular with the new generation. This could lead to genuine advancement, but the obvious flipside is that you could "advance" in an untrue direction. It's not just science that is like this, you see it for example in IT as well.

My entire point is that in teaching people what to think, you create this

> simpletons

..whereby in teaching them how to think, you promote this

> critical thought

They are more or less mutually exclusive.
They changed it, it's in the archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20230330000515/https://twitterco...
Basically Mastodon is a bunch of different social networks, but you can follow/subscribe people who are using any of them. If you want your own server, you need to leave it on somewhere for it to pull messages from other people and push yours out. Otherwise, you can just pick a server and set up an account on it.

Which server you join doesn't particularly matter, but most of them offer some sort of "see all of the messages on this server" functionality, so if you pick one with a lot of people who have common interests, you'll have a better default experience.
Hey, I'm impressed by that demo video. I especially like all the nice little touches that let you grab images, paste in data, and so on.

One question I didn't see answered was: how does someone define one of these components? Does Noya infer the rules about which component to translate a user-defined shape into, or does someone have to go in and say something like "if it's the full width, and it's at the top of the screen, it's probably the navigation header"? It feels like defining the rules for page-level layout blocks, vs. fiddly little micro UI elements could get tricky.

Oh, and how do components get into the system at all? Does it have to be an off-the-shelf design system (like Chakra, which you mention supporting) that you've translated into Noya, or can I add my company's design system myself?
Rocky Linux is a rebrand of RHEL which is essentially the LTS that Fedora feeds into.
Ah ok that's interesting. I'll need to convert the current images to another format and reupload.
Is GPT4All available on Apple Silicon?
I think building this as a tool on top of Postgres was a very good idea. Is there anything special Retool DB does on top of Postgres or is it basically just a nice UI for interacting with your tables?
They released the source and are planning to release weights. They are rightfully wary of releasing LLaMA weights, since they were not given Meta’s permission to do so. So they will release deltas. You will have to provide your pet LLaMA yourself.
You're saying conservatives are openly calling for the extinction of the jews?
Interesting, all conservatives? Most of them?
> We plan to release the model weights by providing a version of delta weights that build on the original LLaMA weights, but we are still figuring out a proper way to do so.
Hard to definitively claim victory for either side in the battle you mention. The Chinese outnumbered the US 4 to 1 and still got blasted, the Chinese unit was out of commission for months following the battle while the US forces maintained unit integrity.

In the years since the gulf between capabilities has grown, and especially seeing how Russia can't crush Ukraine using castoff NATO gear China will be wise to not poke the bear.
Does it? If you type

echo "leave your wife"

Into a terminal, does the terminal want you to leave your wife?
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The associated landing page for this was still up until fairly recently: https://web.archive.org/web/20220819085123/https://tools.goo...
Maybe that’s your clue that your idea is bad then? YC likely has decided it’s not in their interest to badmouth your idea, but if you are making the 20th data pipeline company in the same batch, maybe the smart thing to do is take a step back and ask yourself “is this really what I want to spend 5 years in?”

From what I hear in the YC YouTube videos, it’s clear that the partners quickly form an image of how much brutal feedback you can take and measure their responses accordingly. My suspicion is that they are unable to gauge who’s good at that brutal feedback until you’re well into the program and they would rather have 100 grifters for that one golden founder who can truly take feedback. I suspect that one founder gets a very different treatment from everyone else. Clearly OP was not that 1 in hundred.

If you approach YC with this mindset, you can make a decision before you even join whether this is worth it for you - are you ready to easily take brutal feedback and adjust or are you like OP going to double down on marketing or whatever you think is the key to succeeding? In the latter case just don’t bother I guess!
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I'm not sure most codebases are unique enough for that. There will certainly be some of that at places that are doing new things, but for the average online service backend or frontend app programming tasks, I think things like Copilot will see enough and get trained well enough out of the box to be pretty one-size-fits-all.

There will be a lot of business pressure towards using the "good enough" out of the box ones too. If you've got a team of less than a hundred people, rolling your own "datasets, LORA plugins, APIs for AI, vector databases, monitoring, etc" is a multi-person team and significant chunk of new expense. So is the incremental gain their for small to medium teams with relatively "standard" problems?

Kinda like self-hosting at that scale vs using a cloud vendor.
Hello! Love it (webhooks are traditionally an unloved but crucial system component)! How would you say you compare to and differentiate from https://svix.com?

Edit: Thank you for the reply! Wishing you much success.
I only recently learned about the MPL and I'm a fan. It seems to be a really nice alternative to GPLv3 and LGPL and offers a lot of convenience while still being copyleft.
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For those preferring a textual treatment, LRB reviewed Mullaney's book in 2018:

<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n05/jamie-fisher/the-lef...>

Discussed at the time on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17720565> (27 comments).
but how could you guarantee the pretrained model haven't seen those benchmarks? And the baselines you are comparing to (chatgpt, bard) haven't as well? Cuz those benchmarking datasets are also collected from Internet right?
These all sound like marketing tactic problems, not fundamental "build something valuable" problems.
I don’t know why gun control advocates keep using the same strategy they’ve been for the last 15 years. 25 out of 50 states have passed some form of constitutional carry. Florida will officially make it a majority of the states. Every year gun control loses more ground, on average, outside of a few places like Massachusetts, New York, and California (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Right_to_Carry,_time...)

Gun ownership skyrocketed drug COVID and brought a ton of politically diverse people into the hobby. IMO it’s a losing issue and if politicians want to keep winning votes from moderates they would do best to distance themselves from it.
Pulling the vacuum while the tube is being sealed is I think the most amazing thing.
There may have been write latency SLAs on the table that they were concerned about. Or maybe they had to wait until a maintenance window to release it.
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This. If your based in Australia then Australia. If tax/bureaucracy is your reason for not choosing home then Singapore is the closest "default" country for this part of the world.
I remember watching a documentary long ago about the history of computing. In it, someone expressed skepticism of transistor-based integrated circuits because unlike vacuum tubes, the transistors in an IC couldn't be replaced when they failed.

I've replaced a couple ceiling sockets with panel-type LED fixtures and they're going strong years later. Perhaps they'll fail eventually, but their lifespan has far exceeded anything I've screwed into a socket, so the increased replacement effort/cost has already paid for itself.
Wow, that seems blatantly corrupt. You shouldn't need a 3rd-party agency to submit forms to a government agency. In Japan, you just submit applications yourself. There are immigration lawyers you can use, but AFAICT they're only needed if you have some really special circumstances, or you're just too lazy (or busy) to handle the paperwork yourself. For most people, you just fill out the form, get your supporting documentation, then go wait in line at the government office for half a day.
Linux is often the best tool for the job, but the BSDs have their place.

FreeBSD is a very good server OS. It supports ZFS and Dtrace right out of the box. Also it supports both binary packages via pkg and source based packages via the ports system. It also feels lighter on resources than typical Linux distros which is nice for older systems.

OpenBSD is an excellent router OS thanks to PF. It is more powerful than Linux for this purpose. Also the security track record for the default install is pretty much unrivaled.

NetBSD runs on a lot of obscure hardware that Linux doesn't support. It is the best tool for the job for reviving old otherwise unusable hardware. pkgsrc is also a very cool package management system that is not only supported on every architecture that NetBSD supports, but several other operating systems like Linux, macOS, and Solaris/OpenSolaris/Illumos/etc.
Do we? If consider the systems our forebears created to hold the agency.

The incentives of capitalism and government determine if or how climate change will be solved, and I have approximately zero agency in that
It makes one wonder, are VCs just complete amoral mercenaries? One would hope not.
> Cases are no longer clogging the courts

I live in Oregon and that's not true: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-23/oregon-pu...

> we have people using in my neighborhood park and on public transit. I stopped taking the train after a ride where we had to evacuate because someone was smoking fentanyl (apparently even the second-hand smoke can affect a person).

This happens regardless of the legality. The big question is whether they can be encouraged to take their usage to safe sites, which is why the whole encampments thing that people don't want was key to a plan involving decriminalization. That's to say, the big picture matters in harm reduction, not the individual steps. We have a large system of incentives that drives the industrial prison complex that have all been in place a long time. You won't see material improvements with one law passed.

> You seem to support it, how would you address the externalities?

The first step is getting our police count up; we had 300 cops for the entire city and were only answering active violent calls. They've hired 300 more. The next step is getting the people who are ready to get off the streets off by opening up the transitional sites that the city and county are fighting over. After all that, we need to invest in non-12 step recovery centers for anyone battling chemical addiction. What you're left with after that is manageable.

I say all of this as someone who has lost a lot of friends to the opioid crisis and has watched Portland's meth problem first hand. I watched heavy-handed policies fail time and time again, deity-focused 12 step programs try to shame people into recovery and fail, and watched as forces of power used those failures to fuel a drug war and prison complex that rivaled no other country on Earth. This isn't just about doing things differently; it's about stopping the hard-nose crap that got us here with no end in sight and actually addressing the problem. The journey will be painful as the journey to here has been painful but it'll be worth it.
Mastodon is most definetly not the future. I think Twitter will still be a thing in 10 years while Mastodon (and even ActivityPub/Fediverse for that matter) will still be a niche or failed idea.
We've been using Gather, it's not the same for sure but it's quite cool to emulate the sense of spatial togetherness & adds some fun elements.
I am raising for playwhitelabel dot com with following stats - revenue US$16K+ (since May, 2022), paid users 120+ (including presales), and don't have a product yet.

As a 2-person team, looking forward to growing with a product, and a bit of capital, YC will suite us. But it's highly unlikely we will even get an interview. I wonder why all those later stage YC companies are being taught SuS content.
This "vision" has been gradually creeping into other aspects of life too, and it's called "authoritarianism".

It scares those in power to give that power away, because then they may not be able to corral and persuade them in the desired direction (i.e. to be milked for $$$) as easily. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and all the others aren't really acting in your best interests; they just pretend to do so and persuade with superficially convincing arguments, so they can get you to trust them.
That's the thing, tubes used to be a dime a dozen. Just not anymore once transistors took over.

I'm not saying it's not nostalgia, it could very well be....
I entirely left twitter, and 15k+ followers account, when they deprecated the html version and never went back.

It seemed at the time that twitter was beginning to crumble already as they were unable to maintain such a simple feature, I couldn't imagine at the time that they would fail to even maintain the API.
Edit, I’m not gonna get into it
Yes, because pianos are still viewed as special, which is in turn because they are expensive to buy, hard to transport, take up a lot of space, and requires regular service (tuning). But tubes lack (or could potentially be made to lack) all of these qualities, which is why it would be risky to try to make tubes more cheaply available.
He may or may not have inspired some research into purchasing my own glassworking equipment...
> Plenty of animals kill themselves to beget offspring (for two short examples, all sorts of male insects and arachnids are eaten while mating; octopuses and various other cephalopods die after caring for their young), or just to protect others in their group (bees and ants are some of the most common in this area, but many mammals are also willing to fight for their group).

How do you believe such behaviors arise? They're the same thing, result of the same optimization process - natural selection - just applied at the higher level. There is nothing in nature that says evolution has to act on individuals. Evolution does not recognize such boundaries.
Hey cool I'm surprised you found it. With the latest engine version I switched to using static images since it's a lot easier for people to quickly look through. Some improvements have been made since the video and I want to redo it once better image smoothing has been implemented.

And yes! The video was captured in real time on an Nvidia GTX 1060.
I've recently had to spend a lot of time using ChatGPT professionally, and holy hell have I found it to be entirely overblown. In my personal experience it sometimes can't even follow basic instructions.

I have an inkling that people really don't know how much of a black box the entire AI experience really is, and why that means that trust for mission-critical items is an impossible sell. I can't rely on it for anything meaningful and I'm no longer convinced I ever will.

For non-mission-critical things like code help, analysis, and hell even observability / cost management, maybe it can eventually be a valuable resource that serves as a partner to a human. But for managing hosting, networks, deployments, builds, terminal commands? Absolutely not, absolutely never.

The "AI Teammates" part is just laughable.
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Loving this gold rush for self hosted ML models!
Is he making a difference making inefficient luxury cars? Cars and car dependent infrastructure are part of the climate change problem, regardless of whether the cars burn fossil fuels

If anything, he's using his wealth to solve the wrong problems, and has sucked up taxpayer resources to do so