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Disagree, long paragraphs are more annoying than breaking up thoughts like this. I think it's reasonable to expect a reader to continue to the next paragraph, and corrosive to start writing for poor readers (distracted, skimming, etc - let people who do this bear the risk and consequences of their actions rather than changing writing to make this behavior less risky)
I'd just like to add that I quite like your versioning of the US. I guess it's exactly version 3 that I take issue with. It seems to have abandoned principled lawmaking for an outcome-based approach. As a result it has produced a monstrous military-industrial-espionage complex that has taken actions with the widest gulf between moral posturing and moral consistency.

We need a return to deontology. Laws should be made on principles. Anything can be construed to be for the "general welfare". A wide interpretation can (and has) been used to justify awful things.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, our best climate outcomes from the IPCC all rely on DAC; a tech still in it's infancy, deployed to a wider extent than any other technology we've ever developed. This will fail. Our world will keep getting hotter and we'll resort to stratospheric sulfide injection as a temporary stopgap, but that will have consequences.
Exactly, even the areas with the most density in America don't feel the same because of poor zoning laws mostly prohibiting mixed-use areas. The problem with the US is urban planners(is there a single new walkable city since urban planners became a thing?) not density.
That is not the point. AI models should as politically ideological as vaccine or climate change research. OpenAI's stuff, LLaMA and Stable Diffusion, in my testing, are not even slightly woke unless you ask them to be woke.

But they are going to be cast as ideological threats to right wing intellectualism because some extremists on both sides latch onto them.
It's outrageous that once a great OS builder, is now resorting to pushing it's subscription services through it's OS. Imagine MacOS and iOS showing in menu ads, I hope Apple never stoops to this level.
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Do you have any reason to believe people thought that? Everyone I talked to thought it was a human generated song with an autotune like drake ai filter on the lyrics.
Coinbase has asked them many times though. The article even mentions this. They met 30 times to seek clarity on the rules.
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For some reason, this reminds me of how we used to give instructions to Indian coders in the 90s and early 2000s. You would have to spell out everything. What you got back was nearly there, but some back-and-forth was involved.

This brings back some terrible memories.
Any American city of sufficient size has many parts, some better than others. Much of Baltimore is unpleasant or dangerous, but the Mount Washington area looks suburban and is pleasant. There are dangerous and unpleasant parts of Washington, DC, and there are parts that are fine. There are some troubled places in suburbs, as well.
Yeah, after new rule rollout Tesla in one of the few manufactures still eligible for the EV subsidy. Unfortunately they made the rules too stringent focused on US manufacturing. Which is great in theory, but in todays world of global supply chains isn't exactly practical.
If you're referring to planting more biomatter, I fully agree it's not impossible, I think the sticking point really is the scale, can we theoretically leverage this to capture at a rate that matters while simultaneously not giving up our current lifestyles. ( I think the main crux of these solutions imply this even if they don't deliberately state it, the solution has to not impact people's lives "negatively' to be viable).
Using OpenAI to make an ESP32 intelligent
This just seems like goal post moving.

If all AI stuff was 500x worse than it is currently that would still be a big deal.

Tech does not stand still, with any rate of improvement this stuff will become insanely good quality.
Glad you like it! I stumbled across it yesterday while listening to a Feynman lecture with DEFCON radio in the background.

Realized the content of lectures matched well with modern techno-ambient. Grabbed some music from SoundCloud to overlay Sagan and this fell out.

Will likely do more given the positive response to this and how much fun I’ve had listening to it.
To be frank, while I preferred N900 keyboard for writing messages, I found programming on the phone to be less pleasant on N900 than it was on Neo Freerunner with resistive touch screen. I find today's capacitive screens to be a PITA for both these use cases though.
This is very subjective, but cycling does not work for me in this context.

Obviously, everyone has their own goals when getting outside on a bike, from pure leasure/entertainment to hard fitness/training sessions. I'm somewhat in between closer to training camp.

Riding for 25 minutes casually, then getting a beer and talk for an hour, then riding another 20 minutes home is not for me. But riding with the training group is problematic too - your fitness level matters. If the group rides 26 kph average for 120 km but you only can give 23 - you are going to be left behind. Dropping and continuing solo or turning earlier - I was on the receiving end of that multiple times.

Eventually you realize most optimal trainings are done solo and they are kind of meditative and enjoyable when silent. And high exertion does not allow you to talk anyway.
The problem is that you can't know what isn't good until you see evidence of bad coming out - then you rule that it shouldn't be allowed.

This is how a lot of safety regulation comes about - from a disaster or a problem that previously nobody knew or understood.

The SEC is likely operating under this sort of outlook.
| the voices afiak are pure AI with the tuning, pitch, etc done in post.

That's what I thought at first too, but the available info suggests that the AI "autotune" was done on a human reference vocal. (cf https://twitter.com/rpnickson/status/1647603043851026433)
Isn't it more like, a mediocre artist who normally wouldn't have any audience found an interesting artistic choice that generated interest?

AI and art is a hot topic at the moment, and this artist found a way to capitalize on the zeitgeist.
What was unique about the initial distribution of Bitcoin when compared to other cryptocurrencies?
I tried one kinda like this. Setting aside the extension feel of it, what I'd like to see is a move from prompt-helper to pattern language for visually reporting the process of working with the LLM, to which the LLM has parsing access.

So, let's say you can see your conversation as normal, but you can also see your actual code project as a node-based procedural design layout in an editable window. The relevant conversation details are used to draw the nodes.

You go to one node representing a bash script and click its Patterns tab and search-to-type for the community pattern, "Joe's Best Bash Practices". It's added to your quick palette and LLM offers to add similar patterns to other nodes in Nim and Pascal and ABS, but actually for ABS there's a "concept" symbol that indicates it's only going to be able to guess what you would want based on the others.

Then it offers to gradually teach you node-shorthand as you edit the project, so eventually you don't need to write any prompts, just basic shorthand syntax. Where the syntax gets clunky, or when you buy a custom keyboard just for this syntax but with a few gotchas, you can work together and change syntax to fit.

Nbdy hus lrnd shrtnd nos knda whr m gng wths.
Lifelogging is a needed counterbalance to companies and governments collecting personal data for their own purposes. No one should know more about me than I do.
To paraphrase Bill Gates, "nobody needs more than 640 square feet".
Small towns are almost always in rural areas which at least in American means some amount of trouble if you're non religious, non white, or non heterosexual.

Problem with cities isn't overpopulation, it's housing. People want to live there but there isn't enough accommodations, and there totally could be if zoning and infrastructure were properly prioritized.
Anyone remember or watch 90's TV Show Seaquest DSV. its timeline had us living in underwater stations by now.
This is the right question. It is plausible to me that this is a way of condensing a vast training set into a reduced set of high quality examples.
> The reason is because based on the research I did, I saw that trackball had a steeper learning curve and less usage preference overall, and even though vertical mice also have a learning curve, it seems to be lower. Plus, I believe it's easier to use optical tracking for other actions such as gaming.

Thanks. Those are good points. It's fun for me to see people not use to a trackball attempt to use mine. It definitely took me some time to find it 'natural' with FPS games.
It makes sense for you to target a larger audience of potential buyers.

> How do you like your trackball? Do you get any pain on your fingers or hand after using it for a while? Maybe a product to explore as a second iteration if the first version goes well :D

I love it overall. My thumb joint does get a little sore/tired after long use (nothing compared to wrist pain). So I have considered switching to one that relies on your fingers instead. Also it works on any surface so it's great if you want a 'full' mouse with a mobile device.

I would definitely recommend exploring it as an option down the road, though I'm guessing it's still a relatively niche market.

Here's wishing you success finishing and launching your product!
Not OP but I really enjoyed Jung's: Memories, Dreams, and Reflections. I haven't read any of the rest of his work so I really can't say if this is the best place to start with him but being totally new to Jung, I took a lot away from this book. The book touches on many of his theories and gives you an idea of the arc of his life which is nice but also provides great insight into Jung's inner world which is what I found most fascinating about the book. I've never read anything else quite like it.
How fungible is it? When the US banned leaded gasoline, did other countries increase their usage?

I suspect when California finishes shutting down the last coal plant, it'll probably be with local unused natural gas capacity or renewable. I don't think it's practical for the state to import coal power from separate grids or across the country. I know reducing coal usage in the US might make it cheaper to burn in coal in other parts of the world, but there's still local benefits wrt lifespan and air quality
Just to clarify, I agree with the general sentiment of your comment.

My concern, or confusion, or lack of understanding, or ignorance, or whatever you wanna call it, is less about the mechanisms of capitalism controlling distribution and moreso the sheer volume of music available. I posit that there is more well-polished music being released on a daily basis than people are capable of listening to, or that we even mathematically have the available time, as a whole, to fit into our lives. Even if we shifted the controls of distribution and such, there seems to be far more content than there are ears to hear the content, and I just don't get how we can ever expect everything worth it's weight in notes to be heard.

I understand the desire, as an artist myself, to be heard, but I also know that I'm one of millions of other people feeling the same way. If everyone's creating (and there are definitely far more creators than ever before), who's listening?

Am I crazy? Am I missing something?
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What I'm concerned about is in the graph - why the hell are 46% of consumers using BNPL for "Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories"? Forty six percent of people would rather take on debt to finance their clothes than go to a thrift store?

>It’s been helpful for Amber Kincade, who’s been using the installment option on the food delivery app Instacart.

Why, oh god WHY, are you buying delivered food on Instacart if you are so poor you have to use BNPL to stay alive? Why are you not saving money by going to the store yourself? Are people so desensitized to the idea of debt they think going into it for conveniences, or for fashion, are smart decisions?
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I use Ubuntu for work, but my gaming rig runs windows. I went through all of the applications I use on my windows pc the other day and they're all available on linux now. With proton getting as good as it is, app availability on linux, and with the annoying occasional ads coming through my windows os, I'm starting to think I won't upgrade to windows 11 when 10 stops being supported.
I recently had a junior copy paste a 20 line code block rather than add an extra 'or' to the if statement.

Hey, rule of 3 ;)

Anyways, guidelines are just guidelines, regardless of what you come up with you can break it.
the real answer is that the CFTC should just be abolished and folded into the SEC. the only reason crypto people want to be regulated byt he CFTC is that they are way less competent at catching fraud than the SEC.
Armstrong says they did, and says they met to discuss things like this. We will see what happened in reality during the course of the court case. I don't think it is wise to trust the words of any crypto actors.
Uber is going to collect the difference, not the customer.
As is you can buy a Benny the Butcher verse for like 300$. Of course it's the same verse his company is selling to everyone else.

I'm sure eventually some artists will sell licenses to AI models of their voices. It's not a "real" feature since AI will never be an exact replica.
> This is an openly illegal practice

I'm really confused by this claim, even before all of the bizarre comparison to murder.

Apple has to pick a city to allocate sales tax to. They are headquartered in Cupertino. And the "kickback" they receive is not in cash, but merely the ability to choose how some of that tax revenue is spent.

I'm willing to believe it's bad policy and should be changed, but I'm at a loss for how you're seeing it as "openly illegal", let alone comparable to some homicide fantasy.
I sort of agree. I don't want a larger number of friends, but I do crave having deep relationships with people that (currently) I don't really have.

Those infrequent hangs where it's primarily a catch-up and then go about your daily routine are OK, but unsatisfying. Like you, I have a handful of those friends that I catch up with and I care about them, but they're not really part of my day-to-day life.

What I want (and miss) are deeper relationships where I see / communicate with someone often and have strong shared interests. There were a few periods where I had those level of friendships and it was really great. For instance, about 10 years ago I was part of an art group that met at least once and usually twice a week in the evenings. I was close to a few of those people, and it felt great. Like family.

Since then the group broke up, a few people took up new interests, and one of my closer friends in the group passed. (Fuck cancer.) I moved, got married and while I love my family I have no tight, close relationships that hit that same level. Finding the same kind of friends and dynamic is very, very hard. Sucks.
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"Between Silk and Cyanide" was a great book with some very interesting and funny stories from SOE. I recommend it.
Where is that more precisely ?
Hey! Glad you like it. Made it for myself, happy to see folks like it too.

I have no idea how to get something onto Spotify, this is the first piece of music Ive ever “made” (just threw stuff together into Audacity).

If you have any advice/guidance on getting it there for you, lmk.
Surrey Police and Sussex Police were given access to the Another Call Recorder app [...] The police officers were themselves unaware that calls would be recorded.

Yeah, I guess that wasn't clear from the name of the app...
Iran is getting closer to nuclear weapons, and they sure seem to be dead set on using them.

(OT: I do not understand the U.S. policy in this, but surely they are doing everything in their power to prevent that, since this will affect, like, everything. Right?!)

And, the tension between the U.S. / NATO vs. Russia / China / Iran / (Brazil ?) has lessened, but it certainly it isn't gone. How optimistic are you?
I'm not saying there's no benefit whatsoever, but the benefit is not commensurate to the drawbacks these days.

If being a landlord were outlawed or made unprofitable by significant new taxes or whatever tomorrow, most businesses that rent today would relatively quickly be able to put together loans to buy the properties. Yes, starting a new business would require getting more capital together—but since this would be a change across the board for real estate, it's hard to imagine that banks would be unwilling to provide mortgages on such properties. It might mean that slightly fewer small businesses get started that already have very little chance of success, but honestly, we need to be solving those issues by different, more systemic, means anyway.

At some point we have to stop accepting this narrative that monopolists and other rentiers are doing us all a favor by "taking on the risk" of actually owning things, freeing us of that "burden" and graciously allowing us to pay them for the privilege of that freedom...forever.
Why do you think we're at the end stages of the Great Filter? Isn't it plausible that, as technology grows cheaper and more powerful, it will become easier for smaller and smaller groups to obtain world-killing abilities?
That is (sort of) the status quo bias fallacy
If there was one useful thing a !@#!@#! VCs could do is help police things like this.

Grumble grumble
Glad to hear you started training. Same here after some health issues.

> It would be seen as creepy as a male to try to make “friends” with women

Not sure why you or anyone would think that. In my case also it was nearly all women. But they approached me - because they are a social and welcoming group. I was married at the time. It wasn't a flirty thing at all. But it did result is a different friendship situation in that most of my friends were female. But trust me they make most excellent friends. Not afraid to share their feelings and listen to yours, and to say "I love you".
Only thing keeping me on Windows is the anticheat software employed by games like MWII.
Yes, many people assumed this. Here's the first example I found (scroll through the thread for many more): https://twitter.com/Russ_Wilcox/status/1647602468623114240 (Note that this guy was smart enough to ask the question - imagine how many people saw "AI-generated song" and just uncritically assumed a computer spat out the whole thing, chatGPT-style)
This is so incredibly dump, I think I am getting an aneurysm. Producing coal energy is already more expensive than renewables, now they are burning coal and then capturing that CO2 elsewhere? And in a manor that is less efficient than simply growing trees or plants? All while cutting down trees and sacrificing more and more green space to suburbs? Am I missing anything, or is that the extent of the idiocy? Idiocracy?
Google used to be a ~one man search engine clone (and it was definitely better a few years after that than it is today).
No pre-mine, no pre-sale, no original ledger. The software was written, and the 'satoshi wallet' was actually open mined.
I think GP's comment is probably apt if understood together with the qualification of "unless we find a better modeling architecture than Transformer".
That's why I included the part about also hedging against the market.

Not that it's particularly easy to do, but if you took out an equal weighted short position on the $SPY while going long on some ticker, it would pay off if that ticker outperformed the market.
Intuitively it feels logical that this would be challenged, but what do I know about copyright law. Surely cloning a famous artist's voice and musical style to piggyback off of their popularity would be some kind of infringement? And it's not like you can pretend to be loosely "inspired" by them or so, you're definitely intentionally faking their singing and voice.

Beyond this specific occurrence here, I think impersonating someone else's voice or appearance should generally be forbidden, except for say satirical use cases of course (which should come with some disclaimer).
it took this many years for an article?

Saratoga native... everyone knew this, that guy Jobs would buy a new car every six months just to avoid a DMV visit..

You think that master of the masters of the con cant play a lowly municipality built on orchards into a tax haven?
There's loads of trading platforms that allow you to buy and sell gold.

https://tradingplatforms.com/commodity/gold-trading/
The Howey test requires that a security be (1) an investment of money (2) in a common enterprise (3) with the expectation of profit (4) to be derived from the efforts of others.

Cryptocurrencies very clearly meet (1) and (2). Many tokens are likely to meet (3), but it's not universal. But (4) is where you have the most room to argue.

I don't know what Coinbase offers for sale. But I'm certain that least some of the tokens it supports are going to be defined as securities under the Howey test. Hell, if Coinbase offers the ability to use your tokens for staking, I'm pretty sure that alone qualifies as a security, even if the token itself isn't necessarily a security. (Coinbase disagrees that staking constitutes a security, but their reasoning is extremely motivated and I do not find it persuasive.)
This essay is great. Regarding simplicity, a couple of amusing observations: "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one." - Mark Twain (a variation of the French original by Blaise Pascal)

Similarly for writing software: First, get it right. Then, as with writing in general, rewrite ruthlessly until it is clean, beautiful, and simple.

Simplicity might be "defined" the way Justice Stewart (non-)defined pornography: "I can't give you a definition of it, but I know it when I see it."

There is the well-known programming experience of struggling with a crufty, complex piece of code. Then a new idea pops up, the code gets rewritten in a flash, and two thirds of it disappear. The result is obvious and inevitable.

Pair programming can really help here: As the author, you develop internal state that leads to a form of myopia about your code. A pairing partner can look at the code with fresh eyes and say, "WTF is going on here?" Can we rename that method or class or file to give the reader a clue?

It also reminds me of Paul Erdos' idea of "The Book", where God keeps all of the simplest and most beautiful proofs. As Erdos said, "You don't need to believe in God, but you should definitely believe in The Book!" His (and Selberg's) elementary proof of the prime number theorem, developed 60 years after the original proof, would be a great example of this.
The sec is not a supervisory agency, they’re a regulator meaning they step in after the fact for investor protections.

The sec had plenty of open sessions where folks in the industry would ask for guidance and yet it was not gotten because they don’t tell the capital or crypto markets what should be in the markets they’re here to pull down the things that shouldn’t be.

The sec allows “junk bonds” if you disclose the risk, the credit default swap maybe shouldn’t exist but it does... and is one of the most heavily traded securities.

Heck, you can buy VIX for CDS... let’s think about that for a second... that’s a mortgage, packed into a portfolio, that has a derivative, and that derivative’s volatility is tradeable.

That’s a FAAAAAAAAAAR more speculative asset than crypto and yet it still trades at higher volume than crypto does.
What's the reason for that? I can find a lot of coverage of the effects, and of efforts to change it, but why was it made that way to begin with?