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> It's completely irrelevant to her work.

I don’t think it is from her perspective. Lost connections, lost time, and she can’t even get her name on her work.

“By 1981, Carlos was known everywhere as Wendy: she had completed her gender confirmation surgery in 1972, and talked about it for the first time in a 1979 Playboy interview. Only two columns were devoted to her music in the piece, which she saw as a betrayal. Nevertheless, she revealed just how much “forced secrecy” had affected her career. Switched-On Bach’s popularity had made things hard for her, she said. She had “lost an entire decade” avoiding live performances and connections with other artists because she didn’t yet feel ready to disclose her gender transition publicly. Once, Stevie Wonder came to check out her synthesiser set-up, and Carlos hid as he knocked. Sewell writes in her book how Carlos still faces prejudice from record companies today: Warner Music has not still corrected her name on the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/11/she-made-music...
> I remember reading an article on her website years ago about her transition

It may have been a link to her '79 Playboy interview, where she talks (shockingly for the year, IMO) frankly about her transition and the realities of being trans: http://transascity.org/files/history/Carlos_Wendy_Playboy_In...

It talks about her music, but also dives into things like masturbation post-operation, sexual encounters before and after, and more.

Her closing statement seems to align with your summary, but goes even further:

> Wendy: [..] I think I would feel happy if a reaction to this interview were a yawn. I mean, who cares? I've gone through a procedure. It's done with. Just let me live my goddamn life and I will let you live yours.

> Playboy: It's certainly not boring. And by doing this interview, you're showing that you do care.

> Wendy: I don't want to become a proselytizer. I don't want this interview to champion the cause. I think it's very important that my condition be acknowledged as very rare, so that it's seen as a highly unlikely solution for other people with an unhappy life, or suicidal impulses, as I had. The fact that there were some "successful' transformations doesn't erase the many tragic cases in which an operation was not the full solution for particular individuals. No one should follow this hellish path if an alternative exists. Try other options first.
> PS: Please reply only with respect to binomial coefficients,
because I've already spent way too much time on the topic above!
The topic is timely, and important enough not to ignore completely,
but it's emphatically not for me.

Has anyone ever received an email with this type of admonition? Certainly coming from a famous/busy person such as Knuth, it is efficiency-enhancing and would not be seen as rude. But if a mere mortal like me did it, I feel like it would strike some people as impolite (basically, I don't care what you think about any of this other stuff, so don't bother writing me about it).
Humans don't need the Semantic Web, AI/bots do. It is expensive to turn text into the useful semantic bits that are useful for doing computations on large (or even moderate) quantities of data. So the AI will create a new Semantic Web3 that any bot (or human) can contribute to on any topic (especially about anything on the web).
> Something like this is the only thing that would save the x86 architecture before ARM inevitably took over.

Eh, this feels like a rounding error in ISA desirability compared to pointer authentication, or something like CHERI. Sure, it'd be _nice_ to have the legacy stuff cleaned up, but it's not costing much human effort to deal with compared to the effort spent securing native code.
Indeed. 3.5 didn't recognize my reference to Bomb #20.

But 4 did, and could describe the scene. And it even appreciated its relation to our discussion on epistemology when I said that I sometimes "hear" its voice when reading its replies!
Saving the forests wont be enough to stop climate change: we need emissions cuts
Zelensky dominates summit as G7 leaders call out China
He's always been a 'close to the metal' kind of guy, for example "While studying physics at Case, Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650, an early commercial computer. After reading the computer's manual, Knuth decided to rewrite the assembly and compiler code for the machine used in his school, because he believed he could do it better." This was when he was like 19 or 20 years old.

My real opinion is that he's mainly or even exclusively interested in systems that he can simulate completely within his own brain. He's not going to be doing that with GPT-4.
Much respect to Neeva for being in the arena. Couple thoughts:

* Outside of the HN crowd, I don't think the average consumer thinks of privacy as a differentiator.

* I don't know if competing on general search is the way in. I think you need a wedge, and these new companies competing on a certain vertical (like search tools for developers). I see promise here, with specialized LLMs in the backend.

* The biggest search engine in the world comes as the default option on the most popular browser and the most popular phone operating system. Even if your results are 10x better, that's a huge hurdle to overcome.
When your Knuth you don’t need to bother searching for things.

Who here would ignore even the most mundane question from him?
Some of us recall that when Google+ launched it lacked any search whatsoever.

That this was the case with a company whose name is synonymous with online search was ... simply mind-boggling.

The platform eventually did get search (actually a few different implementations), which varied between mostly useless to actually reasonably functional, though I'll note that HN's Algolia-based search is vastly more useful on an ongoing basis.

G+'s content, to the extent it survives at all, is largely on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine which ... lacks search.
We are talking about old devices, and you brought up a former flagship from the biggest android manufacturer.

You definitely would have much less luck with a random huawei.
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> A disturbing large number of businesses in poor areas block there restrooms and or are "out of order"

I hear you. I also have empathy for people who clean public bathrooms.

I strongly suspect the “rich” and “upper class” aren’t the ones putting the “out of order” signs on the doors. It’s the workers at the store who are responsible for cleaning them.

I suspect they’re tired of being responsible for cleaning up the stuff that happens in there. Feces smeared on the walls, wads of paper shoved down in the urinal and urine overflowing and flooding the floors. Vomit everywhere.

If I had to hazard a guess, if you personally organized a volunteer group, went around that neighborhood, and provided reliable bathroom cleaning services and repair you’d start seeing more bathrooms.

Next time you walk by one, ask the person at the front desk if they’ll let you clean it.
No, you were not traumatized by text. Grow up.
Relevant: https://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/linux_literature/to...

Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that
all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but
James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive
women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took
thousands of words to say it.

Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father.

Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages. If all Russians talk as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a
major world power.

I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise
the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right
out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me."

Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words:

* "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize
nature and will kill you.

* "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy.

-- Dave Barry
So you have no rebuttal to the facts except to deny them? That’s a pretty weak hand. Before the Durham report you could maybe claim this and say “wait for the report, it’ll set things straight.” But now that the Durham report has been released, the contents emphatically do not undo the findings of the Mueller Report, the DOJ IG Report, or 5 volumes of the Senate Intel report on this matter.

Steele didn’t have 4 government investigations to back his dossier, the main point of which was proven by the Mueller report volume 1.

> the way the FBI willfully lied and buried the truth due to their blind hatred of Trump is the only thing criminal that happened.

This assertion is at odds with the IG report, in which Horowitz finds no political bias on the part of the FBI that would have impacted their investigation.

I’m sorry, but again, I have reports from Mueller, Horowitz, Rubio, and Durham to back my position. I will weight their reports and evidence against the evidence and reports you’ve provided and come to a decision accordingly based on the facts.
maybe. I tried to play board games with my boys many times, but even something as simple and potentially enjoyable as Monopoly or cards quickly turns our warm relationship into a nasty pissing match. We actually turned to movies and shows for that reason (or more collaborative types of games but that's harder to come by)
It kind of reads like all those unhelpful answers you find on Microsoft support forums.
I think we are just seeing Dunning-Kruger in the machine. It doesn't know that it doesn't know.
You might be right about that.
Does ChatGPT continually learn from its ongoing conversations? Or is it only trained in advance?
What’s bad with gluing batteries? I prefer maximizing the capacity of my device, and having waterproofness.
I can't speak for others, but for me this headline and idea is exactly and perfectly wrong, so I suppose I just want to reach those for whom this generates unnecessary "guilt" or something like that.

As a voracious reader, I've personally found that I got the most out of books when I stopped trying to summarize and highlight. I very rarely do either anymore.

I realize that what happens is sort of a Darwinian "survival of the fittest ideas" in my head, often subconsciously. Once I relaxed and decided, "If the stuff in this book is good enough, my brain will keep it FOR me" both my satisfaction AND utility of books increased dramatically.

(which is to say, it's not that I never write anything down. It's that if I do, it's not tied to the book, but to the "thing" or "topic" that I'm interested in, with a reference TO the book)
They did it with Indy because the sequel is out 40 years after the original. It wouldn't make sense to do a Godfather Part II style dual-actor for the film.

That's not to say the technology isn't overused.
> businesstheater

I've seen a lot of that crap on e.g. the Oslo Stock Exchange over the past two decades. Lots of money from local and very inexperienced (e.g. fishing/shipping/oil money) companies/people, looking to invest in tech and often randomly landing on investing in quite far out gambles where it's legitimitely really hard to figure out of there's an intent of fraud or not. The exec teams tend to draw disgustingly high comps though. Then the weird companies get insanely hyped for no reason by local "economy journalists". Then there's loads of insider leaks and trading. Oslo Stock Exchange is like the wild west.

I thought this was largely isolated to small immature markets like e.g. Norway though.
Yup, they got distracted and didn’t seem to focus on their core mission. So much focus on crypto, then growth features like “media bias”, then AI which they had zero hope in winning. It felt like they were always chasing their tail.
Evidence of human-controlled fires at Acheulean Valdocarros site (Spain 245 kya)
You're severely underestimating how much content is on the internet and how hard it would be to see and index it all. Chat OpenAI used common crawl dataset, which is already pretty unwieldy and represents an amalgamation data gathered over several years by many crawlers.
Probably should have lawyered up. Illegally gathered evidence is supposed to be inadmissible in court. At least in the US.

People get off on murder charges because of this, like that lady that killed her infant but the cop searched her trunk without a warrant or probable cause. She obviously killed it, but the only evidence was inadmissible, so she walked.
Have you ever looked Ulam spiral? I find a lot of ideas in number theory to be magical - I would never have the talent for it professionally, but I know enough to appreciate the discoveries when they are explained to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
> The AWS bet is that some companies, especially when starting out, will pay a high premium to not have to manage certain physical resources, and to have the flexibility to scale up or down easily

It's not even a high premium if you need what cloud offerings have.

Management is expensive. Scaling is expensive. Security and compliance is expensive.

Cloud isn't for everyone, but when you need what it offers it can be amazingly cost effective.
You can order live diatoms from Carolina Biological:
https://www.carolina.com/algae/diatoms-living/FAM_153020.pr

you can grow the culture you get from them continuously if you enjoy keeping algae pets. note that diatom are really hard to see, and you do want very high magnification.

These days I don't really use slides- I found that glass-bottom petri dishes work well, but that's at least partly because I do inverted imaging (objective pointing up, through the sample, towards the illumination) with a custom-built XY stage microscope.
Yes, it's mostly the continual equipment maintenance and the occasional process engineer that goes actually looking at the equipment (mostly in drop bays) as wafers go by in boxes. Most of those are associates degree positions, because you need to understand enough (cleanliness, electronics, a little chemistry/optics, and some chemistry) to debug and replace components without breaking more stuff. Most of the equipment is manufactured, updated, and maintained/fixed by european, american, and japanese FAEs anyway.

That said, I do still hear that when there's an actual yield problem (or a delay in achieving yield), then there's a lot of overtime for the process engineers getting it up and running. Usually some engineer has to be on call all night in each area (photo, diff/dep, etch, implant), but in an office nearby.

Oh, and also there is all the process model extraction/control that has to be done for each fab/process. That's a whole group of serious engineers to create the PDKs.
I'm not against idea of having LLM be smart assistant for home, but I do have problem with sending any of that to cloud.

It's one thing to use it as convenient way to change anything remotely but linking home automation not only into constant internet connectivity but also "that one particular cloud thing that might disappear at any moment" (hello google) just seems like setting yourself for problems later. At least in this case he's still left with HASS if cloudy part goes away.

But I wish there was more push into hybrid model - like have your router or small ARM box be server that runs queue and some, for lack of better word, "lambda-like" code that handles most of the programmed events (lights, heating etc.), say via WASM and some APIs around it, then just have HASS-like software (both cloud and local) deploy control rules/code onto it.

Big nice UI for control goes down ? Doesn't matter, the controller is just running simple code, not rest of the visualisation and controls. Want to replace it ? Configuration as code makes that a breeze, hell, have cloud backup of whole setup. Don't want controller ? It's essentially just a queue and some code runners, that cloud providers can host for you. Want pretty graphs in cloud or some aggregation ? Just make your local node filter and send relevant MQ events there.
> Some classes in her first major bulged with hundreds of students, while those in other fields were much smaller. In computer science, Patel said, she often felt “more like an ID number than a student.”

That's because usually 100-200 level classes weed out high % of students who don't have the aptitude for highly technial diciplines. East asia can generate a disproprtionate technical talent because they're cramming kids with math science since middle school to build the base for tertiary. IMO just remaking colleges and universities won't be enough.
It knows some numbers and can do simple arithmetic. But it's not general in its approach to this.
I suspect you could get ChatGPT to be a YEC pretty easily, without even forcing it.
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>OK, but that doesn't change the fact that if you actually want to use the vector extension on this CPU you'll be using a very out of date compiler, or forward porting the 0.7.1 support to a newer toolchain.

GNU toolchain supports 0.7.1. What we don't know is if it will do so forever, or remove it.

>For someone buying a quad core SBC that may not be a big deal, but 64 cores that you can't cleanly use to their full potential is a bit of an ask.

However, If a company has a need for this sort of compute and has and full control of their stack, these chips can be useful and are already available.

For an enthusiast it's alright as long as not much money is spent (e.g. Sipeed LM4A), at worst (if there ceases to be an ecosystem for 0.7.1 V) what you've got then is a chip with no V. One that's significantly faster than the one used in VisionFive 2, which does actually not have V in any form or shape.

For end users that don't care about RISC-V and want an SBC, next year (or perhaps late this year) there'll be RVA22+V options, and a much more mature ecosystem; I own VF2 (the first RISC-V SBC to actually ship large numbers), and I have seen how fast the ecosystem has accelerated since its release.
> I don't hate capitalism any more than I hate childhood; it has its purpose and needs to be moved beyond.

> Like feudalism, though, it creates a class that is very interested in preventing that at the expense and who, insofar as they act on that interest, are bad actors and need to be held accountable.

Apologies for the misunderstanding of your position.
Let’s not put those early phones into the same bracket with more modern ones — the phone market had a very steep improvement in its early years, that has only entered a more stagnating period a few years ago. Before that you pretty much had to buy a new phone each 3 years, now an iphone X is and will be available for many years to come.
There's production: You have to produce a large number of parts in a production run. If you sell a small number, that's a lot of waste.

And there's storage: Storing things in warehouses costs money per year. I've heard figures well above $1 per part and year. If you use half a warehouse for storing things that will eventually not be used, you're wasting that warehouse and spending money to do it.
Add in that it's theorized they explicitly seek out areas that are hard for humans to get to.
> If I say "it's too chilly in here" in a house with only lights, it will turn them on as a way of "warming things up".

is it bad that I'm on GPT's side on this, i mean if they are incandescent lights they are small electric heaters and what else do you expect it to do
TreeSitter is easy to use, pretty language neutral and it is tolerant to errors. Plus at this point people have already implemented support for a ton of languages.

My only issue with it is that it really only does half the job. You get a CST of sorts, but if you want to do anything with it you pretty much have to hand write another parser for that node tree.

In contrast parser combinator libraries like Nom and Chumsky give you "the final output".
The page you are thinking of is probably https://www.wendycarlos.com/pruri.html

I agree, Wendy is a pioneer and has an incredible body of work. It’s a shame her music is mostly out of print and not available to stream. I realize that’s her choice but it leaves her legacy unavailable to modern audiences.
Same for Dutch. It's the common name for a hair dryer.
Yup, it's absolutely true, navigating to the "good parts" is a nightmare
I think voting in someone like Robert Kennedy is the only hope against the Washington "uni-party" and a clearly corrupt justice system. Who else is there?
I glanced at the headline and thought, oh kinda random but it’ll be neat to see what Don Bluth thinks of ChatGPT. After all, Secret of Nimh was such a great movie!
I assume he specifically did NOT do that because he did not want to “pollute” himself in some way. He just wanted to see how it did.

This was more of a fun diversion for him than a scientific study.
Well, I was trained as a scientist and medical researcher and did my phd thesis on cancer drugs. One thing you learn is that many people see patterns in cancer that are better explained by random numbers.

See this doc, including the section "Some important points to consider".

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/understanding-...

You can be disgusted all you want but I think you're making an error.
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> use their image and voice for a role in a movie without ever actually being on camera.

The upside to this is that tech might be able to fix up some actors.

Who will get the Oscar?
Like the sibling comment, I saw the same work attributed to different names and got confused. When I was a kid, it was the kind of thing that was pretty much verboten to really discuss, but mockery was acceptable, so I can imagine it just wasn't really spoken about and I'm sure hampered her career.

The BBC has an archived interview[0] where I believe she was wearing fake sideburns to keep up a more masculine appearance in public while transitioning. The effect is a bit odd.

I actually first came across her work perusing the public library and actually found the technical excellence of her playing combined with the simplistic sounds of the early synths to be a bit off-putting; it sounded like a 90's midi file. But I could certainly imagine the interest of that in the 60's, and while it's grown on me a bit since then, I can see why it hasn't aged particularly well.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsW2EDGbDqg
I wonder about a connection between the collapse in commercial real estate and the recent flood of editorials, news segments, interviews, public statements, tweets, etc., railing against Work-from-Home.

It feels like a lot of investor-class losses are on the verge of being realized, and they are getting desperate.
No, that is not obvious, more than you making money from corporate agile, which few software engineers seem to actually like. Too many meetings is one of the most common criticisms.
2 is a magic number on the mobile platform, capitalism is not some magic tool to solve every problem — there is not enough financial incentive to create an app for the majority of corporations for more than 2 platforms. So no new competitor can turn up, see Microsoft that is no small fish, and spent a shitton of money on it, to no avail.

On the other hand, Apple is like the best player in this category with almost a decade of proper, first-class support, compared to every android device that will die in 2 years, only recently may survive the 4 your mark.
Hah, having worked in automotive, things are dysfunctional as shit. Oh, they ship things, sure, but mostly as a consequence of sheer will of plowring man-hours in thins untill they kinda work.

Curious what was your experience operating in those fields.