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because it doesn't sound like aphex twin, isn't particularly quirky, isn't skronky, and doesn't just hit me.

It sounds like output not resembling what you requested, and you're celebrating because for some random reason this particular prompt didn't sound totally horrible today. But it isn't intentionally making music, and it isn't particularly interesting music either. It's basically baby's first drum machine sort of stuff.
I don't consider needing the extra computer a handicap. I wouldn't want my code compiling and test suites to run on a computer strapped to my face, no matter how powerful it is.

And as part of my work, I connect to a lot of different machines, either through SSH or through Screen Sharing. If I could have a separate screen for each of the machines it would be super sweet. Right now, if I want to stream some logs from a remote server, I have to find some free space on one of my physical displays. With Apple Vision I could just create an additional virtual display somewhere.

I think Apple Vision is already a useful product if it just offers freely configurable virtual screens. Whether the actual computing happens on the headset or on a different device is something I don't care about.
Exactly. They probably could have done the same thing if they just kept throwing the main breaker.
Couldn't ActivityPub be used to as the protocol for this without any modifications? I don't see a logical difference between the structure of Pleroma/Mastodon conversations and a message forum aside from how the UI is presented. If someone took the UI of phpBB but used ActivityPub as the data source it should Just Work(tm).
If this is the case then these writers should be spending 95% of their words talking about how to go from here to a different better future, or even better rolling up their sleeves and attempting to live or create such a future here and now.

The only criticism you need is whatever it takes to frame the problem.

I’ve read Kaczynski and numerous other primitivists and reactionaries and that’s not the dominant theme. The emphasis is on a lost golden age (that I do not believe actually existed) and accusing modernity in a moralistic tone.
Create 360 video backgrounds using AI on your phone
Maybe it would have moved a second later...
That’s pretty nice,

Have you ever thought about going full time on YouTube
And that's why I call it a conspiracy theory - it relies on a small number of select snippets, interpreted in the most favorable way possible, ignoring things like explicit statements to the opposite from the very same sources. A textbook example of conspiratorial thinking.

The facts are simple:

1. Possible NATO status of Warsaw Pact countries was never discussed.

2. There was no assurance from NATO to Soviet Union on possible NATO status of Warsaw Pact countries.

3. Key members of the Soviet leadership explicitly deny any such assurances.

4. Russia never brought up any such assurances when Warsaw Pact countries joined NATO.

5. Russia and NATO signed a treaty greenlighting NATO enlargement before any official talks with Warsaw Pact countries started.

What was discussed in 1990:

1. Integration of East German military into NATO structures.

2. Size and composition of German military after reunification.

3. Placement of NATO forces (that is, from the US, UK, and elsewhere) in East Germany.

This has nothing to do with NATO status of Warsaw Pact countries.

Placement of NATO troops (discussed) and potential members of NATO (not discussed) should not be confused.
We don't need AI to add to our to-do list, we need it to cross things off.
buy a new mic to gain traction?
The force of nature is that our society will utilize any technology before even considering its ramifications. "Touchscreens in cars? Let's do it!"

I think you might enjoy Neil Postman's book "Technopoly", which discusses the subject of weighing the pros and cons of a subject instead of just diving in headfirst every time some new technology is developed. His YouTube talks are also great.
Possibly. FAIR has always been doing great work and making it public though (PyTorch is so big that we forget about it sometimes). Sadly 'we sell ads' is going to remain the case unless product people ask users to pony up some cash to use this tech. To be fair, I would totally chuck some cash to play with something like this and I can easily imagine a world in which this technology is used to power some bizarre social experiences like an online drum circle or some such.
The base instruction set is tiny but there are quite a few extensions and pretty much every practical implementation includes at least a few of them.

i.e. the GD32V microcontrollers implement RV32IMAC, Allwinner D1 which is a "full-blown" CPU meant to run Linux implements RV64IMAFDCVU.

RV32I/RV64I are the base 32/64 bit integer instruction sets and every letter after that is a different extension. Most of the extensions are relatively small and simple, but the C (compressed instructions) extension introduces some decoder complexity and the V (vector) extension adds several hundred instructions.

Though even with all the extensions it is still a very small/simple ISA by modern standards.
Aha I see, sorry!

To me a drive home is synonymous with me being behind the wheel, hence the confusion.
Would it be reasonable to reserve hydrogen for electric plants then? Bringing power from far away and burning the hydrogen to power locals?
The Ryzen 3 1300X is a low-end, nearly 6-year-old CPU. The Core i5 2500K is a mid-range, _12-year-old_ CPU. It's a perfectly reasonable minimum requirement.
How does the M2 Ultra stack up against the PC world? Apple Silicon is a SoC so it’s hard to quantity the difference between it and the individual parts in a PC.

You can get individual parts that are performing better in a PC but the SoC design, I’m sure, must bring something to the table right? Performance per watt is not important on desktop and that’s Apple’s biggest advantage. If we take that way, what does the M2 Ultra Mac Studio give people who spend so much money? Is it for video and photo editors who want a lot of performance in a quiet and small package?
Sky train in Vancouver bc has been driverless for near 40 years now
No praise for his methods but reading his manifesto a few years ago I was surprised about how much I found to have been an accurate warning of what would happen.
I was a victim of skimming on my Revolut card at an Allpoint ATM within their network. Despite the clear evidence, police report, and evidence from the skimmed withdrawal ATM camera clearly showing the withdrawal without my card, Revolut essentially bunted and all but admitted (via a month of disjointed back and forths with what seemed liked 50+ reps) they don't deal, reimburse, or follow-up with skimming leaving me on the hook and the culprit without repercussions.

I know the NYPD may be making a case but haven't heard a follow-up, despite them already having clear video evidence of the suspect from the ATM attempts in what's now been ~5 months since the incident and still haven't been made whole.

Since then I don't leave any funds in Revolut as they pretend to not be a bank except when it suits them. There's something to be said to be able to actually walk into a bank, or make a call and have someone that can actually do something to resolve the issue and potentially follow-up with the authorities, versus leaving it all to the victim, and tough luck.

Still have to follow-up with the banking authorities to file complaints against Revolut along with all the evidence and police findings in the hopes of some positive conclusion, but as you can see is a lot of effort on my part, and in the meantime the culprit continues to prosper.

Our police and banking systems are clearly not setup or capable to handle fraud crimes and the criminals know it, taking advantage of it all the way to the bank.
Most of the c string usage appears to be just for libobs, which is a C library. They have a few constants that are perfectly fine and the rest of their string usage is actually std::string ...
A lot of people similarly claim that the 2020 election was stolen, aided and abetted by a criminal conspiracy. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you don't agree with those claims, and it wouldn't stem from a skepticism of the base notion that "people with power commit crimes openly and with impunity".

In any case, even when illegal government programs exist it's again unclear to me what sort of due diligence a contractor would have to make to avoid being labeled as a "criminal organization". Similarly, a lot of people consider soldiers who fought in Iraq to be murderers, and I see the point but it would come off as confusing in a normal conversation about a particular person to just casually label them as a murderer because of this.
People who want to use AI to destroy the world, of course. :)
This proves that at the core. The things we rely on to achieve great software and life impacting technologies are extremely simple. The complexity is that how to make them.
Can 100 people self-organise without a leader? [video]
Why unfortunately? Quotes are just fragments.
Music is hard to describe well without using artist names or references to specific songs. There isn't an alternative way to really describe things - "Airy EDM with tropical feel" doesn't cut it.

This space will belong to scrappy shadowy decentralised organisations who let you type "give me a filtered french disco song using mizell brothers era johnny hammond jazz funk samples, lil uzi rapping, with a thundercat bassline and crooning"
Ok, you’ve convinced me. I’ll go drive in FSD Tesla and be certain that you and Musk will personally guarantee safety of it and pickup the bill if something happens.

Also, please actually go read the standard, and talk about design intent, and which main way to differentiate the systems.
Have you seen the video where a tesla tries to hard left into the guard rail on a freeway because of construction/redirect lines going to the left
> I was expecting the MacPro (M-series) to be exactly that.

MKBHD put forward an interesting hypothesis in his last podcast: this generation Mac Pro has simply to get the refresh out the door. They took their existing designs (SoC/chips, cases) and simply mashed them together. Similarly to how they simply mashed the M-chips into existing laptop case designs first, and then optimized with Gen2.

Now that they have something, they can iterate on a more harmonious solution that allows for the advantages of each.
I guess they mean not just a screen capture utility
In retrospect, you're definitely right and I will make note of that in the future.
His published works aside, it seems he was corresponding with people and answering letters until fairly recently. Many of these letters (or quite convincing forgeries) are archived in your favourite 4chan archive of choice.

Also worth mentioning what was essentially a partial autobiography by Kaczynsky: Truth Versus Lies[1]. I'm not sure it was ever completed and there are a couple versions floating around. He was still working on it well into the mid 2010s.

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[1] One version: https://archive.org/details/TruthVersusLiesPart1
Yep, given sufficient externalities, this is true. As an example, watch this fictional response to the fact that better cars cost more:

Let's get the poors out of safe cars. The peasant class belongs in beaters, while the rich ride safe.

Consider the choices necessary to make that statement untrue.
Not sure what's hard to imagine about different sets of icons in your taskbar. Quick example, your personal taskbar might have:

- Steam

- Youtube

- Plex

While for work you might have:

- A terminal

- Work chat

- Work ticketing system

- Your editor

I'll just link to a page about Activities since I'm just rehashing them: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-desktop/plasma-deskto...
> So rich people (who really do not care about few dollars) will be able to drive to downtown just for run while poor ones which need it will suffer.

The first part is true, the second part not necessarily so, if combined with improved subway. Theoretically, it should be even possible to setup the system, where these taxes on cars to downtown directly fund subway expansion and modernization.
It is amazing how this group of volunteers create the
foundation for many more commercial Linux ventures and
use by billion-dollar companies.

A lot of end users of different distros do not even know
that Debian is the foundation.
I will as go as far as to say Debian had solved a lot of
the hard issues and then other sprinkle it.
(Probably not a popular view)

Anyways thanks to all the Debian team members.
Your work ought to be better known.
> they need to think of themselves as stewards and not owners.

This is an important idea that a lot don't seem to get.

Of cource, if you're in (US) business, the norm is to be an owner, often with a PR veneer of steward or faux folksiness, and most savvy people understand that.

(Junior engineers are to be forgiven for not yet understanding that the megacorp or aspiring techbro-ionaire is often trying to trick the kids to get into the back of the ice cream truck of vendor lock-in.)

But in many other contexts, people rightly expect steward. Including in many ostensibly community projects, in which there are very different reasonable expectations.
having read his manifesto multiple times, I think its better to read Ellul's books (particularly Propaganda and Technological Society)
I dont know what you mean by 'default'. Inference and deduction is widely used across behavioralism, primarily because it has yielded useful models. I see no reason that it should be discounted, as a valid approach, in pursuit of an absolute truth by some other standard.
The problem is the third party apps don't serve ads. Which other site allows you to bypass the entire monetization strategy the way reddit has?
Here’s how cybercriminals bypass EDR
> Different areas of the cortex are far less specialized than you seem to think. We process language via vision (sign language) just as readily as via hearing. We process vision just as readily via touch (experimental transducer array) as via sight.

This is just false, you don't know what you are talking about. It's been known for some time that sign language is processed in the same parts of the brain as spoken language.
An interesting observation!
A lot of the "leftists" Ted K disagrees with in that work are not proper Marxists but SJW/radical liberals (what's called the American Left but has little relation to Marxist thought)
> Is it just less common or different business takes on quotas and rate limits?

Neither, you're probably not seeking out such stories (there are plenty, even on HN). Google tends to get more negative attention on this particular forum, which might play a role, but the larger component is probably just chance.
AMD/Intel run at ~5 GHz at peak. Using that vs Apple's 3.7 GHz, you can see that the M2 is roughly ~20% better than the others at iso power.
FTC to take aim at health apps with updated breach notification rules
There truly is no honor among thieves.
The bigger issue was that they couldn’t get the G5 to work in a laptop and this was killing Apple. Apple’s laptops have always been a cut above their PC counterparts in terms of design, but in those days it felt like Apple Laptops were from a different planet, except they were unreasonably slow in large part because they were stuck on the G4 processor for years. Switching to intel was a necessity for survival. IBM just couldn’t deliver or keep up with what Intel was doing.
Google Cloud crypto-mining protection covers up to $1M in compute expenses
I wonder if this works for input, or if it's output only. I experimented with using webrtc for speedrunning races, but ran into issues because I didn't know how to interactively crop the inputs in order to stitch them back together and stream the output to twitch.
> - Get a good mic, mic stand, shock mount.

Audio is 80% of video.

People will watch potato-quality video; no one will listen to garbage audio.
Except I'm not the same person the advice was given to
Amazon hate their employees. Google hate their customers.
As if the current music scene hasn't already plummed the depths of banality. At this rate the stars of the 70s and 80s will be in business until they expire.
Top Vulnerabilities of 2023: Apache Superset, Papercut, MOVEit and yes, ChatGPT
Anyone find out how far the children wandered from the crash site?
On that article, decentralization only means going back to early 2000's with small hosted forum sites or something still centralized like Mastodon.

Technology truly moved far in the meanwhile. At the moment the only protocol that goes beyond expectations is Nostr.

Over there it doesn't matter where your data is hosted and there are zero blochains. The only thing that matters is your private key (identity) and with that you can always write wherever someone is willing to accept your writings.

Quite a novelty paradigm, worthy of a true sucessor to Usenet.
“Force of nature” generally means some phenomenon of physics or some natural disaster outside of human control, which is what I meant.

“A big and powerful cool thing” is not what I meant, and not what force of nature usually means.
This moral argument doesn't really work on people from the US after about 20 years of global militarism, especially that whole stint in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I hate murder as much as the next guy, but our political and military leaders constantly make decisions that result in needless deaths. You don't even know how upset I personally was after voting for Obama and seeing him continue using drones to target terrorists while also killing innocent civilians as collateral damage.

Please, grant me the luxury to like this one guy who killed three innocent people because I just think his manifesto was pretty good. My 'leaders' have already taught me that murder can be overlooked by the vast majority of the public, or at least one half of it, every 4-8 years. I think I'm allowed to like Uncle Ted.
This is the secret to filmmaking too.

Your cinematics can look amazing, but if your sound is amateur, the entire finished product is too.

Bad sound kills.
Public transit has always been the cheaper option. This just makes the difference a little larger.
Ask HN: What would an IDE built for the Apple Vision Pro look like?
The OS for Apple Vision Pro brings a new design language focusing on depth and utilizing space beyond a square screen.

If IDEs weren't confined to a 2D window, what would it look like? Are there any features you can think of that would make AR coding more productive than simply on a monitor?
You know how sometimes you'll see someone [dead] on here making salient points, then wonder why they're dead? Then you check them out, and every so often they go off on incoherent tirades.

That's Ted Kaczynski. He may have had two good ideas for every bad one, but he was still a piece of shit who deserved to be isolated from society where he couldn't hurt anyone, and there are better advocates for whatever good came out of his head.

Or to paraphrase the dril classic: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

edit: to be clear, I think the dude was little more than an ecofascist and not worth taking seriously. But if you're going to, you ought to know he was the worst advocate for any position he held. You can do better than propping up a dead asshole.
I don't know. Nowadays a top-of-the-spec Linux workstation without any cost on top (i.e. bare-components) is around ~10k. 5995WX in the graph wccf provided alone costs ~5k.
You can explain the high level concepts but it’s really difficult to say “this group of neurons does this specific thing and that’s why this output was produced”, though OpenAI did make some progress in getting GPT-4 to explain what each neuron in GPT-2 is correlated to but we can also find what human brain regions are correlated to but that doesn’t necessarily explain the system as a whole and how everything interacts
I would agree with you, but Mr. Beast is very methodical and has the algorithm beat at this point.
I mean, Ted was definitely a terrorist, but the size of his crimes pales in comparison to the institution that experimented on him and continues to exist to this day.
This sort of feedback is just difficult for people to consume in a mature way. Many get defensive or weaponize it. Language design is hard to critique since it becomes so abstract making most comments superficial. But people in this situation often have some actual knowledge. The other situation is when the language devs actually listen to some of the feedback.
If it works for you, great, but the reason I like to write down all of the tasks is so that I can let go of them in my mind. If I am only allowed to write down one task, I'm forced to memorise the rest of the tasks.
> - Practice speaking. Slow down.

This is good advice for most people in general. Speaking slower gives more time to think about what you're going to say, which means you say better things. It's shocking how slowly you can get away with speaking.

Incidentally, slowing down is also good advice for improving your handwriting.
Viewing humans through a lens of regional characteristics is also reductive so, so long as you still think that's worthwhile, it's more a question of which reductive categorizations you think are meaningful.
what about bombing merchant ships in indonesia, has that been refuted too?
Totally, you are not supposed to block an intersection, and it is forbidden to stay on a pedestrian crossing.
I never intended to make an argument against Kaczynski's ideas, I'm just pointing out that people could have reasonable moral objections against distributing his work. It's "negotiating with terrorists" kind of stuff. Whether his ideas are good or bad is an entirely separate matter.

> We can have an intellectual dialogue without devolving to "this made me feel bad therefore you're wrong!"

The people who are dead or wounded feel very bad indeed. And I never said you're wrong, either, or that Kaczynski's ideas are wrong.
There are also rich and poor people using the subway. Improving it will improve the situation for everyone.

I'm (sincerely) curious though, who are the poor people affected? Parking downtown is crazy expensive, and there are already expensive tolls around Manhattan.

There are easy solutions though: charge by the weight/size of the car (the weight should already be on the car registration).
I don't know that 72% to 65% is comparable or slightly higher. That seems like a gap to me. And the fact that BMW ranked 10th last year isn't great.

Quality is famously subjective, that's why you'll never see it ranked in a way that everyone can agree on the way you can with reliability which is actually measurable.

But reliability is one of the markers that most people would use to judge quality. And we generally expect aircraft to go where we want them to without catastrophic failure, so I would think that an F18 is more reliable than a paper plane.
I've not driven in NYC. But I've driven in LA, SF, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Milwaukee, maybe a bit in Dallas.

Big cities do have horrendous traffic in high density areas. Even if it's free flowing, there are intersections so often and pedestrians everywhere and so speeds are necessarily quite low. You wouldn't drive through there unless you don't have a choice; maybe the ferry lets off downtown and you need to get to the freeway from there, but usually you're driving through downtown to get to somewhere downtown, which means you need to park, which is also terrible.

Of course, NYC is bigger than I think, and there might be some parts where density is relatively less, but the only reasons to have a car there are if you're a cab/limo driver or if you're doing the cannonball run.
An accurate theory can be used to predict things with reasonable confidence, within the limits of the theory.

We don't have an accurate theory of intelligence. What we have now is at the "not even wrong" stage. Assuming it's wrong is about like assuming that alchemy is wrong.