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This is an interesting post and the person achieved a huge amount.

They should not have given up.

I would have pivoted to personal pet companions. If people want virtual girlfriends then they certainly want personal dogs, cats and birds that talk to you.

Enough was achieved here to raise money.

Some careful redesign and development might have allowed some caching and reuse of expensive AI API interactions, reducing costs.

Add in further gameplay elements so it is not just about making the AI API do stuff, that would also reduce costs and maybe even engage the users more.

Perhaps AI should be the icing and accents on a game rather than the focus.

As an aside, this is the first time I have read anyone tell about how they wanked to their own software.

Altogether this was perhaps a missed opportunity for this founder.

BUT it is now an opportunity for one of the HN readers to follow this playbook and replicate what this founder did.
Eventually? Months away.
I have tutored 3 students in Math for a term or more in the UK, here's my thoughts:

- Student motivation is crucial. Your first duty is not to be a cardboard tutor, to be interesting, different, to stir something. Without this nothing later really matters (to me it is equivalent to pursuing a relationship where there is attraction, but not laughter, fun and relaxation - it's a base ingredient)

- Tutors who uncover and help students see misconceptions and knowledge gaps do demand more mental focus, but are much more helpful; these (e.g. visiting last weeks homework mistakes) are incredibly useful mid session too to break up sessions and to illustrate progress.

- You really face a choice depending on the students motivation. I have tutored 3 maths students, 2 of which were on path to fail at their age 16 qualifications, who I did my utmost to stir interest in with relation to video gaming, science and literature respectively, and, by way of being more relatable than their teachers, helped them pass; and one who (long before ChatGPT) I recognised immediately that they were incredibly talented academically and talented at listening, but it did not show in grades because of a lack of confidence and their social beliefs about themself. After a few sessions, I introduced them to machine learning libraries (at the time sci-kit learn/nltk) far beyond anything on their syllabus and showed them beautiful ways to use maths later on to do incredibly interesting things like nearest neighbour search for conversation sentences in Friends episodes. I barely mentioned the maths until after the fact in these stirring few sessions... but once I did they knew they learned eagerly...

They latched on with such energy that their work was compared to that of someone 4 years their senior, and they (from a below average UK London school) got a place in Oxbridge (I cannot express how proud I was of them).

I think it goes to show self-belief and social-beliefs are so important to focus on. As a tutor you -can- make a difference, you -are- the fresh and more relatable start compared to a teacher. And a last important fact is be ready to use metaphors.

To really excel as a tutor I think you should attach math with wonder to something they like. For a fan on the new Matrix movie, it could be the mysterious RSA and P - NP problem. You are a revealer, a magician. Where possible hold some information in apprehension, for the next session. Make it a journey. The teacher must address every student, your work is for them. You are showing them a door to a new way of learning the world, and that door is made of a new material, that they will naturally want to learn about so they can walk through it!
You miss the point.

Sony will still do it. It’s about who gets to profit from making humans less valuable as creators, not about whether or not it will happen.

This is about rent seeking by huge corporations, ultimately, since they own huge swaths of rights to creative works and can easily acquire more.

This IS happening. The question is will the benefits to society be democratized to some extent, or will they be concentrated to benefit only the major industry players?
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Kinda like requiring to climb a cliff when you require knee surgery..
Arguing a general case by pointing out a massive exception doesn't really work though.
Are all cans of tomatoes manufactured during their ripest period?
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Göbekli Tepe was not abandoned but purposely buried. It is composed of several successive structures, built and then buried over the span more than a thousand years. That's a considerable long term commitment.
I've been using hhkb pro 2 for 5 years and I haven't found a better solution. This is one of the best purchases for me. I can say that it is a device that I am emotionally attached to. However, if I want to buy it with mouse features, I can buy Text Shinobi. The design and quality seem to be better and I have never needed bluetooth.
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On paper; it checks all the important marks: split, mechanical, has a trackpoint. I wish Keychron added similar (they have great mac/windows switching support; as well as some minor adjustments for some keys)
How are people going to become professional musicians if it stops being a career?
This tool will help people who're not musically trained to express themselves musically.
What you are talking about I would call guessing :)

Fact of the matter is that sota LLMs are highly accurate predictors for many topics, certainly above any living human in terms of total AUC of correct predictions on fact based questions. Some humans are better on certain topics, but noone can match total AUC since LLMs has such breadth.
Right? The only thing I fear for is the amount of generic AI generated trash that will be spawned among good music. But I'm super excited about this honestly, I only play guitar and have a musical mind but am absolutely horrible at production tools. Something like this could totally let me create a real production of what I imagine/hum/sing, which would otherwise be impossible.
Pretty much came into the comments to agree with the self-censorship part there.

But then the author did use 'Her' as the ideal example. That's a pretty good indicator they didn't get the point.
They don't need to be in opposition: it's enough that the changeability, correctness, and performance of solutions is uncorrelated for you to frequently need to tradeoff between them, especially given the inevitable tradeoff of all of these against time to write.
So you are judging him because you think he has caused more harm? Do you have any evidence to support your hypothesis that JFK has caused more harm? Which dangerous diseases have increased, and by how much?

JFK engaging with the science and advocating for safety, and nuance in the face of a clear interest by big pharma to suppress that, is not dangerous. But you spreading your simplistic reductions is dangerous. Can you not see that your simplistic reductions and emotional judgements, are doing the very thing that you are accusing others of doing?

I think you need to think about that! Hahahaha! :)
thats my first thought as well. I hope to see a study with n in the range of 100s maybe when kernel headsets hit the market and reduced their cost
You only have to go back to the Guangxi Massacre[1] during the Cultural Revolution to see that historically the CCP has not had a problem with killing its own people. They used some pretty inventive ways to do it too.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre
Tried it in Bard and got:

BBBB... (until the program is stopped)
It's not just a question of overall EROEI. Building wind farms requires most of the energy to be invested up front, whereas the return on that investment happens over decades. This means that the worse energy availability is right now and the more painful the other things we have to stop doing to make some available to build renewables, the more expensive energy from those renewables will be. One consequence of this is that demands from groups like Just Stop Oil to cut back fossil fuel production before replacements are ready will make constructing those replacements less viable, basically permanently locking in higher energy prices, worse availability, and more poverty. (For some proponents this is definitely seen as a feature; there's opposition to using technology to continue to maintain our current lifestyles.)

As you say, energy is fungible, which means that if we do actually manage to build sufficient renewables first this in theory becomes much less of a problem because we can use their output to meet our energy demand and offset the decline of fossil fuel production.

The economics of nuclear power are somewhat similar, whilst I think fossil fuels with poor EROEI are a little different in that more of the energy consumption is spread out over the production life. Also, the UK has unfortunately been struggling to build new nuclear like most countries, and the amount of time construction has been taking would be a huge issue even if the EROEI was good.
> since it's not possible natively.

It is possible natively. The logic, however, needs to be implemented in the compositor not the applications, because it's the compositor that keeps track of the positions of the windows.
To imagine these apps aren’t already doing such is a hard sell imo.

Full disclosure: I’ve paid for several AI services so far, most in the realm of “virtual girlfriend” experiences, and they all generally are more than subpar. Mind you, I have a couple of IRL partners. I also enjoy the act of sexual roleplaying, and finding reasonably expressive human partners is time-consuming. The “Girlfriend AI” options are pretty terrible though - I’ll take character.ai with its heavy moderation any day.

But if I’m paying to try these and explore and see what works, I’m certain that wallets are being drained already. Is this a problem? Could be, at least for some - to think otherwise feels disingenuous. The question will come down to how we address it: do we have frank conversations with people about the risks of devoting potential social time to AI engagement, or do people clamor for the AI backing tech to button up and become even more prudish?
1) The driver can see a child standing directly in front of the bus.

2) People with less-than-ideal mobility (obese children, short or very young children, children carrying a heavy bag) don't have to clamber up or down stairs.

See the link, around half the seats are step-free within the bus. That's a city bus configuration, of course it would be adjusted for a bus used only for school transport (no centre door, all seats facing forward etc). Alternatively, keep the centre doors and the child in a wheelchair can then take the normal bus with everyone else and not feel excluded — though this is a significant reduction in capacity assuming you want everyone to have a seat.

https://www.avtobusi.com/en/mercedes-benz-city-bus/
Markdown was the form of plain text I tried.

I really want some official guidance that documents what works best!
Rust should work if the Rust compiler can generate DWARF info for WASM targets. Java most likely not.
Then why does it run on horse power?
> antidepressants can help people fix root causes

Nit-picking rather than disagreeing, but feel it worth making more obvious in the wording: antidepressants can help people deal with the symptoms while they find/fix root causes. Being on them for an extended time can bring its own problems.
If you’re not watching a multi feed then why even bother, you’re just going to see smoke and static half the time
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020
Does that mean Kubernetes is serverless? Especially something like GKE autopilot?
There are facts (aka truth), for example, as to what sentences or words are actually in a document and which ones are not. Having LLMs evolve us into complete incompetence as to basic facts is not the way forward.
We used to play the dos port of this on a 386. However every so often it would ask us for a question to answer from the manual which we didn't have lol. Super cool you could build tracks, it was insanely impressive for 386.
Plenty of people make music for fun while having other careers. A lot of the masterpiece painters did it for passion and lived in poverty (I'm not saying that is good, but clearly a career is not necessary for great results).
Hahah! :) In this case it doesn't matter, because Rogan does not affect the truth or falsity of what he's saying. But regarding JR, do you have any evidence to support that about Rogan?

You suggest that you can't tell whether he's rational in conversation with Rogan because Rogan doesn't challenge, but you don't need another to challenge, you merely need to listen to him talk and decide yourself.

Rogan is merely helpfully providing a platform where the guy is talking. Hahaha! :)
>Composer? no. Performer? no.

Not even audience, since few care for music with any real passion anymore among the masses (not even teens).

It became a niche, or something you put in the background. As for "popular" concerts and festivals, they are more like country fairs...
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I think I need to go lie down
I like playing video games with a computer. I also like playing music with a computer.

I've learned far quicker playing chess against an AI than I would have playing against humans. And yet I still really enjoy playing against humans too. In fact the experience playing against humans is richer thanks to a deeper understanding of the game that came from AI.

Your argument is along the same lines as arguing electric guitar is lifeless when compared to the non-machine acoustic version. When what really matters is who is operating the machine. AI is just another tool. It will be used in insensitive mechanical ways and in ways that deeply enrich our lives.
Shockingly high rates even for the best and way too high for any critical application without proper supervision. Even a factor 10 better at the top is probably still not good enough for some things.
And this doesn’t just cover sexually NSFW content - anything trending towards topics like violence and suicide is also off the table for most AI backends from what I understand.

I struggle to see the benefit of this kind of censorship as well, it has a very “video games make people murders” vibe. That we’re being protected, for our own good, from…horny robots?
Nope. You are often buying people's old collections that they are getting rid of or downsizing due to space and available streaming options. There's lots of bargains on Blu rays and DVDs these days.

I'm finding I'm snapping up loads of <$10 Blu rays from brick and mortar stores now too. I'm enjoying the more deliberate choice of a movie rather than endlessly browsing streaming sites.
There is a point where performance optimizations get in the way of clarity, but that's after a long plateau where simple software == fast software. And simple software is the most amenable to changeability. It might not be the fastest way to initially write the software though, as leveraging existing large complex frameworks can give an head start to someone familiar with it.
Specifically, the "universal function approximate" thing means no more and no less than the relatively trivial fact that if you draw a bunch of straight line segments you can approximate any (1D, suitably well-behaved) function as closely as you want by making the lines really short. Translating that to N dimensions and casting it into exactly the form that applies to neural networks and then making the proof solid isn't even that tough, it's mostly trivial once you write down the right definitions.
Yes, but most retro computing enthusiasts are more than happy to run retro software as well, because that's where the fun is. Running a 2023 OS on 1993 hardware is going to be a frustrating experience anyway even if you get it to work because of the relative change in performance since then. Hardware is usually best matched with software from roughly the same era if you want anything close to acceptable performance.

My oldest still-in-use hardware is now 15 years old and I'm amazed it does as well as it does but I'm also quite aware of the limitations and that stuff was absolutely top-of-the-line when it was bought. Parts are unobtanium and if it goes (which could happen every time it power cycles) we'll probably hold a small service but not cry too much.
Bit of a noob-ish question: But why can't folks just continue to use older versions of the kernel, with the ia64 support?
Personally id be quite disappointed if I were memorialised for

gem 'sdoc', require: false

Maybe we should all set up a commit for after we die that would be a commit we're actually happy with.
Your snide insults justify misanthropy. It is easy then to decide that being away from people who think and behave as you did, for example by pursuing solitude, may help prevent developing a misanthropic attitude. Even a strange person with a family and friends and a populated city environment can recognize that we need to get away from your way of being.
I think there's more than chips there. The US have a very strong military presence in the pacific. Giving up on Taiwan would send the messages to US allies there that they're on their own and that they need to change their allegiance.
I have and am. I got the PTSD diagnosed when I was trying to get the ADHD one done. And most of the sorting things out is directly related to the PTSD aspect, rather than ADHD.
I think the point is the LLM arrives at an obvious and undeniable fact, a misconception common in human discourse, an assertion of something unknowable, a statement of what appears to be opinion, a "creative" response to a brief (both impressive and unimpressive), a reasonable "guess" and a random answer which is only very loosely linked to the prompt in essentially the same way. Humans generally arrive at such responses in different ways, and are often conscious when they're certain, reasonably confident, guessing, needimg an answer to be a particular way to fit their wider goal or bullshitting

So if it's "hallucinating" a probable continuation which asserts something which is [incidentally] understood to be completely wrong or not in the source material by humans, it's going through exactly the same process to arrive at a continuation which [incidentally] is understood to contain only accurate statements or valid summarizations
Aider might be what you are looking for

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
Oh god I'd forgotten about Magento, ok yeah that taks first place without a doubt!
I wonder how many got sold or if it was just a run to fulfill that contract and nothing else.
What we do as humans is to push against a wall of mist of a unlimited search space.

Doesn't matter if it is music, drawing or scientific discoveries.

What an Artist does is pushing the boundaries.

Having tools like ths allows much more people to push and not 'just' the artists who mastered certain skills.

I can write very good software, do i care if my family suddenly can also write softwre thanks to ai? Honestly no. My goal was never to write code but always to create something which adds value to my life or to others.

I would not have thought that we will achieve this level so fast but yes writing code and using certain tools will be not necessary in the near future.

But hopefully we will have more time to learn all of those skills for the sake of having fun learning them.

I have a very good sense of what music sounds good to me and what art looks good to me. Should i be not allowed to create my own art even if its through tools like SD, Midjourney and co?

don't be that type of person
It doesn't have to be something that you can objectively measure to exist and people to be able to recognize it (even if not perfectly) - which is the whole point of Z.A.M.M. by the way.
Yes, but also why there aren’t any RCS iOS out so users can choose?
Track point offers the unbeatable awesomeness of "analogue" reaction

- the harder you push, the faster the mouse goes.

- 360 (or whatever the effective number of directions you can push with a finger) is also much richer than 4

You can't replicate it with binary down/up buttons, so QMK-like support isn't a good replacement.

(at least for the first one you could have a newer generation of keyboards that have "analogue" buttons the track more than 2 positions)
The mic quality is so poor though. I have to turn off Bluetooth to record voice notes to people.

Also if you drop them the earbuds always go flying.
How many of these systems are still used in production today? Is there any info on that? Does anybody here still run one?
They're super productive when you're unfamiliar with the subject matter, do it once only or can't code at all.

Anyone can watch a couple of videos, launch Blender, start with a cube and work it into a chair in UI. Coding that for just one chair will take almost anyone more time.

Now if you need to do this to make 10 slightly different chairs where changes need to be made early on in the process, code will win even with first timers.
I have legitimately thought about training an LLM on my writings and doing something similar
Well, it's better than "in conversation" with you. Hahahahahaha! :)

Yikes. Micro-comment.

So you're suggesting that a conversation with Rogan is something you should be afraid of? Or not trusted?

You do realize that Rogan doesn't affect the truth of falsity of what he's saying, right? Hahahaha! :)
It's not that the choice is taken away. It's that it is going to be even more buried under an avalanche of industry-normalised, generated crap (crap because generated and industry-normalised).

And second, you express yourself, you said it. If a generator produces something, it's not _your_ expression, per definition. You may still have "constrained" it among myriad of possibilities through your prompt, it is still the production of the generator, not yours.

Example: when I play something on a Mellotron, I cannot claim that I played the flutes or violins recorded there. Those are definitely not mine. What I do play with it, what I sing above it, yes, maybe because I produce/play those, with what I understood of my previous musical education/experience.

That's, fundamentally different.
A different way to state the claim may be "whatever LLMs do, they do it all the time"

There are no separate modes of operation when GPT-4 is telling me about Javascript's "console.log" method, and when it's telling me about Rackets non-existing "sum" function. The network has no way of telling that the strands of probability are wearing thin under it's feet. The engine spins and churns out another token and we deem it "correct" or "incorrect".
I wish this was true but it's not my experience. When we switched to WFH during covid, the same people (not all of them of course) who were nice, courteous, and helpful in person, turned to dismissive a-hole towards their peers on-line.

You see, it's more damaging for you to be an a-hole in person in the (open) office because then everyone can see and hear you and know who you really are as a person, but in chats you can be as dickish and as dismissive as you like and nobody else, especially your boss will be the wiser thinking still that you're a great guy.

This behavior is more difficult to pull off in the office where everyone can see what you're up to and your boss can come up to you saying "hey Anton, can you please stop playing World of Tanks and help Joe solve that issue?" versus WFH where Anton can paly world of tanks undisturbed while complaining he can't help anyone right now because he's super busy.

It's not universal behavior of course, and I'm not advocating for RTO or workplace surveillance, but exclusively 'on-line' presence does tend to bring out the worse in some people, especially out of those who are not contempt with their job they chose and will do anything, other than quit, to not do their duties and hold others back.