skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond the (absolutely correct) sibling comment about von Neumann's dated expertise, you are experiencing selectivity bias. Technologists who believe in the Singularity (and it really is belief, not a rigorous technical argument), are very vocal about it. Those that don't have faith, don't bother speaking about it.

There are a lot of people out there who believe in technological progressivism and continued advancement of socially beneficial technologies. They just don't speak about a "singularity" beyond which predictive power is not possible, because the idea isn't worth spending time on as it isn't even self-consistent.

It's not our job to show why the Singularity won't happen. It's the nutjobs who believe in the Singularity who have the responsibility of showing why. In the 70 years in which people have been bitten by this idea, nobody has. I'll wait.
Have you heard of a Boltman Brain? It's the kind of absurdity that happens when people think seriously about this in the real, actual universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Logic is stellar. Why would you feel like its being abandoned? Professional tools don't change UX every 2 years.
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Combining Pixelmator and Procreate via airdrop is such a nice workflow. I'm happy for the team and I'm holding out hope this will be good for Mac users in the long run. A Blackmagic acquisition would also be interesting. It's too bad there isn't a vector drawing app that's at the same level of Mac integration as Pixelmator. I've used Inkscape and it was amazing but unfortunately very slow.
PacCam: Pac-Man controlled with your face
It defaults to the maximum resolution of the first clip that you import. So if you import a 720p movie first and want to export to 4k later on, you can't. You can export smaller but not larger. To export at 4K, you have to get rid of everything, import a 4k clip, and put everything back. And even then, resolutions are preset, you can't do a custom resolution.
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Yeah. It's been the case for a while now that if someone just wants a general computer, they buy a laptop (even commonly a mac).

That's why the default advice if you're looking for 'value' is to buy a gaming console to complement your laptop. Both will excel at their separate roles for a decade without requiring much in the way of upgrades.

The desktop pc market these days is a luxury 'prosumer' market that doesn't really care about value as much. It feels like we're going back to the late 90's, early 2000's.
Here's an article about a guy who went to 50 different dentists and had some wild diagnoses.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022911
"Infinite monkeys" would produce Shakespeare and every other book, document, and all future possible book and document in the amount of time equal to the number of letters in the book and the typing rate of a monkey. It wouldn't take an infinite amount of time. :)
Not such a secret. This has been a long standing lesson in unconventional warfare. One of those indicators that confidence in size and technology can be its own precursor of doom (btw, the strategic genius who kicked the military’s ass was a brilliant decorated US military officer, who was told to “stop that.”)
Wow.. that was a fun rabbit hole to go down. Makes me wish HN wasn't pushing a bunch of traffic to them this morning.
This is the Cleopatra that was also known as 'Clee'. Different to 'Patty', 'Cleo' or 'Trish'. All of whom were the most beautiful woman in the world in their time :)
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I use Cenon for my CAM. I didn’t realize it was open source and I never expected to hear anyone else mention it.
My guess is that this a purchase of what will become the ever missing “MS Paint.”

It’s kinda wild that macOS bundles Garage Band but doesn’t come with anything for graphics.
Objects are made by men and used for many purposes. But we never love objects
The data is massively interconnected too: if Apple releases new m chip, people flood here to see if there's a thread on it, while browsing they may be more or less likely to see other threads given that first case.
"Everything is heap allocated"

Well, the second look would prove it false, so maybe it is worth it after all.
He attacked her and her audience, it was hardly an indictment on her arguments. Dripping with ad hominem.
I have but it was corporate, fintech setting where Windows stations rule the place. She was a really good graphics designer too. Surprised me as well.
The canonical source data for this is https://www.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/CaseFolding.txt, by the way.
I believe it is. Current k9mail and thunderbird are the exact same codebase and exact same dev team.
Well deserved. Congratulations to the Pixelmator team!
> It does contain harmful compounds. It wouldn't work to prevent growth otherwise.

Nowadays there exists bottom paints such as polysiloxane based ones that work by creating a very hard and smooth surface that critters find it very hard to attach to, rather than poisoning them.
Bohr and Einstein would be aghast at the idea of someone giving them credibility for who they are rather than questioning the merits of their ideas.

It should perhaps give you pause that you’re implicitly conflating a group of arrogant capitalists with historical greats of science. Altman or Musk are not building or researching AI, they are marketing and selling it, and they will continue to do so in spite of the current or future state or capabilities.

I would be careful not to confuse the loudest in the room with the smartest.
I agree but it's getting better every day and the growth has been phenomenal. Just look at the number of tutorials on youtube etc.
See also the blog post by the author: https://vadimdemedes.com/posts/moving-on-from-ink
This is exactly what a dentist tried to do to me! My normal dentist wasn’t available so I saw another one (she had great google reviews!). This dentist said I had a tooth that was bad and she would have to do an implant, but then I should do all the teeth around it because otherwise “it will look weird”. She told me it was urgent and had to be done in like a month. Quote was about $10k (I live in South Africa and this amount of money is even more ridiculous here). Then gave me all the info on how I could finance it. I went back to my normal dentist and she said yeah, just need one filling and we’re good. Saw another dentist too, and she also agreed I didn’t need a full set of new teeth.

Anyway, I was chatting to a friend after this experience and it turned out this dentist had sexually harassed him in addition to doing a bunch of unneeded procedures (without telling him what she was doing).
Do you have a source for folks doing motion graphics with Resolve? Always curious to hear more data points on this. The impression I have from reading online is I'd be shocked if they had over 1% of the market, but it's purely anecdotal.
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>> Your first quote leaves off the important bit: against the headwinds of Google culture.

I would also add all of the companies that were bought by Google in hopes they would ease some of the laser focus on their search/ad business and never panned out and then were subsequently killed by them.

I think this one of the overlooked issues they've had. When they've repeatedly tried to venture into other areas by buying smaller companies in hopes they could grow their revenue and create another revenue stream, the failure rate of those companies is pretty staggering.

All three of these have not made it easy for them to try and re-brand themselves as anything but a search/ad company.
It doesn't appear that they got any money for this, so I'm more forgiving of mathematicians just dicking around with something for fun.

Still, it's a very bizarre assertion to make; it's like they're trying to debunk something that no one claimed.

ETA:

Maybe they were trying to prevent the Mr Burns' of the world from trying to experiment: https://youtu.be/no_elVGGgW8
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I mean I really don't understand how: you can think that today's llms are going to be the same tomorrow as scaling is exponential, it's non sensical thinking to me and 2) how there is expert consensus on it but still not get it. That's why I made the thread. It doesn't bother me at all, I'm not in the field anymore I made the thread to see how far detached is the tech crowd from what is happening.
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"treated" is an ambiguous word here and the headline for me is:

> Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
It depends. When someone is doing a real serious search, they will check the linked references, in which case they will visit TomsGuide if it's a cited reference. In contrast, when someone is doing a non-serious casual search, they typically won't visit the linked site. Overall, it will cut the visits by ~80%, but that takes us back to the early 2000s level of page hits, when good sites like TomsGuide could then still thrive.
Is there any way this can go bad?

When Apple acquired DarkSky, they absolutely destroyed a service that I loved and relied on. Four years on, Apple Weather is less reliable than DarkSky, and not even close to feature complete.

But DarkSky was a cross-platform service, whereas Pixelmator is software that's already Apple-only. I'm wondering how much I should be worried, and if I should already be abandoning ship.
I believe that probability could plausibly be zero.
In the US, dentistry isn't a specialization of medicine. Medical specializations have to go to medical school then residency first before specializing. Dentists just go to dental school. Dentists in the US aren't medical doctors any more than JDs or PhDs are.
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That's not accurate. You can explicitly bake in these types of search behaviors with model training.

People do this in ecommerce with the concept of user embeddings and product embeddings, where the result of personalized recommendations is just a user embedding search.
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Really glad for them. Pixelmator Pro is my go-to image editing software. Reminds me of Fireworks (which I really liked, but then Adobe happened) with slightly worse vector functionalities.

Curious if anybody has a good “combined” editor to suggest.
> final cut and logic feel simultaneously actively developed and abandoned to me, there's just not much buzz around them.

They're professional tools. For use by people who are paid to use them. You don't want there to be buzz, you want them to just work.

Buzz is a godawful metric for useful software.
Well, in this case I'd be fine with client-side Blazor (WASM mode), as there is a mature REST API and it is an internal app where SEO etc is not important. But yes, routing is one hassle as well as the complexity for developers etc. We had this issue some when we did the api: ie say an issue was reported - developers would first have to figure out "is this a problem in apiv1 or apiv2, or in the way apiv2 proxies to apiv1?" Absolutely needs to be buy in that we're going to commit to finishing the migration in a reasonable time.

I still like that we did strangler pattern for the API vs the "rip the bandaid off" pattern, but it does carry some baggage that can be glossed over in some articles about it.
I don't know, go has lackluster expressivity, and these pre-compile tools always feel like a hack in its case.
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I tried to call explain the same thing to you that I was alluding and commenting on their business model to fundamentally change if the UI changes. It’s worse than the business model changing because from an end user perspective they will be chqnging to meet ChatGPT’s UI which will seem like much larger capitulation. I think we understand each other now though :)
> vs Gemini

The issue is that the free version of Gemini remains really bad. Perhaps the paid version of Gemini is better, but that's not available to most people.
Was a beta tester for some of the early generations.

They were a joy to repair: every part was made to be easily replaced, not "engineered" with glue, or pegs that break.

Could tell it was tech started at the MIT AI Labs.
Though I believe the cost of education isn't the only explanation I also think it's unwise to ignore systemic problems, blaming and prosecuting individuals won't make them disappear.
Why SlateDB is the right storage engine for stream processing
Nearly 15 years ago I had to intervene on behalf of my elderly mother who had some tooth pain and went to a local dentist. The dentist wanted to replace all her teeth with implants. When she mentioned what the dentist recommended, I was shocked and went with her. Turns out the dentist was a scumbag who was ticked off the I was questioning him about the procedure and wasting his time. So I took my mother to my own dentist and they said it was just a minor cavity and took care of it. My mother has had no teeth problems since then.
I think that machine is this M1 Pro MBP I'm using right now, and will probably still be using in 20 years.
I posted this link because, having taken their Elixir and OTP course, I think their video content is the best in the business by far.
Okay so it does work.
> one isn't inherently right and one isn't inherently wrong

While I agree that's true in a vacuum, the situation here is different. There are people who signed on to work for Amazon assuming that remote work would be an option, and now the deal is being changed unilaterally with (apparently) no compensation to the formerly-remote employees, and no valid data-driven reason.

THAT is wrong.
This is done with two models in most standard biencoder approaches. This is how multimodal embedding search works. We want to train a model such that the location of the text embeddings that represent an item and the image embeddings for that item are colocated.
I’m not so sure. For me a reliable way to find a “good” dentist is to find one that’s attached to a (big) medical school or university. Of course this is easier to do in cities than in rural areas though. I’d always take a waiting list and, say, a dentist from the UC system than one that’s a regular practice.
My dentist’s office is nice but it’s clear he gets customer LTV. Most of the time he advises I do nothing. Then there are some that he advises we do. Overall I like him.