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> negative PR

Laughs in Larry Ellison

It is just transactional corporate logic. You do not give up something unless you get something of greater value in return. You do not do things for good will, you do things for PR, etc. and sure as hell don’t let them fly under the radar. If some middle or senior manager let that fly without a blessing from the top, they would be ostracized.

I’m not saying it’s right, but I’ve been part of that culture and understand it very well.

Part of owning trademarks is defending them, and Oracle has plenty, so the cost is de minimis.

Even if the trademark is not doing anything for them now, it provides optionally they would not otherwise have. It may also be a negotiation tool down the road.
There’s a decent supercollider implementation as well

https://github.com/everythingwillbetakenaway/DX7-Supercollid...
Two more tools I really enjoy:

- https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ - electron based and I find it really simple to use.

- https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls - generate markdown docs from databases (similar to DbVisualizer, but it's a static binary and you can just push the md files - see https://github.com/bbkane/envelope/tree/master/dbdoc for example)
Your argument hinges on my work being more profitable than a care assistants. While that's maybe true, the difference showing in GDP is not the difference of profitability or "value" in our work. What if I'm a care assistant myself? Imagine two care assistants and two scenarios:

1. They are working from Monday to Saturday. They can't take Saturday off, so they hire a care assistant to take care of their grandma on Saturdays, they happen to hire each other.

2. They are working from Monday to Friday. They take care of their own grandma over the weekends.

Scenario 1 adds more to the national GDP.
Present-day developed world must look a lot like utopia for a medieval serf. And we're now feeding 8 billion as opposed to, what, 2 billion before the green revolution. The exaggerations are only slight.
Yes you are right, I think I was referring to London, not UK (although 8.25 ratio for the UK is pretty bad given that it was around 4-5 not that long ago).

Average London salary: £44,000
Average London House: £531,000

There are many other UK-wide statistics pointing out to the jump in housing unaffordability (including rent) over the last 5 years.

Even if house prices is slightly more sane outside metropolitan, one needs to factor in how difficult it is to find jobs outside metropolitan areas, so the quantity of jobs outside expensive metropolitan areas need to be factored in, not just the average salary.
True, but our consciousness comes with an integral moral compass that we are completely free to utterly ignore or even act in opposition to. It's our gift and our responsibility, and our absolute choice, for good or ill.
I think we ought to be careful to live our lives and act in such a way that people don't feel celebrate our deaths.
This group of conversations is what I was thinking of:
https://x.com/seb_far/status/1803446067343556872
https://oatml.cs.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/06/19/detecting_hallucin...

Some people in the Open Source community I think implemented it a few months ago as Shrek Entropy Sampeling and it got a pop in circulation (https://github.com/xjdr-alt/entropix)

best of luck!
It's the right time for my Web3 project, but I quit: lessons learned
>Well, let's be clear: the speakers are just for noodling.

Just for noodling. And trying it in a store. And playing with friends (you don't need much to play along an acoustic guitar). Or playing and singing in a room, or next to a campfire.

All of these applications don't require big cabinets; beefing up the speakers to 5W (and adding a bit more bass response) would do a lot for the reface DX.

>Nobody who performs would use the built-in speakers of such a keyboard, not even street performers.

Well, that's exactly my point (though I've yet to see a street performer with a Reface DX, other than myself, that is).

The portable amps I do use with the DX can be easily built into the body (I have the keytar strap, and even duck taping a micro amp to the keyboard gives enough firepower for street performances).

The built-in speakers on 1980s keyboards were much louder.

>- the only exception is the big-ass speakers in digital home pianos, and still those are only for home use.

This is not quite true.

Check out the small amps coming out these days, that make Roland Cube Street look huge in comparison.

Blackstar Fly is a respectable example; there are many others.

There is no good reason why something like that can't come built into the keyboard.
> everything up to today is perfectly explainable with advanced statistics and NLP

Is there some concrete task or behavior that, if demonstrated, you believe wouldn't be explainable by advanced statistics and NLP?

In my mind even human/animal behavior is in theory explainable with advanced statistics.
It seems like it might be taught. I live in a Chicago neighborhood and have all of these things (a yard with a garden, space for woodworking, neighbors with pools, privacy, quiet space, strong community).

Not everyone who lives in a city is in a highrise downtown, most aren't. Not everyone that lives in a city is in an apartment. You wouldn't know that by reading this thread. The two options seem to be a large house in the suburbs or a highrise downtown.
For those using them according to prescriptions maybe, sure. But the opioid crisis isn't an opioid crisis because people are using them according to what their doc told them. It's a crisis because they are abused.
EDIT: OK phew! Never mind. :)
All cleared up while I was writing, so now disregard. But here is what I think of this product....

AMA? Ok you asked. Why do you not seem embarassed to have anything to do with this?

I don't mean working on easybcd or working on integration with Windows in general, those are fine and admirable, I mean this jank ass valueless ripoff product.

For a second there I actually thought "opportunity to donate" was a joke you were making that they ripped you off like the guy stealing the bios for that 8088 laptop, but you seem to be sincerely pleased to be assosciated with this.

Maybe you're just young, in which case I advise, don't link yourself to crap like this.

If you want to work on a system that emulates Windows, at least find one that has the basic integrity not to copy actual MS assets and doesn't actually try to confuse or deceive anyone. The fact that they found someone else who is redistributing copyrighted and trademarked images first and so they think this protects them legally doesn't make it any better. That is actually just yet more sleaze.
The traditional Hoare logic is the "partial correctness" form - if the program state satisfies a precondition, and executing the program terminates with some other state, then the second state satisfies the postcondition. This is "correctness" in the sense it overapproximates all executions: if the postcondition says something about the state being "good", the precondition ensures you end in a "good" state, but perhaps there are more "good" states than actually reachable ones. It's partial because nothing is said about non-terminating executions.

A more recent idea was to flip this correctness logic to get an incorrectness logic, which says if you can reach a "bad" state (this is useful for bug detection.) In such a logic, you only want to know about reachable states, so the formula gets flipped: if the final program state satisfies the postcondition, then there must be a program state satisfying the precondition that can execute the program and terminate in that final state.

The difference between these two logics is one axis of this cube. There are other possible logics: you can ask if a precondition is necessary - that is, is the postcondition only reachable from states satisfying the precondition? It turns out there are two orthogonal approaches to stating such a property, and they form the other two axes of the cube.
I host my blog on my own website on DigitalOcean fronted by Cloudflare, and it's been fine.

LLMs make it easier than ever to self-host a blog, because I can outsource all the annoying boilerplate to them.

Cloudflare allegedly has a feature that lets you block AI scrapers with one click. I haven't tried it though - I personally don't mind my content getting scraped.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
> they're union members, they get paid overtime

Very few surgeons are union members. They frequently work for outside groups and are paid per procedure. The ones that do work for the hospital on salary don’t get overtime.

>status is equivalent to doctors

They are doctors. Both in title and in function. Most surgeons only operate a couple days a week. The rest of their time they see patients in clinic, and an outside observer couldn’t tell the difference between their work environment and a primary care physician’s.

You are onto something though. My wife is an ER doctor and her job is very similar to blue collar service jobs (if you consider service jobs blue collar).

She doesn’t make her own schedule. She works insane shifts (one day she could work 7a-4p, the next 10p-7a). She interacts with patients directly all day.

The pay is a lot better, but the hours are worse than any retail job I’ve ever heard of, and you can’t call in sick. Her coworker was sick and could barely get out of bed, but she came in early to have a nurse give her an IV so she could power through her shift—that kind of thing is very common.

Plus you have the ultimate responsibility for every patient that comes through the door. You have to make sure you don’t miss anything serious every time—while at the same time, making sure that you don’t spend too much time with each patient. And the ER you’re working in is full because the floor is too full to admit new patients but the ER can’t just shut the door, so patients are boarding in the halls.

Oh and if you mess up, you can literally lose your house when a jury awards someone more than your malpractice insurance will cover.
Many suburbs are accounting for this in other ways already, by foisting ownership of that local infrastructure onto the HOA instead of handling them centrally through taxes or direct billing.
Well said. Although cool in a technical sense, I can't get myself to open the site because of ethical reasons. However, in my younger more ego driven coding days I would have looked at it like a really fun challenge and a chance to show everyone my skills. The ethics of it would have been an afterthought.
Genetic basis of right and left ventricular heart shape
Some CV is AI, like "identify pictures of cats", but not straightforward filters in an algorithm such as "narrow the bands of visible light to those that make existing mineshafts stand out, then scan the entire continent recording the top 20% of matches for this value (with some wiggle room to account for variants)".

That is very much manual intelligence
Not forgetting aftertouch.
Any metric that most directly relates to military spending ability seems the most pertinent these days. But of course GDP doesn’t relate to quality of life—I don’t think anyone suggested it did but of course many think it should.
Does this not undermine the premise of the original metaphor (i.e. a glass of lemonade is somehow inferior to a fine wine)? Seems like a lot of goal post shifting.
What's an "ETL" job?

Totally get your point about being able to go faster with tight specification of the expected inputs!

And yeah awk is renowned for being able to crunch through things (especially huge volumes of text) at quite an astounding rate for a scripting language!
I tend to agree, what is being lost in most recent discussions on Human Level AI, is the focus on Language and LLM's.

There are plenty of other researchers and companies working on non-LLM models. And there you start getting a little more 'human' like reasoning.

Maybe eventually the LLM will just be the 'human interface' to a different AI model underneath, that does have a model of the world, and goals that it is charting through the real-world complexity and not just a game simulation.
If you dare, you can read my recent comment history for the explanation, but I doubt you're going to like it. And it is the explanation. Someone had to do it!
Great to have these improvements! However, it seems the overhead to create the shareable files exceeds the utility for most cases. Would love this work continues until we get a one line „pip share“ and „pip load“ type tooling.
> whether someone who speaks the language and has a general relevant technical background would understand what the name means

You are meaning in the case where there is already a well-known name for what is being described? That is reasonable, but in the article there is no pre-existing term known among those with relevant technical background for what is being described. A new name was warranted. Words have to start somewhere. All the words we know began life arbitrary and made-up.
They probably just ignore all the confounding variables and focus on what can be measured.
Yamaha reface dx goes for 250 on the used market. It’s totally worth the money if you understand its limitations.
Family homes in the best suburbs are also very expensive, even after being subsidize by the broader tax base. There are lots of places to live in cities that aren't the "city center" just like there are types of family homes that aren't single-family-homes.
Hi, I am really interested in your project. Can you email me when you release: zitterbewegung at gmail dot com
If you marry your fitness trainer, GDP goes down :)

There are some good talks of Mariana Mazzucato about it (and questioning of what we consider value in economy) [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZSdgQB99w
It's adjusted for CPI, which is probably a flawed measurement of price level, due to things like hedonic adjustments.
Prison sentence in Russia is like a death sentence. See Navalny, see Sergei Magnitsky. I would be surprised if Arseny Turbin makes it out alive.
If not mistreatment, then hepatitis, tuberculosis, etc are there to get him.
Liquid AI's new STAR model architecture outshines Transformer efficiency
I can't shake this feeling that BCI-control-anything is a very bad idea overall.

What will happen if, in a moment of weakness, the user thinks to just "W" into the middle of the street? They weren't actually going to, but with a BCI-controlled wheelchair I feel like it's hard to make this distinction.
Encryption won't help you much if you are not the one hosting the server and they disappear ...
This sounds like an enormous footgun (but as I understand it there are warnings that will tell you). An object isn't "valid" in any reasonable business logic sense just because the fields are initialized to anything at all, such as their default state? If the valid state of a Person is "the name is not empty " and this is enforced by a constructor then I don't want the program to ever have Person object floating around with a blank name? I either want a compiler error (good) or an immediate crash at runtime (bad), but at least I don't want an invalid object in a still running program (worse). Maybe I misunderstand what the reset was or how big this risk is though.
> Give it about 2 years and you’ll realize you were incredibly wrong about this take. [...] but it will become undeniable in roughly 2 years time.

I recall reading similar statements more than 2 years ago...
No foundation? What do you think all these libraries and frameworks are built on???

The true path to having a "deep" front-end toolbox is in learning things that are not libraries. Here is a "long-lasting" frontend list that really just scratches the surface:

- CSS(animations, advanced layouts etc...)

- HTML(canvas, accessibility, svgs...)

- websockets, advanced networking

- advanced browser APIs(indexdb, mouse/touch events, events in general, WebGL...)

- high performance js, perf monitoring

Its really just DOM/state manipulation, and different levels of caching that frameworks provide.
Terrorism is a catch-all word. And it's quite an effective one at making blanket statements with no nuance.
If only new forms of poetry are valid, doesn’t that invalidate 99.9% of poetry created by human beings?
It's tailor made to describe the phenomenon of animal intelligence that we're trying to model.

The only tailoring which goes on is by those who say, "we can only do X, therefore Y must be defined in terms of X". It's deeply pseudoscientific approach to investigation, as it completely abandons a scientific theory of empirical phenomenon over a purely circumstantial account given in terms of what tools we have to hand.

I can think of no other area where such an approach to investigation is permitted.
Tell that to the person who acts in self defense when someone breaks into their home.
Ask HN: What do you think of this grading system for high school?
A student’s yearly average is capped at 80%, but they can score higher than 80% in individual subjects. At the end of the school year, if their average is above 80%, they get to choose which grades to lower until it meets the cap.

Even with the 80% cap, it is still possible to score 100% in some subjects, and universities could focus on the grades in key subjects rather than just the overall average.

Do you think this grading system would reduce stress and encourage career planning?
That's just the unclear messaging that the right wing is taking advantage of. I don't have a NYT subscription so I can't see the whole article, but as far as I can tell, there's nothing in that article that mentions actually preventing companies from offering private health insurance--it's just assumed (correctly) that these companies will be operating at a miniscule fraction of their current scale when people can obtain health insurance from a single payer, because few people will pay for private health insurance when there are better, cheaper options.

As I've reiterated repeatedly, this isn't a loss of options. Health insurance companies can still operate and consumers can still pay for private health insurance, they'll simply be competing with a cheaper alternative that doesn't have a perverse incentive to deny care.

I suppose you could make the argument that there will be fewer options because some of these insurance companies will go bankrupt, but that's just capitalism--there's nothing about the current system which guarantees health insurance companies will remain solvent or guarantees a variety of insurance options. In practice there are many places in the U.S. where there's effectively only one health insurance option.
Release please
I actually disagree with bug for the same reason I disagree with hallucination: it creates the idea that there's an error in processing that needs to be fixed, rather than an inherent characteristic of the computing paradigm that needs to be managed.

To be accurate, a term would need to emphasize that it's describing an opinion about the output rather than something that happened inside the program. "Inaccuracies" would be one term that does that fairly well.
This is an amazingly simplistic view of what actually happens when doing taxes for everyone I have ever met. The number of deductions you need to consider and figure out if you qualify for, even for someone fresh out of college, can be overwhelming. Heck, anyone with a child may has tons of "is this deductible" expenses, above and beyond any child tax credits (which they may or may not qualify for).

I'm outside the "average" nowadays, but I've been paying someone to do my taxes for me for decades because I don't have the mental bandwidth to figure out all the things that could save me money on my taxes. All the way back to when I was earning well below the poverty line (though I paid someone less back then).
I wonder if a constraint like “prefer the single lines to be shorter” would favor the traditional Yūgiri over the current optimal version.
I do not understand how this article undermines the Kurgan Hypothesis. The modern horse enters the picture later according to those discoveries, but it is still within the right time frame and geographic location.
Yes, my recent comment history contains the explanation for why we have the potential for all of that but also to be true humanitarians. The short of it is that we can choose to learn how to be better by actually changing ourself, and then being a positive force in the world.

It is the Way, but we must choose it, after first seeking to escape our natural ignorance to the possibility.
Also the most recent version is compromised (8.3.42). 8.3.40 is safe.
Much comedy was born of the "bathe wearing your jeans" and lying on the bed trying to get tight jeans over the thighs, especially during the late 80s. Then came leggings and lycra woven into jeans that now allow slipping tight jeans on without too much fuss.
Plenty of people hoard classic synths like trophy pieces and never use them. Which sucks for people interested in making music or starting a new hobby with some old gear.

It’s probably one of the most popular things to do in the music scene.
Of course they are a bug. Just that hallucination emerge from the normal function of a LLM doesn't make it "not a bug".

No programmer in their right mind will call the lack of bound checking resulting in garbled output "not a bug", even though it is a totally normal thing to do from the point of view of a CPU. It is a bug and you need additional code to fix it, for example by checking for out-of-bounds condition and returning an error if it happens.

Same thing for LLM hallucinations. LLMs naturally hallucinate, but it is not what we want, so it is a bug. And to fix it, we need to engineer solutions that prevent the hallucinations from happening, maybe resulting in an "I don't know" response that would be analogous to an error message. How you do it may be different from a simple "if", with probabilities and all that, but the general idea is the same: recognizing error cases and responding accordingly.

I guess it is comes down to how you define a bug, but how else would you call a result that is not fit for purpose?
So do many other bags.

It feels weird to hear someone talk about the death of fashion, and in the same post, attack people's fashion.

If you want to wear your beaded fanny pack with sandals, more power to you.
> EIM+EIF

This is a new and unfamiliar term/acronym to me. It seems to be from RFC 7857, "Updates to Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7857

People may be more familiar with the various "cone" NAT variation definitions:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3489#section-5
The French Revolution is generally agreed to have started with the third estate forming their own assembly and storming the Bastille a month later to depose the king.

Whatever you think of Jan 6, we clearly haven't deposed the President nor has any vocal section of Congress formed their own legislature so any argument that the revolution has actually begun seems specious or is stretching the definition of the word "revolution" so much as to be meaningless.

Revolutions usually involve going through a door of no-return, and there's little evidence to suggest we've hit that point. Congress could, tomorrow, announce a wealth tax and sweeping reforms and etc and most aggrievances would be resolved.

We don't say a ball is on the ground just because it's in freefall and likely to be on the ground shortly barring any last-second intervention.
Thank you for clarifying; I had a very different read on your previous comment that was probably the opposite of your intent.
The German pension system is completely insane. There is no fund backing it, and disbursements already exceed contributions to the tune of 127B EUR per year (which is subsidized from the general budget) and the gap is only growing.

Probably explains a good chunk of Germany's and the EUs anemic growth. Simply put, that's 127B EUR that can't be spent investing in the future and growing the economy.