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Please post an update on HN once you have it working. It’s a fantastic idea.

Interesting.

This is, perhaps, the most novel and innovative use of a GPT model I have encountered so far.

It feels like you have invented a new product category. Maybe “category” isn’t the right term, a feature? This should be one of the ways to consume and interact with books in the future. It’s an amazing tool for better understanding the material, revising, replacing bookmarks in many cases, and so on. A fascinating advancement!

I want this to be bundled with every book I buy from now on.

What are you replying to, EGreg?

They could do this very gradually. First rename WhatsApp to Meta Messenger. Keep everything else the same. Then with interop being implemented slowly merge FB messenger into Meta Messenger.

I did that a few times and now just go to competitors instead. I don’t have time or desire to talk to a sales person and decline all their upsell options just to get the price.

Agree with you re enterprise pricing, but usually it’s differentiated quite clearly as an offering meant for high usage/scale.

#2 is interesting. I am very curious what the ultimate plan for having 2 messaging apps is (at least in Zuck’s head). My bet is that his fantasy is to eventually merge them into a single service: Meta Messenger.

Likely just old school chord progressions and pseudo-random note sequences. Maybe something more advanced but doesn’t sound like it to me.

I guess the “innovation” here is in the usage of better VST instruments (probably combinations that have been curated by a human).

The vast majority of very popular music is still created with emotions (even when those are forced). Human element is still critical, and I think will remain so for a very long time.

Algorithms have been able to spit out a cohesive sequence of notes for decades, that did not change anything in the music industry. Adding better production to it is far from enough to turn this into something that people would connect with.

Any time I am prompted to contact someone for pricing I assume it’s not going to be the minimum “starting from” price.

The awful miss-representation of what this tool is in the intro video.

“You know that tune that has been stuck in your head? Set it free!” - by… not actually being able to compose or select or affect the melody or the harmony?

You can pick the genre and the key. Is that the “tune” that has been stuck in your head: “hip-hop in A minor”?

The magic trick here is destruction of a forest, not confetti in a jacket sleeve.

This video doesn’t destroy a forest while the other ones do.

This and similar investigations are raising awareness of the harm of watching and promoting these scammy channels.

Bitcoin is obviously not a pyramid scheme [0]. Criticizing things you disagree with requires a bit more skill than just using labels that don’t apply.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme

Got it! If by “wilderness” they meant an unguided psychedelic trip then my advice would be similar to what I said earlier.

Do not go on an unguided trip if you have no experience and have mental issues. It could help you or could traumatize you severely. Psychedelics must be taken very seriously - advising to just take them and hope for the best is dangerously foolish.

Just speculating, but the number of people who are here legally but do not have a work permit is probably not significant in the construction business. Getting a long term visa requires so much effort and money, that it’s likely not feasible for this group of workers.

That basically describes my schedule and my habits.

One important thing to add to that: an online diet. I have The Guardian, Reddit, and a ton of other distracting content blocked on all devices (hosts files, NextDNS, etc).

Did you forget to add /s?

A person with severe PTSD would greatly benefit from being left alone in the wilderness. How come therapists didn’t think of that? Probably another Big Pharma conspiracy. /s

Yes, Ketamine assisted therapy is quite common.

Thanks for copying this over! I am guilty of quoting that famous speech too. Probably should stop doing that and read MLK’s works in more detail.

“This post is for paid subscribers”. Truly inspiring!

Haha we would need to meet in person for that to invalidate my previous statement!

It’s a good argument. I don’t fully agree we should limit the definition of value to only its (subjectively) productive quality. It’s like gambling - I personally don’t see value in it but, hey, many people love it so they get something from it.

> we've found value in digital things and may, thus, call them assets: e.g., data, media, and information/knowledge

> We have no way to deal with digital assets

Are you writing an ad for a new crypto platform that is definitely not a scam?

There are literally people on the Internet who are able to deal with data, media, information and knowledge without ever touching crypto. Amazing, right?

I have several friends who stake ETH. Never met a single miner in person.

I mean, not to defend Bitcoin, but if you have invested at $60 and sold at $60K - it has provided tremendous value. Most people are going to lose money on this “investment”, but just saying that it provides no value at all is a tired argument.

What do you mean by who is triaging the results? Pre-submit failure will block your PR from landing, post-submit (e.g. integration test suite) failure will result in an incident and a likely deploy pause/rollback.

Do you call that "a true circular crypto economy"? Selling USDT to some shady changers on a grey market in Lebanon?

So are employees of color being fired disproportionately therefore reducing diversity? There is no data in the article to support that. Maybe far more men than women were let go? So diversity is only increasing.

You are listing two business cases for retention: do you think tech companies are not aware of the same data? If there was a strong case for keeping employees of a specific demographic, do you think companies would ignore that and prefer to lose more money?

Not sure how to interpret this conclusion:

"Despite loud commitments of solidarity and support for Black communities after the murder of George Floyd, the tech industry, by and large, seems content to quietly overlook the business case for retaining employees of color and prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging."

What is the business case for retaining employees of color other than having them as employees that benefit the company? This reads like companies should keep employees of color no matter what, essentially discriminating against everyone else and just virtue signalling.

I never said I did. Spotify doesn’t have some of my favorite music but I have it in either lossless format or on vinyl.