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Combined with bad taste, so they actually prefer shit to gold.

I heard similar about Croydon.

If the fee is covering all the investments required to make it convenient, we're socializing the risk taken by customers who buy from sketchy merchants or lose their card. That insurance system is a net positive for consumers, but they don't know they are paying for it.

What shall I make with all my tools? I shall make another tool!

Familiar impulse among software engineers.

Agree. Switching models with a keypress is for developer coding.

Jev and this decisions api are mostly useful for inference at scale in a workload where cost and latency matter… and that’s where evals become crucial. Could coding tools use it? Sure, but that’s probably a special case.

> First, just understanding music and even jazz as a prerequisite to being able to do this.

Do you have to understand music to train an ai to do this? You can be a fan without understanding music. You can be motivated and have an ear for what Cedar Walton sounds like without knowing anything about what harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary he had or didn’t have.

But my experience seems so much more important and real than everyone else’s!

It’s in the headline. This is a classic of the “trends” genre — author generalizing their own experience to make a pronouncement about a whole generation or all of society.

That’s not my model.

You said “I would expect…” and posited something that sounds reasonable but might not be true. Questioning a hunch seems like a good reason to look at data.

Does one paper ever resolve a question fully, beyond doubt? Rarely.

I guess that’s why they do studies.

Maybe the AI can help them not quit in their first two years, when they realize what the job really entails. It’s a profession powered by idealism but the long-timers often have the cynicism of former idealists. Not always! But it’s a tough gig that attracts dreamers.

Frequency x severity. Frequency is underestimated in the long term because human intuition is bad at estimating risk over large time scales.

My philosophy is based on anti-jinxing. If you say “I sure hope I don’t lose my phone,” you will surely lose your phone and soon. That’s how jinxing works.

But if you can say “I don’t care if I lose my phone,” you will not lose your phone. Because the anti-jinx knows you won’t be unduly annoyed and therefore prevents it from happening.

Reading about the book that inspired this, written by an artist who closely studied the styles of others— that’s impressive.

Reading an AI-generated site about some AI model that shits out some fake Bill Evans on command—that’s not. Any moron with enough tokens can do it. Congratulations.

All the same applies if your phone is stolen…or lost…or seized at the airport.

Devices need to be considered disposable. Expensive but disposable.

A lot of them have the majority of their collections offsite in warehouses. The "museum" is a sort of front office meant for visitors, but visitors only ever see a tiny fraction of the collection.

Some professions seem especially prone to this priesthood mindset. Inward-looking, amplified self-regard, and dedicated to a mission that nobody asked them to take on, because the new mission is more gratifying and ego-boosting.

Some software engineers do this — devoted to some abstract notion of code cleanliness or architectural purity that has no obvious relationship to delivering working software that is useful to others.

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Capital-intensive business + smart lawyers and accountants = exotic financing schemes. Not a new thing, is it?

The puppet on the left hand isn’t to blame, it’s the puppet on the right hand! No, it’s definitely the left. Let’s ask them…wait, they each blame each other.

We can always translate to baguettes, Fiat 500s, and Oktoberfest steins for our European friends.

Agree. There’s a Berklee player stereotype and later Coltrane is like that. It’s all about his drive to do his thing, in his own special way, nothing to do with his audience, and only a little about the other players.

It’s the same with profiling generally. You get pregain, post eq and maybe some simulated stuff inside the amp. I’ve never spent time with a Kemper but my understanding is that the base tone is what it is.

Not a bad thing in my book. It’s an antidote to endless knob tweaking. But I suspect it leads to endless profile library grooming.

There are so many of these, but none of them simulate the surprise-billing experience.

If only we truly knew how much divisive online content was generated from geopolitical adversaries…LLM or not.

And if we go bust, bad things will happen when someone else uses my box-gun technology in an unsafe manner. Remember, unlike those scary other people, I'm really into safety and alignment; you can tell, because I eventually admitted that some bullets escaped.

Sounds like it was considered useful, but in a way that inconveniently didn’t line up with the investor pitch.

You can see it jerk up and down when one of the legs takes the load.

When one leg is moving the load is held on the other three, and if you define a triangle by the foot contact points, one side will bisect the center of gravity. That’s not a recipe for stability, but it probably helps with agility. What these design benefit from is lateral movement of the legs, but this one seems pretty stiff.

HN has a bunch of men of a certain age, and at some point people contemplate their mortality.

There should be a name for this phenomenon: geeking out about an overly literal interpretation of how a technical topic is presented, made by an artist/creator a long time ago who likely didn't intend to satisfy such a literal understanding.

It's like retconning... retgeeking?

I remember a notable triangular sandwich packed in a cardboard box and sold on the motorway in France. I ate it while my jet lagged toddler cried and cried and we tried to get to Provence before nightfall.

There is such a thing as a bad sandwich.