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Indeed, entry level positions in Italy are much lower in general, but that's what Bending Spoons advertise on their website [1]. Milan is an expensive city, the average wage 2.5x the national average, and they're kind of a cool employer, so I suppose they can be more selective.

[1]: https://jobs.bendingspoons.com/positions/63eb93a4a9adba37238...

Bending Spoons is an Italian company. Most of their job postings are Milan, Italy, or fully remote, with the preference for those in between GMT-2 and GMT+3 time zones.

Assuming they want to continue Evernote as a product, I wonder if they laid off US and Chile stuff, because it was difficult to manage two teams in different time zones, or just it is cheaper to gather an equivalent EU-only team (Their entry-level positions are approx €50k/year, though the cost for the employer is higher).

It's very impressive.

I'd suggest to reset sliders on double click like most plugin instruments do.

I think it's important to understand what kind of AI systems this regulation is talking about (high-risk AI systems).

Title III Chapter 1 CLASSIFICATION OF AI SYSTEMS AS HIGH-RISK

[AI systems shall be considered high-risk if they pose]

- a significant risk of harm to the health, safety or fundamental rights of natural persons

- a significant risk of harm to the environment

Also Annex III page 122

[use cases considered to be high-risk]

1. Biometric and biometrics-based systems

2. Management and operation of critical infrastructure

3. Education and vocational training

4. Employment, workers management and access to self-employment

5. Access to and enjoyment of essential private services and public services and benefits

6. Law enforcement

7. Migration, asylum and border control management

8. Administration of justice and democratic processes

If an AI system affects people and their rights, or national security, or environment, it is subject to regulation. Fair enough.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM...

There is one killer application for voice assistants: answering phone calls. I wish Siri could respond to all unknown phone numbers, screen promotional and robocalls, take notes if necessary and report what's important to me (and I need to be able to tell her what's NOT important). This is what the assistants should do, not switching lights or trying to play a random song.

Neither Siri nor its competition can do this. Speech recognition accuracy is not really important, it can just take voice notes as a fallback, or ask to "press 1" to talk to me directly.

I was trying to find the full list of the languages where QuickPath (Swipe) is supported. Here it is:

https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke...

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.

So, researches paid by OpenAI are going to publish a paper to convince everyone else that an OpenAI product could have some economic impact.

Am I the only one who sees a conflict of interest here?

Is this preprint already submitted for peer review or published somewhere? Or is it just an advertisement formatted in LaTeX?

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hmm...

FUD about food. I'm not an expert in food safety, but this article is not trustworthy. It throws many scary words around, often implying that something is "bad", but never cares to explain or elaborate.

Also, the author is too eager to connect the dots, and is taking too many liberties.

Let's look at just few statements:

> "One of the worst types of “natural flavors” on the market are naturally-occurring glutamate by-products—which is just another way of saying MSG."

My understanding of English is that byproducts are the secondary products of the same process. So by definition, glutamate byproducts are NOT glutamate.

What's true though, that natural fermentation is the most common way to produce MSG. And glutamate, as a glutamic acid anion, is a naturally occurring chemical. And we consume it with meats, peas, and tomatoes, but no, it's not "another way of saying MSG" (which stays for _monosodium_ glutamate, a salt) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, "the worst type" is not exactly what would be "generally recognized as safe" [1]. The author's opinion goes against the evidence that billions of people consume MSG and glutamate-rich products daily. Without major issues.

Another statement:

> "These chemical by-products are excitotoxins, a type of harmful chemical which tricks our brain into overeating while creating addiction."

Causing disbalance to any metabolite in our body is never a good idea. Is salt safe? It depends. 1 g per kg of body weight is lethal. Is it safe to eat too much sugar? Not a good idea on so m any levels. And it also can be lethal. If something can be lethal in excessive quantities does not mean it should be avoided altogether.

As for excitotoxicity, this is the name of the effect caused by an abnormal, pathalogically high levels of neurotransmitters, which glutamate happens to be one of.

And no, natural and additive glutamate consumption is nowhere near the levels of the lethal dose. "An average adult consumes approximately 13 grams of glutamate each day from the protein in food, while intake of added MSG is estimates at around 0.55 grams per day. [1]". The LD is 15-18 g per kg of weight [2].

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/questions-... [2]: https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/130.4.1049S

P.S. There must be an empirical law that articles with "Truth About" in their title are not likely to be true.

You'll have to choose. Eventually. Allocate time and resources to learn what you want to learn, but set your objectives. And stick to what you have set to yourself. Any choice or lack of has opportunity cost. You can go wide, at the cost of not going deep. You cannot "balance" and "prioritize". At least not that much.

Initially most of the skills, sports and subjects have very fast learning curves. You learn a lot in a short amount of time, and every hour, every day brings you something new. Eventually, your "ROI" will decrease, and you'll have to dedicate more time to keep improving. At some point anything becomes a full time job.

So try what you want to try, set objectives, but consider how good you want to become. It's fine to remain an amateur, to stop and try something else. But if you ever decide to master anything, you'll want to invest weeks, months and years to do just one thing. Many other people did dedicate their entire lives to that subject/skill/sport. If you ever want to be as good as them, you'll have to match their effort.

Also remember that often it's not important how much you learn, but if you apply it in your life. You don't need to be a great athlete to enjoy biking. Sometimes all you need is get a bike and get outside.

> EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least

I disagree. iPhone remained a first world item. Smartphones are being adopted even in the poorest countries.

I'd argue that it's in the third world where the advantages of the EV are particularly important. Lower operating costs, simpler maintenance, local power sources.

Most of the developing world is where there is a lot of solar radiation. Solar PV has already the lowest generation costs. It's already the power source that requires the least capital investments, and works the best in the regions with underdeveloped infrastructure (see stories about Afghan farmers).

Yes, 50K vehicles are too expensive for countries with a GDP of < 10K per capita. They are even too expensive for most of the EU. But eventually the cost parity will be reached, and at some point it will be more economical to produce budget and low margin EVs than to support a legacy supply chain of ICE vehicles.

Even the bleakest estimates predict EV cost parity in 10 years. 20 years for nearly complete fleet replacement. So in 30 years or so an ICE vehicle will be like a steam engine. TCO parity will happen sooner, and most vehicles are replaced after 10 years, so the majority of the cars will be EVs in 15 years or so (in high GDP countries). And if the majority of the cars produced are EVs, and they are less expensive, the developing world will switch too.

There are many other respectful audio interface makers, not only Focusrite Scarlett line: MOTU, Arturia, SSL, M-Audio, Native Instruments, Behringer, Steinberg, Presonus…

I think in practice all of them are good enough but if you’re into numbers, dB, Hz, and measurements, check out Julian Krause audio interface reviews on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv875tu-z7M4EyBeuofJ1Tehq...

I believe the creativity is primarily the process, something we enjoy doing, not the method to _produce_ or _generate_ something. Sort of like dogs like playing fetch. Some creative processes do not create permanent artifacts at all, like all performing arts.

Images are different, but it appears that DALL-E is inspired by the aesthetics and the layout of the copyrighted material.

Another example, picking a random image from the Getty Images site. "A young parkour flips through the city,guangzhou,china, - stock photo":

https://imgur.com/a/pPruwzA

The images are obviously different, but it appears that DALL-E maps the getty images description to similar tone, similar perspective, similar background, and similar weather conditions. I'm sure there are thousands of possible backdrops in Guangzhou, and many ways to show a parkour flip. Even in the Google image search results there's more variance than in the output of DALL-E.

So you can't copyright an idea, but you can certainly scrape a copyrighted DB with image metadata, and use it to create your own product. My point is that DALL-E itself might be a derivative work of Getty Images and thousands of other online catalogs.

For me personally it would be useful to be able to lookup chords by their middle and upper notes. Let say I improvise a lick and want to find some harmonization. F# and A should evoke not only F#m but also Dmaj and Bm7, and maybe something more spicy like D#dim7.

Another useful feature I would appreciate is to see possible functions of chords. Dmaj can be a I of D major as well as a II of C lydian. So as I lock the key, let say C Lydian, the tool might highlight other notes which are in key. That’s helpful for improvising further or when looking for a chords progression.

I’m pretty sure there are DAW plugins doing that but a simple web tool can be used in so many situations when DAW is not there.

I’m using duck.com, Hide My Email and Firefox Relay. All work fine, but I think Firefox Relay has better UI to manage aliases: it has tags and can block promotional emails. And I like that it’s a paid service.

No, I didn't get the tag. But I suppose that Getty metadata as well as the images were used for training.

It seems it is possible to generate images which are very similar to the existing stock photos if you feed getty images' description into DALL-E.

I tried it with a distinctive banana image:

https://imgur.com/a/0OrIr6e

They may also find another loophole: like make iPhone thinner than USB C, or certify it as a health tracker, or increase charging rate to 101 W. That technically moves iPhone into the laptop territory, and different regulations apply.

"Included devices: a larger range of small and medium-sized devices with power delivery up to 100 watts would be included under the scope of the directive, including e-readers, low-powered laptops, keyboards, mice, earbuds, screens, printers, portable navigations, smart watches, personal care devices and electronic toys (annex Ia Part I RED). Some products, such as smart watches, health trackers and personal care devices, could be exempted if they are too small to have a USB Type-C receptacle. By the end of 2026, the Commission would be required to assess and include other devices that can be charged with the USB Type-C under the scope of the directive."

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/6988...

If you hit a pedestrian:

    at 40 mph there is a 90 percent chance they will be killed.
    at 35 mph there is a 50 percent chance they will be killed.
    at 30 mph there is a 20 percent chance they will be killed.
    at 20 mph there is a 2.5 percent chance they will be killed.

Source: https://www.roadwise.co.uk/using-the-road/speeding/the-chanc...

I can see Dall-E and co lowering the skill level required to accomplish some artistic tasks. Specialisation and delegation were part of the artistic creation for centuries. AI can do some mundane tasks reasonably well (e.g. shade a volume or draw a character in a specific pose). This should lower the barrier to entry and allow new artists with a different training and background to create in new ways. Sort of like some electronic musicians do not know to play an instrument, and rely solely on hardware or software to actually trigger sounds.

To be fair, Google Maps’ cycling and walking directions are also very sketchy.

I think driving directions are similar or slightly better in Apple Maps. But finding the place where you want to go is where Apple is behind. Misplaced, duplicate, missing POIs is what we learned to expect. Apple needs to find a way to motivate all kinds of businesses to put themselves and their opening hours on their map.

Unlike Beato, 8-Bit Music Theory is actually insightful. Every time I watch his analysis video I see something that I want to apply and use.

Personally I would support a uniform CO2 tax on everything, but I think it's more difficult to introduce and enforce. Energy tax + fuel duty can be a CO2 tax in disguise: there are already precise tools to measure and bill energy and fuel consumption, carbon intensity at any given time is known, and energy, heating and transportation are responsible for 73% of emissions.

What's left out is harder to monitor and regulate: agriculture (livestock, fertilizers, crop burning etc), construction and industrial processes, and waste. It may take a while before the society accepts that meat is never going to be that cheap again.

I don't see a problem replacing fuel duty with an energy tax. Make it progressive. Let say the first 3000 kWh per year are priced at residential rate, apply higher rate above that. Households without a car will pay the same price as before. EV owners will pay a tax proportional to car usage.

The principal incentive of science is publish or perish. Novelty trumps replication of the previous results (see replication crisis). Use of the citation metrics to evaluate performance in science is similar to relying on likes in the social media to measure importance. The number of citations matter more than the effort (cost) of producing the result. This environment favors those who can deliver something that's good enough, and then move on (and publish often).

Software engineering is a continuous effort. Maintenance often requires more time and resources than the original development. It's more like curating a library or a database. Their product is perceived to stay the same. Incremental improvements do not advance the career of the maintainer at all. Researchers who sink their time into software development mostly hurt their academic careers. Even if they publish a paper about ResearchTool 1.0.0, they won't be able to publish another one about ResearchTool 1.0.1 and another one about ResearchTool 1.0.2. Meanwhile, their peers will probably publish "A", "B", and "C".

Science needs a career path which does not depend on the number of publications.

Lookup the recent Hacker News history about Namecheap.

It turned out that they are mostly a Ukrainian company, and when the war started the CEO decided to terminate “services to users registered in Russia” with only four work days notice.

I don’t know if any customer account was actually suspended. I also don’t know what “registered in Russia” means, is it nationality, residency, billing address, customer’s IP address or the A record. Some EU clients also received this letter.

I can relate emotionally. But this way to address existing customers, which have paid for their services, is whimsy and unprofessional. I also think that discrimination based on region or nationality is unnecessary broad. It certainly didn’t stop Putin.

Just to be clear, I believe Ukraine needs and deserves all kind of support to win this war.

Given that DDG depends on Bing index, it seems reasonable to host it on Microsoft infrastructure. Would you also avoid DDG if it was hosted on public Azure? Is Google Cloud any better?

I still see a huge difference between the DDG web page and the Bing web page, different positioning, different defaults, different ads, different approach to engage with the user, different ranking (different search results), different search tools.

Even if at some point DuckDuckGo is acquired by Microsoft, I think the differentiation will be maintained.

> Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest.

Starting May 17, 2022, we [Flickr] will begin removing non-public content in violation of Flickr’s new free account limit policies. This applies to Free accounts with more than 50 non-public photos (private, friends, family, or friends and family).