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The coolest thing about this to me is that he managed to plug a trumpet into the same engine and it sort of... Just worked

I think the "successful arrival" framing isn't accurate. Or at least not comprehensive. Granted, "Commuter travel" vs "Leisure travel" are probably two quite different products.

Marketing guy Rory Sutherland talks about the product of the train journey a lot. I think there's a lot of wisdom in the idea of spending finite budget trying to make the travel experience more enjoyable rather than trying to make the journey quicker. (excuse the shortform slop) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bywe3NUOB1I

huh I find this totally incomprehensible. Is this easier to read if you spend a lot of time looking at wiring diagrams?

have you ever googled a simple maths question? I often come back to that and realise we've been in this era for quite a while. Calculator would probably be 1000x more efficient!

why does it need access to my private repositories?

counterpoint - Sometimes I do this for myself to prompt myself into a reply when I'm finding it hard to compose the message. Once I've said something, no matter how small, I know I have to follow up within in a couple of minutes. It's like a kind of short-term Ulysses pact.

Also I'd say this depends on your existing work culture - I've been in places where the expectation is that everyone has Slack messages muted. If anything was really that time sensitive it's still possible to pick up the phone.

what is a .less Docker Container

this is incredible - my mind is completely blown at the idea of synthesising audio using full blown fluid mechanics.

indeed - and because it's a special character you need to do something like this to replicate the ?? shortcut.

  alias \?\?="gh copilot suggest"

Nice! I prototyped a manual version of this a while ago. https://twitter.com/conradgodfrey/status/1712564282167300226

I think the thing that strikes me is that the default for chatGPT and the API is to create images in "vivid" mode. There's some interesting discussion on the differences between the "vivid" and "natural" here https://cookbook.openai.com/articles/what_is_new_with_dalle_...

I think these contribute to the images becoming more surreal - would be interested to compare to natural mode - it looks like you're using vivid mode based on the examples?

what if your great grandmother had Alzheimer's

If you try this on Bluetooth headphones the latency will kill any rubato you're trying to inject into this

I believe what he is referring to is the idea that you can't tell the difference between eg. an "augmented second" and a "minor third". One is written e.g. C-D#, one C-Eb. I've always found the distinction between these two types of interval largely pointless - for exactly his reasoning. They sound the same.

Potentially they are useful in discussing theory in writing, potentially they are relevant when tuning using non-equal temperament. But knowing this distinction doesn't help you make music that sounds good. An ear trained pianist, for example, would not distinguish these two intervals, and I would argue that would not be a limiting factor to the quality of music they could produce.

Aren't they explicitly using TPUs in their training? Vast AI are only offering GPUs.

I'm always curious about the cost of these training runs. Some back of the envelope calculations:

> Overall we reach a throughput of over 1900 tokens / second / TPU-v4 chip in our training run

1 trillion / 1900 = 526315789 chip seconds ~= 150000 chip hours.

Assuming "on-demand" pricing [1] that's about $500,000 training cost.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing

Do you have have any good examples of useful and visually interesting websites?

There are companies who will sequence your gut microbiome and give you actionable insights - full disclosure I work for one https://joinzoe.com/

It's all a matter of degree - of course complete chaos is antithetical to progress.

I think this is just the flipside of Moore's law and the exponential progress of computing across the last 70 years.

I don't think you can realistically expect the benefits of rapid progress without the downsides of chaos and instability.

A world where all programs worked correctly for ever would probably be... a very stagnant world. Maybe we shouldn't wish for it

Has Dan Luu ever explained why he doesn't put dates in his blog posts?

Hehe - this website https://conradg.github.io/prompthack/index.txt

gives the following:

"This website doesn't seem to have any content. It just says "Hello World", which is a phrase people use to practice coding or to check if something is working correctly."

And this one:

https://conradg.github.io/prompthack/test_translate.txt

"The phrase "cheese omelette" in French is "omelette au fromage". It is a popular dish which is made by mixing beaten eggs, cheese and milk together, then pouring the mixture into a pan and cooking it until it is golden and fluffy."

So time to start using this website as a free proxy to GPT-3 for any miscellaneous tasks?

seems like they have about 80,000 employees at the moment https://www.philips.co.uk/a-w/about.html

Love this.

Reminds me of "Short Trip" https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

HN Discussion from 2017 - posted as "Scenic Tram Ride" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324954

So here's the counterfactual - If there's no conversation about it, what happens? If that is the reality of that person's situation what are the outcomes if it goes unaddressed? I guess either it blows over and the person happens to pull through, or it builds up to an intolerable point and then suddenly without explanation there are 2 weeks of sick leave while the person has a breakdown?

I've had periods of my own life where I've been through tough stuff that has affected my ability to do my job - I guess I feel lucky to have had managers and colleagues who I've been able to talk to fairly candidly in these situations. In all cases I've had signal that they were grateful I shared.

In answer to your question - I would imagine a more realistic conversation might go:

"Hey I noticed X thing, what's up?" "Yeah, I'm having some trouble in my personal life I haven't been myself" "Anything you want to talk about?" "It's complicated to be honest" "Ok well take the time you need and let me know if you need anything".

That's from manager->report. Between colleagues at the same level I guess this scenario could be a bit more complex to navigate. One trivial example I can think of though is in the company I worked at during the pandemic - many moments on team meetings or 1:1 calls where people opened up about their experience of lockdown and how painful it was to be stuck inside in a shoebox of a flat in London. These moments bring people together

I also recognise that peoples' feelings on these matters are hugely cultural - I think huge chunks of the dialogue that happens in the HN comments is just people with different cultural frames of reference talking at cross purposes, but the anonymous feel of the comments section blurs this and makes it feel like everyone works at a FAANG in silicon valley.

Fair point. I have found building deep trust a lot harder remotely. Thinking it through, perhaps its easier to do this 1:1 with everyone in your team, even though it's o(n^2)

My surgeon is not on my team. To take your analogy further - perhaps I would go out for drinks with my family/friends afterwards.

Intra-team relationships are different to inter-team relationships.