Hacker News: nr2x

New comment by nr2x in "Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems"

nr2x — Sat, 27 May 2023 00:19:11 +0000

Wired.com ran the first ever banner ad. True fact.

New comment by nr2x in "What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?"

nr2x — Sat, 27 May 2023 00:16:17 +0000

Probably the best programming advice any anyone could get.

New comment by nr2x in "Not Even a Recession: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect [pdf]"

nr2x — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:48:42 +0000

No, no, no - that would mean there wasn’t a deep strand of sympathy for Russian ethnic-totalitarianism at play at the highest levels of the German establishment.

And of course it’s not like AfD actually, exists, or that the German security apparatus is riddled with Russian spies and Nazis.

New comment by nr2x in "Not Even a Recession: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect [pdf]"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:21:09 +0000

And yet the USA and Poland were screaming at the top of their lungs to not do nord stream and the German public didn’t care. At all.

New comment by nr2x in "Not Even a Recession: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect [pdf]"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:19:49 +0000

I literally cannot fathom how Germans still don’t see this. It’s a certain flavor of arrogance and greed to watch your neighbors be slaughtered and think “hey, we are getting cheap gas - surely this isn’t a problem”.

Germans like to say how much they learned from their history, but when shit got real they funded the aggressor and benefited from Putins corruption.

New comment by nr2x in "Not Even a Recession: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect [pdf]"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:16:14 +0000

Are you kidding??? The USA and Britain convinced Ukraine to give up its nukes!!! All this is rooted in trying to appease Russia in the first place.

If Ukraine had kept nukes they’d be at peace right now.

New comment by nr2x in "Not Even a Recession: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect [pdf]"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:13:59 +0000

Eh, Germans and points west are delusional, Hungary is corrupt, but Poland and the Baltics know the score.

The fact that Poland had to shame Germany into defending their *own interests* should be a national embarrassment.

New comment by nr2x in "Ableton Push 3"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:02:07 +0000

Logic definitely has more plugins for way less money though.

New comment by nr2x in "Ableton Push 3"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:01:19 +0000

Agree, I think it will be limited. However, I could see a niche where it’s a good way to play your tracks live. Maybe you’d have to bounce some tracks in advance if they aren’t iOS compatible for whatever reason.

New comment by nr2x in "Ableton Push 3"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:56:22 +0000

I haven’t used it on iPad yet, I meant in regards to desktop.

Biggest issue on iPad is lack of device drivers. Class Compliant audio only gets you so far.

New comment by nr2x in "A mental health crisis in science"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:37:29 +0000

It won’t change until people quit. I did, I’m making way more money, way less stress, and I have no regrets.

New comment by nr2x in "Ableton Push 3"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:35:48 +0000

As of today it can run Logic Pro. The feature parity is there, most people consider using one or the other a matter of personal preference.

New comment by nr2x in "Ableton Push 3"

nr2x — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:34:38 +0000

The biggest issue with Mac is they manage to break device drivers every 12 months like clockwork. On the other hand, Logic Pro is an absolute steal at the price they charge, and it’s gotten some huge (and free) updates.

New comment by nr2x in "Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT"

nr2x — Sun, 21 May 2023 00:13:27 +0000

I also got sick of the constant apologies and you cannot disable it!

New comment by nr2x in "Apple’s new headset meets reality"

nr2x — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:23:20 +0000

I bought a quest, it made nauseous, it wouldn’t stay on my kids head, and ended up gathering dust until I returned it the last day possible.

New comment by nr2x in "Apple’s new headset meets reality"

nr2x — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:20:50 +0000

More traffic congestion right by there tho.

New comment by nr2x in "Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate"

nr2x — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:16:43 +0000

I mean that’s the humane approach, but what’s the fun without killing off a few grad students?

New comment by nr2x in "Tracking Blocked Scripts"

nr2x — Wed, 17 May 2023 22:51:20 +0000

“Hey the user clearly doesn’t want this. But I’m a web developer in 2023 and the user is my enemy! How can we do something the user explicitly does not want us to do?”

New comment by nr2x in "Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate"

nr2x — Wed, 17 May 2023 03:09:08 +0000

We already have the NSF and DARPA. They should just back up a truck or money at CMU, give the professors immunity for working the students to death, and you’d have an equal system in a week.

A lot of dead CMU students, but you have to be willing to sacrifice.

New comment by nr2x in "StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length"

nr2x — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:05:39 +0000

I asked it to write a function with a given name and it came up with stuff that was in the general ballpark of the software. So yeah, it’s in there.