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jasmeson Do large language models understand us?

_We_ don’t understand us. That question is impossible.

jasmeson Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?

Yeah that isn’t a thing yet.

The math just gets too big.

jasmeson Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?

Yah, bang on correct.

this is why I usually suggest just doing it the old fashioned way. As you mentioned slides, hammer-ons/pull offs, picking, sliding… basically everything that makes a baseline unique and stylish will confuse software.

jasmeson Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?

It is 100% reasonably easy to transcribe the notes. Just give ppl who ask for tabs a stem and leave em to it. Maybe offer a beer to someone to transcribe one for ya.

Unless you wanna futz with tech for fun, a human with a good ear can transcribe bass a lil faster than real-time, can indicate accents and other techniques, and won’t make mistakes.

If you don’t do a lot of slapping, bending/sliding, Melodyne will be able to spit out a roughly accurate plot of your music but humans are still the golden standard for transferring recordings onto paper.

jasmeson You can't download this image

Looks at image.

Looks at prntscrn key.

This is basically a carefully targeted reverse slow lorris and involves right clicking an image why do I fear that use case and that level of madcap solution will all lead back to NFT bros...

jasmeson Help HN: Insane Google Cloud Issues

Make sure you don't just sell them on the negatives of staying with Google, also show off some of the cool stuff AWS can do beyond what their product currently requires. Maybe Show off how easy Alexa development is, some machine learning stuff, Elastic Transcode, make sure that they realize AWS is both a massive and powerful platform as well as an exciting cloud tech playground.

jasmeson Ask HN: How did you learn to mute your inner monologue and speed read?

Have you tried picking a page or two and reading them a few times a day every day? When learning to read sheet music you do this, and as your brain begins to remember and anticipate what comes next your eyes get used to moving quicker. Just a thought, as I don't have issues with reading text, but might be worth trying.

jasmeson Help HN: Insane Google Cloud Issues

You should make sure you're not about to start chasing sunk costs. If you're familiar with AWS already and GCP is unusable, do some napkin math on the cost of migrating to AWS.

Maybe more important: if this kind of scaling-up/quota issue occurs again on their GCN account further along in development, it could be a serious show-stopper. That would really concern me.

jasmeson Ask HN: How can I have a positive impact on the world?

You are trying to help people when you could just as easily be watching TV and drinking Coors. You're positively impacting society.

jasmeson Ask HN: Calling for help from Quora and Discord to shut down underage content

https://report.cybertip.org/

They work with the FBI.

If you see anything that makes you think a child is in imminent danger call 911. Immediately.

jasmeson What are the current “minimum system requirements” for a coding laptop?

I failed to mention that this would be a machine meant to be able to run coding tasks locally, rather than via ssh'ing or using cloud hosted solutions. I'm not sure how that slipped my mind.

jasmeson Ask HN: How can I have a positive impact on the world?

If you’re able to influence a DA, your impact is measurable dude. Don’t sell yourself short, it isn’t easy to stand against injustices.

jasmeson Ask HN: How can I have a positive impact on the world?

I know I impact society.

When I see someone on the side of the road I stop to ask if they’re okay. Usually folks are fine but sometimes they’re not. Once I wound up giving a guy a ride to a gas station at 3am mid winter.

I listen to anyone who has nobody to talk to, and never gossip about what I learn about people.

If someone doesn’t have something they need which I have and don’t need I give it to them.

I stopped smoking years ago but when I’m in the city I carry a pack just to be able to offer a few to homeless folks.

I send money to charities that I care about.

I pay my taxes.

I post in response to questions like this to try my best to remind folks that simply thinking about whether you’re helping society means you have the capacity to do so.

Yeah, we are all one variable out of the 8 billion that constitutes the algorithm of life, and granted no single person can stop a genocide or end poverty or cure Alzheimer’s. That shouldn’t be your benchmark for impacting society.

Do not try to measure yourself against Warren Buffet, Winston Churchill, or Pope Francis. Those aren’t normal people.

Judge yourself based upon what you have to give and whether you give what you have.

You matter.