Readit NewsIf you want to actually figure out how to scale FastAPI for a large-ish app, including auth, testing and all that stuff, all with modern practices, "how they do it in that repo" is probably a good way to start with.
This made it clear to me that something about the project is off.
For locals though? Speaking as one (who fled a year ago to nearby Landshut and still has to commute)... if you think about moving here, please don't:
- public transport is way too overcrowded, no matter what type of it, and forget about commute by car unless you are rich enough to pay someone to drive for you
- The rents are frankly insane, and fucking Bavarian wannabe-chieftain Söder keeps inviting one big company after another to Munich (instead of, say, Nuremberg for a change) while doing everything he can to avoid and hinder helping Munich alleviate the housing cost crisis.
- Munich's police are rabid if you're not white. Particularly the Central Station is not a good thing to "live while Black" (or dressed like a hippie or alternative), you'll get hounded by them because they can and will suspect you being a drug dealer, although the situation has relaxed a bit ever since cannabis got legalized federally a year ago.
- did I already mention the insane lack of housing? Seriously: prepare to either pay through your nose for short-term accomodation or couchsurfing, unless you are employed at one of the tech giants or rich enough to buy a place in cash you will likely spend a year or two until you have housing. If you are a student, that applies even more.
- a lot of Munich's infrastructure dates back to the money spigot times of the Olympic Games 1972 - and is subsequently shut down for repairs all the time because there hasn't been much invested in maintenance over the decades.
- Oktoberfest, Bauma (the construction trade fair) and the regular Champions League soccer games grind the entire city to a standstill. If you can help it, DO NOT move to any area close to the Theresienwiese (people WILL piss and even shit on your porch, I speak from personal experience) and to the Sechzger-Stadion in Giesing (in addition to the noise, 1860 fans are violent hothead hools that lead to massive disruptions for traffic every time that sorry excuse for a football club has a game).
I’d add that riding a bike is also quite stressful at times.
This is nihilistic BS and false equivalence.
EU commission's retraction can be challenged in the courts if it's not allowed.
The problem is not that the EU doesn't have checks and balances, the problem is that politicians are willing to offend common decency in the first place and drive the erosion of civil rights.
I've been trying to write a body of audio code that sounds better than the stuff we got used to in the DAW era, doing things like dithering the mantissa of floating-point words, just experimental stuff ignoring the rules. Never mind if it works: I can think it does, but my objection holds whether it does or not.
Firstly, if you rip my stuff halfway it's pointless: without the coordinated intention towards specific goals not corresponding with normally practiced DSP, it's useless. LLMs are not going to 'get' the intention behind what I'm doing while also blending it with the very same code I'm a reaction against, the code that greatly outnumbers my own contributions. So even if you ask it to rip me off it tries to produce a synthesis with what I'm actively avoiding, resulting in a fantasy or parody of what I'm trying to make.
Secondly, suppose it became possible to make it hallucinate IN the relevant style, perhaps by training exclusively on my output, so it can spin off variations. That's not so far-fetched: _I_ do that. But where'd the style come from, that you'd spend effort tuning the LLM to? Does it initiate this on its own? Would you let it 'hallucinate' in that direction in the belief that maybe it was on to something? No, it doesn't look like that's a thing. When I've played with LLMs (I have a Mac Studio set up with enough RAM to do that) it's been trying to explore what the thing might do outside of expectation, and it's hard to get anything interesting that doesn't turn out to be a rip from something I didn't know about, but it was familiar with. Not great to go 'oh hey I made it innovate!' when you're mistakenly ripping off an unknown human's efforts. I've tried to explore what you might call 'native hallucination', stuff more inherent to collective humanity than to an individual, and I'm not seeing much facility with that.
Not that people are even looking for that!
And lastly, as a human trying to explore an unusual position in audio DSP code with many years of practice attempting these things and sharing them with the world around me only to have Microsoft try to reduce me to a nutrient slurry that would add a piquant flavor to 'writing code for people', I turn around and find Google, through YouTube, repeatedly offering to speak FOR me in response to my youtube commenters. I'm sure other people have seen this: probably depends on how interactive you are with your community. YouTube clearly trains a custom LLM on my comment responses to my viewers, that being text they have access to (doubtless adding my very verbose video footnotes) to the point that they're regularly offering to BE ME and save me the trouble.
Including technical explanations and helpful suggestions of how to use my stuff, that's not infrequently lies and bizarro world interpretations of what's going on, plus encouraging or self-congratulatory remarks that seem partly drawn from known best practices for being an empty hype beast competing to win the algorithm.
I'm not sure whether I prefer this, or the supposed promise of the machines.
If it can't be any better than this, I can keep working as I am, have my intentionality and a recognizable consistent sound and style, and be full of sass and contempt for the machines, and that'll remain impossible for that world to match (whether they want to is another question… but purely in marketing terms, yes they'll want to because it'll be a distinct area to conquer once the normal stuff is all a gray paste)
If it follows the path of the YouTube suggestions, there will simply be more noise out there, driven by people trying to piggyback off the mindshare of an isolated human doing a recognizable and distinct thing for most of his finite lifetime, with greater and greater volume of hollow mimicry of that person INCLUDING mimicry of his communications and interpersonal tone, the better to shunt attention and literal money to, not the LLMs doing the mimicking, but a third party working essentially in marketing, trying to split off a market segment they've identified as not only relevant, but ripe for plucking because the audience self-identifies as eager to consume the output of something that's not usual and normal.
(I should learn French: that rant is structurally identical to an endlessly digressive French expostulation)
Today I'm doing a livestream, coding with a small audience as I try for the fourth straight day to do a particular sort of DSP (decrackling) that's previously best served by some very expensive proprietary software costing over two thousand dollars for a license. Ideally I can get some of the results while also being able to honor my intentions for preserving the aspects of the audio I value (which I think can be compromised by such invasive DSP). That's because my intention will include this preservation, these iconoclastic details I think important, the trade-offs I think are right.
Meanwhile crap is trained on my work so that a guy who wants money can harness rainforests worth of wasted electrical energy to make programs that don't even work, and a pretend scientist guru persona who can't talk coherently but can and will tell you that he is "a real audio hero who's worked for many years to give you amazing free plugins that really defy all the horrible rules that are ruining music"!
Because this stuff can't pay attention, but it can draw all the wrong conclusions from your tone.
And if you question your own work and learn and grow from your missteps to have greater confidence in your learned synthesis of knowledge, it can't do that either but it can simultaneously bluster with your confidence and also add 'but who knows maybe I'm totally wrong lol!'
And both are forms of lies, as it has neither confidence nor self-doubt.
I'm going on for longer than the original article. Sorry.
It is really unfair to call it "software" it is more like "glued to recent version of OS ware", meanwhile I can still run .exe compiled in 2006, and with wine even on mac or linux.
Then again, this app was written with SwiftUI, which hasn't received some handy features before macOS 12 and is still way behind AppKit.
When I see an app that's not compatible with the second most recent macOS, I assume the dev either didn't know better or they were too lazy to write workarounds / shims for the latest-and-greatest shiny stuff.
Think it as a bit like GDPR but 1) much more expensive 2) with criminal liability 3) Makes even less sense than GDPR as it does nothing to prevent harm for minors 4) derimental for user experience and users.
"Funnily enough" the companies who lobbied for Online Safety Act, and former Ofcom employees, are now selling age verification check services and compliance services related to Online Safety Act. They have pretty good profit margins there, making even Google and Facebook look poor.
More here:
https://x.com/moo9000/status/1950866445186818209
> And for everybody out there who's thinking about using VPNs, let me just say to you directly, verifying your age keeps a child safe. Keeps children safe in our country. So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age. Make the internet safer for children. Make it a better experience for everyone. That's surely what we should aspire to in this country.
It's a grave insult to think someone would even believe this.
EDIT: Pictured in the video is Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kyle