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by v64 | 2025-05-02 16:23:07+00:00
Have been using Suno over the last few iterations and can vouch for this; steering the final product with style tags is a lot better now and I can use more natural language rather than trying to come up with what the genre specific "wordings" for certain styles of music would be. Good to know the tip about the brackets in lyrics too.

Some examples of style descriptions I've used that generated results close to what I had in mind are "romantic comedy intro music, fast and exciting, new york city" (aiming for something like the Sex and the City theme) and "mature adult romance reality tv show theme song, breakbeats, seductive, intimate, saxophones, lots of saxophones" which did indeed produce cheesy porn music.
by ducttapecrown | 2025-05-02 16:23:12+00:00
Geometry only benefits from visual reasoning in 3d and lower, and there are a lot of dimensions above that!

You can see visual reasoning as a little cheat computation, you can run math problems through your sense-determining brain, which is what brains are really good at (robots struggle with our levels of dexterity). But the fact remains that you can only visualize in low dimensions, and there are infinitely many dimensions.

Note: You can reduce many problems to 3d, but also many problems in 3d have configuration spaces with much higher dimension, so there's some nuance.
by dhosek | 2025-05-02 16:23:32+00:00
My Shakespeare class in college was based around performing a play at the end of the semester. We read about half a dozen plays, but the bulk of our work was based around preparing to perform Hamlet (each semester, a different play was performed, with fall being Comedies/Histories and Spring being Tragedies/Romances).

The big challenge is that a lot of plays are rarely performed. I had the good fortune of hearing an interview with Kenneth Brannagh where he talked about how Shakespeare is better experienced by watching a performance than reading a text and he made an aside about how it’s unlikely you’re going to get to see Henry IV part II performed and then spotting that there was a free performance of that exact play being given at the Chicago Cultural Center. This turned out to be part of a series of staged readings of all the plays. I missed the beginning of the sequence, but stuck around to the end. One of the coolest moments of this came when I was attending a play at the Goodman Theatre which had the actors interacting with audience members during intermission and one of the actors in the play recognized me from the audience of the staged readings.
by layer8 | 2025-05-02 16:23:50+00:00
Eh, I don’t think it works that way. Apple’s EU subsidiaries are separate legal entities, and everything that happens on the EU app store is not an activity that occurs within the US and would be subject to US federal law. Even Tim Sweeney implicitly acknowledged this: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/30/epic-games-apple-peace-...
by nyrikki | 2025-05-02 16:24:09+00:00
While there are real use cases for the above, if you are looking at bloom filters make sure you check the above works for your need.

First-order with least fixed point FO(LFP) == P As P=co-P but we think NP!=co-NP, bloom filters often have value for access to a small and fast path to co-NP

In that case the collisions don't matter because often excluding membership is more valuable than proving membership and you have to choose one.

That is why outlook used it to reduce address completion, even if a hit requires the expensive call to the server, the set of email addresses not in your address book is far larger.

But it is all horses for courses.

If your need does fit in P you have a lot of options, while the options for co-NP is far more rarified.
by crims0n | 2025-05-02 16:24:25+00:00
I agree, and in fact I did not start with Ulysses and do not recommend people do. I read 2-10 on the list, then Hamlet, then Ulysses - which I feel mostly prepared me for it. I did love it, but it is not an easy read, and took me the better part of a month to get through.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-02 16:24:38+00:00
In politics, conservative means keeping the status quo. This largely describes the current mainstream Democratic party. You're right, Republicans are not trying to keep the status quo. Going back to an older culture is "reactionary". Current mainstream Republicans can be described in this way.

Personal discipline, thoughtfulness, caution, integrity, wisdom, learning from the past, etc. are not necessarily features of one ideology or another.
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-02 16:24:56+00:00
>for me, the correct way forward isn’t external referrals. it’s allowing multiple app stores on devices. if you don't want the “untrusted” 3rd party store with more lax dev rules than Apple’s, just don’t use them.

Exactly. Or better yet just let me install whatever binaries I want. Make it clear I'm responsible for what I install though.

From the perspective of the average consumer, it's much easier for Apple to handle the whole flow. If I want to cancel my subscription via the app store it take 30 seconds, not a bunch of unanswered emails to customer support.
by lupusreal | 2025-05-02 16:25:03+00:00
Doing anything by fractions of profit is an invitation for Hollywood accounting. "Oops we have no profit because we have accountants who's job it is to shuffle money around in circles until everybody gets confused and gives up."

> simply bankrupt a corporation, which is not what you want if your goal is to change behavior.

Yes it is. Nuke the corporation and burn all the investors. This will teach a lesson.
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-02 16:25:09+00:00
And review bombing is alright. I have no idea why people get so obsessed over it. Which is why people should actually read the words of user reviews.

Are people that gave it a zero complaining only that the game is woke? If that does not matter to you, you may want to try it.

I enjoyed games that were review bombed before, as the reasons why people were review bombing it didn't matter to me.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-05-02 16:25:47+00:00
I've still yet to see any evidence that TikTok is anymore of a spying/espionage tool than your average app on any device. But I guess if people just keep repeating that It will make it true.

Never mind, I forgot, Western Intelligence orgs are trusted sources of truth and definitely wouldn't spy on me or lie to me. My Bad!
by imtringued | 2025-05-02 16:25:53+00:00
This won't be a thing and for very obvious reasons.

Programming languages solve the specification problem, (which happens to be equivalent to "The Control Problem"). If you want the computer to behave in a certain way, you will have to provide a complete specification of the behavior. The more loose and informal that specification is, the more blanks have to be filled in, the more you are letting the AI make decisions for you.

You tell your robotic chef to make a pizza, and he does, but it turns out it decided to make a vegan pizza. You yell at the robot for making a mistake and it sure gets that you don't want a vegan pizza, so it decides to add canned tuna. Except, turns out you don't like tuna either. You yell at the robot again and again until it gets it. Every single time you're telling the AI that it made a mistake, you're actually providing a negative specification of what not to do. In the extreme case you will have to give the AI an exhaustive list of your preferences and dislikes, in other words, a complete specification.

By directly producing executables, you have reduced the number of knobs and levers that can be used to steer the AI and made it that much harder to provide a specification of what the application is supposed to do. In other words, you're assuming that the model in itself is already a complete specification and your prompt is just retrieving the already existing specification.
Ask HN: Can't launch my Android app – Google couldn't verify your identity
by Naomarik | 2025-05-02 16:26:04+00:00
I have submitted extremely clear photos of my identification and my utility bill but have received no information what went wrong. There was an appeal option, I chose it and was denied again without any explanation.

Now the google play console has zero option to upload any other documents or do anything at all to fix this issue.

I'm extremely confused on how to proceed. I have already paid $25 to be able to submit my app that I've spent an enormous effort on and have a longstanding google business account tied to a a custom domain that I've been paying.

How am I supposed to proceed?
by feoren | 2025-05-02 16:26:05+00:00
We need a Donald Trump Apologist version of the Narcissist's Prayer.

He didn't say he was going to do the thing. It's liberal propaganda.

Okay, he did say he was going to do the thing, but he's not. It's just posturing.

Okay, he did the thing. But it's good! Everything will be better!

Okay, it's not making everything better. But it will soon! 5D chess!

Okay, everything is worse. But it's liberals' fault.

Okay, it's his fault. But we deserve it.
by canjobear | 2025-05-02 16:26:08+00:00
This makes sense for my path to math. In high school I was bad at math and good at learning languages. Then I started learning Python and realized that it was just like learning a language. Then at some point I realized math notation was just another language for expressing the kinds of things you could express in Python. Now I'm in a job where I do math every day and I read math textbooks for fun.

It helped that Python was meant to resemble natural language. I had learned C++ and Perl before but they never stuck, because I never made the connection to language. Ironically, since Perl was designed by a linguist!
by rupaliKaFan | 2025-05-02 16:26:27+00:00
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by palata | 2025-05-02 16:26:30+00:00
> I mean, to believe that you first need to believe that having access to the source code is somehow a problem.

How in the world did you get there from what I said? Open source code has a licence that says what the copyright owner allows or not. LLMs are laundering machine in the sense that they allow anybody to just ignore licences and copyright in all code (even proprietary code: if you manage to train on the code of Windows without getting caught, you're good).

> At most, the problem lies in people ignoring what rights a FLOSS license grants to end users

Once it's been used to train an LLM, there is no right anymore. The licence, copyright, all that is worthless.

> Also a telltale sign is the fact that these blind criticisms [...]

No clue what you are talking about here.
Show HN: Casual RTS demo ported to WebGPU
by astlouis44 | 2025-05-02 16:26:31+00:00
Desktop only, the progress bar may go to 98% and sit there for a while but it will eventually load in. For anyone curious, this is an Unreal Engine 5 sample that our team ported to WebAssembly using our custom web pipeline. Demo is not made by us, we just handled the port.
by jjulius | 2025-05-02 16:26:34+00:00
>... and also won the popular vote. Kind of hard to argue he wasn’t America’s choice.

I guess the smartass ("teeeeechnically") way to argue against that is that for the popular vote Harris/Walz won 48.34%, Trump/Vance won 48.81%, and "other" candidates got 1.85%, for a total of 50.19% to Trump/Vance's 48.81%.
by observationist | 2025-05-02 16:27:26+00:00
This is wrong, and even revenue isn't sufficient - you want to fine a sizeable fraction of the total value of all assets of the company based on the scope, duration, and severity of the violation.

Companies don't protect user data. They store, silo, and secure user data for as little cost as possible. No meaningful consequences means they will continue to harvest and disperse user data at an increasing rate until we get serious about requiring responsible practices and accountability.

The risk of being bankrupted is what will keep a corporation behaving well.

Penalties should be fatal to a corporation. If Microsoft or some random new startup had to follow the same regulations and protect user data to some bare minimum standard, and we apply the same degree of penalty, rather than some arbitrarily large fine which the mega corps are happy to pay, we can affect behavior.

The big companies have teams of lawyers who effectively (and sometimes explicitly) collude with the beancounters and MBAs to enshittify their products and services and milk every last drop of revenue, even exploiting the data of non-customers who just happened to encounter some peripheral surveillance apparatus.

We need to protect individual data privacy and restrict anything except informed consensual tracking. We need to mandate ephemerality and basic security standards. We need to make violations of these regulations lethal to a company, and impose mandatory minimum jail time for c-suite offenders.

Anything short of this results in overt, blatant, repeated violations of the laws by the big companies because they're happy to pay $5m or even $50m if it means they extract $500m more revenue and lock out any potential disruptive competition.

This would effectively mean that giant platforms which cannot responsibly store and manage user data would not be able to continue operation at the scale they're at. It would mean fragmentation and decentralization of various services, disincentivizing monopoly, improving market health, driving product and service progress.

Without harsh and extreme consequences that are as meaningfully painful to FAANG sized megacorps as they are to a one man startup, the problems won't ever be resolved. FAANG and tech outpaced regulation, resulting in effectively the total pwnage of data for more or less every living human on the planet. This is unacceptable, and the only way it changes is for the US to drop the hammer on the exploitive and irresponsible practices that led us here.

Let these asshats go bankrupt. We don't need Meta or Alphabet or Amazon. They're not entitled to screw the world for profit. If they can't operate ethically and responsibly, then they shouldn't be allowed to operate at all.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-02 16:27:30+00:00
Absolutely no one gave Apple a pass for the butterfly keyboard. You can look back at Jason Snell’s “Apple report card” where he sends surveys to 40+ people in the Apple punditry ecosystem during those years and Apple was derided by everyone.

No one gave Apple a pass for on device scanning or the piss poor Johnny Ive inspired thin laptops that removed ports and that over heated during the latter x86 days.

Everyone was glad to see Apple walk back some of his bad decisions during the last generation of x86 laptops. People were complaining in real time.

It’s not just shareholders. None of the 70% of iPhone users or 30% of Android users would be happy to see their phones go up in price by hundreds of dollars because of 145% tariffs (not exaggeration).

And it’s an appropriate “slippery slope” that Apple is going to go from kissing up to Trump to mass genocide?
by winrid | 2025-05-02 16:27:48+00:00
Yep! Unfortunately the lipo setup is useless, not only would I not trust the lipo in the heat it will be in, I need to drive some other stuff and it will have a much bigger battery pack anyway. Other than that the heltech boards look great, but I'm gonna try something 1/2 the cost and should work fine, and be smaller.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-05-02 16:28:14+00:00
The cameras are a regressive tax on poor people? That would be the tickets. You can correct this by having ticket penalties scale in proportion with wealth or income, which is something you probably want to do anyways so that they still act as a deterrent for people who are otherwise rich enough to flaunt traffic laws.

As for causing more accidents through slamming brakes on the yellow, I simply don't believe that. But if it helps you can extend the yellow duration by an extra half second.
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by ramesh31 | 2025-05-02 16:28:39+00:00
There's a long sordid history of white musicians aping on black authenticity for karma points, and this seems to fit right in. On moving to New York, I found it hilarious all the euphemisms people use to avoid the word "Harlem"; it's "uptown" or "upper manhattan" or "central park north". Anything but that dreaded word. No no, nothing good could ever come from there. But package it up with a nice clean smile and a heartfelt college essay anecdote, and you'll get your face on the cover of the Village Voice.
by calmbonsai | 2025-05-02 16:29:14+00:00
I concur. Aside from user hostility, these purely algorithmic feeds with no search, mid-video snap-cut ads, and blink-attention-span content is retarding reasoning skills and already having a negative gestalt effect on society.

For, perhaps only once in multiple generations, all the "old folks" raging against "the kids" with their new media are correct.

More and more, the movie "Idiocracy" is becoming a documentary.
by palata | 2025-05-02 16:29:15+00:00
I see that argument over and over, and I don't understand how people can consider it makes sense.

"My clipboard learned the code, just like a human would. So it should be fine to copy-paste anything and call it my own".

"How is killing a human any different to killing a computer?"

"If humans can vote, why couldn't computers vote as well?"

Can we start at "humans are not computers", maybe?
by edent | 2025-05-02 16:29:18+00:00
Taxes are very rarely hypothecated. In most countries, if you pay the "bear tax" it doesn't go into a big pot solely used for the eradication of bears.

So fines like this normally go into the general pot of government spending.

In the UK, data breach fines are spent on running the enforcement organisation - with the remainder going back to the state. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/who-we-are/how-we-are-funde...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-02 16:29:26+00:00
Carter is considered by many to be the greatest president ever. Besides the numerous accomplishments listed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/jimmy-... I give him credit for two of Reagan's greatest legacies -- deregulation and beating inflation.

Carter deregulated government far more than Reagan did, and he was the one that appointed Volcker and took the political hit for the pain Volcker caused in taming inflation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871492 (elaborates on my two points)
by jumploops | 2025-05-02 16:29:41+00:00
My layman’s view is that this issue was primarily due to the fact that 4o is no longer their flagship model.

Similar to the Ford Mustang, much of the performance efforts are on the higher trims, while the base trims just get larger and louder engines, because that’s what users want.

With presumably everyone at OpenAI primarily using the newest models (o3), the updates to the base user model have been further automated with thumbs up/thumbs down.

This creates a vicious feedback loop, where the loudest users want models that agree with them (bigger engines!) without the other improvements (tires, traction control, etc.) — leading to more crashes and a reputation for unsafe behavior.
by csomar | 2025-05-02 16:29:49+00:00
Plateauing overall but apparently you can gain in certain directions while you lose on some. I've written an article a while back that current models are not that far from GPT-3.5: https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now

3.7 is definitively better at coding but you feel it lost a bit of maneuverability at other domains. For someone who wants code generated, it doesn't matter but I've found myself using DeepSeek first and then getting code output by 3.7.
by kaishiro | 2025-05-02 16:31:05+00:00
Your assertion that I am "unable to name a similar example" is as baseless as it is puzzling, given that no such request was made. Regardless, it took me roughly eight seconds to find an interview with a Christian fundamentalist expressing an equally "extreme" viewpoint.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/31/nx-s1-5077780/extremely-ameri...
by dogleash | 2025-05-02 16:31:16+00:00
No, I think everyone always interprets composition. That's why directors labor over it in the first place. Regardless of how consciously tuned in or trained in the visual language any particular viewer is.

I just made that little j to point out the absurdity of picking apart progress pics like this. Of course every shot is deliberately planned. Perhaps progress pics doubly so. But that idea can be a tarpit. The thin edge of the wedge where we forget the intent of two progress pics taken at the gym is the same, the only deliberate difference is the physique, every other difference is incidental.
by munificent | 2025-05-02 16:31:45+00:00
Perhaps the fact that the US was founded on enslaved Black people is considered a "new idea" is why we have failed to address cultural roots of that systemic problem.

> The other Anglo colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand - never had slavery and ended up about as well off as the US.

How well off are First Nations people in Canada and Aboriginal people in Australia and New Zealand?
by pdimitar | 2025-05-02 16:31:52+00:00
RE: serverless, I think I understand the use-case and I get the homogeneity argument, it's just that to me SQLite mostly wins for being embedded; the rest of its traits are a nice bonus but using stuff e.g. Litestream I don't view as super important. And I would change a good amount of its internals if it were up to me. But! It helps you, you are using it, you are happy with it -- cool!

RE: stricter types, oh, I am adding a ton of code to verify types, absolutely. My upcoming FFI library (Elixir -> Rust -> SQLite) will have a lot of "raw" FFI bridges to SQLite with some good sensible default checks but ultimately I'd leave it to the users (programmers) of the library to f.ex. make sure that the field `price` in each result from the set is in fact a `REAL` (float / double) value. That's going to be the next game though, the "raw" FFI stuff will just make sure nothing ever crashes / panics (as much as I can guarantee; obviously I can't stop the OS killing the process or running out of disk or memory) and return errors as detailed and as machine-readable as they can be (major selling point, at least for me when I start dogfooding it). Just today I started working on using interruptible SQLite operations (via its progress handler mechanism) and it's almost done and I'll release it via a PR. Which will also make the library near-real-time friendly (I am aiming at 1-10 ms pauses between each check-in at most even if you are fetching a million records). Etc.

So yeah, no trust and a lot of verification indeed. But I would still like to have some more safety around executing raw SQL (not talking injection here) where e.g. you are never allowed to insert a string into an integer column.

It's hard to complain though. SQLite is one of the very very best softwares ever made. If the price for using it is to write some more conservative validation code at the edges then that's still a fantastic deal and I am happy to do it.