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Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes
Hey HN!

I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: https://maroofy.com

You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music.

Demo: https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554

How does it work?

I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music.

My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output.

I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic search to find similar music!

Here are some examples you can try:

Fetish (Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane) — https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943
The Medallion Calls (Pirates of the Caribbean) — https://maroofy.com/songs/1440649752

Hope you like it, and would love to hear any questions/feedback/comments! :D
Of course, I wasn't claiming Tether works the same way. I was merely responding to the idea that bitcoin "gains" aren't real because people haven't "withdrawn"
Find a good server or set of servers and it's still perfect. I'll link a couple options below, there are many many more:

https://uncletopia.com/servers

https://teamwork.tf/community/quickplay
Maybe it has a big China flag on it?
Wyze refused to reconnect to my new WiFi access points with the same SSID but a different password. All kinds of resets did nothing and I ate the costs and switched my smart plugs to Kasa from TP Link. It’s been better but not without faults.

Philips hue has very rarely caused me troubles except the adhesive on their cabinet lights was garbage.
All thermostatic valves have cartridges that eventually wear off and need to be replaced. Cartridge is accessible from outside by removing the handle held by the side screw (handle can be stuck and hard to remove) and then unscrewing the cap. Remove the cartridge, look at the part number and buy the replacements at Amazon. Obviously cut off water to the shower first.

Also handle has a small button on the bottom which blocks it from going into super-hot range. If you need hotter than normal water, press and hold this button while rotating the handle. (Handle is supposed to be calibrated when installed so digits on the dial match water temperature, but nobody does that)
GDPR actually specifically regulates citizen-government interactions as well (article 2), with special exceptions for law enforcement (article 2.2.d).

You could of course argue that authorities can still make up any kind of law enforcement related reason to exclude you anyways :)

Edit: My point is sorta that the exceptions are a whitelist not a blacklist.
I am no expert on the upper atmosphere but I think the wind speeds at those altitudes vastly outstrip the ability of anything with batteries and electric motors to adjust its course. The only way to change directions is to rise or fall into a differently moving stream of air current. This is how the Google project loon things were supposed to navigate?
Ah yeah right of course, it's something like Na+ Cl- H2O --> O2 NaOH Cl2 (sorry chemists, I know your eyes are probably bleeding)

But if they manage to get H2 from it then the sodium, oxygen, and chlorine have to bind into something else than usual I guess.
The byline cites the author as "the Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization..." and I will note that Scrooge does not apologize to Cratchet, he shows up with a tangible act of contrition. Rabbi Ruttenburg just published recently https://danyaruttenberg.net/books/on-repentance-and-repair on Judaism not really giving a shit about "I'm sorry" but about... repentance and repair: action of amendment by the transgressor rather than grace from the transgressed.
This says the Great Resignation is due to lower participation by older men, but https://www.nber.org/digest/20232/tight-us-labor-market-miss... says it is concentrated among younger-to-prime-age men. Odd?
It has some history, definition of terms, connections to other tech, opinion / advocacy, all wrapped up into one "something."

Seems more than a documentary. Can totally be a video essay.
Sorry for getting downvoted for using native and probably opensource software, welcome to HN.
Right, though I vaguely remember that I had tried the pressure-vessel-based sandboxing a long time ago and it didn't work if Steam itself was inside a container. https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/i... seems familiar.

(Why do I insist on running Steam inside a container? Because there's no way I'll trust it on my actual filesystem after https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 )
The shower doesn't need an internal heating element. All you need is an electric control system, which dynamically monitors the temperature coming out of the shower head and constantly adjusts the mix toward a set temperature.

I have a feeling these have existed for a long time in Japan.
Sometimes building something new is easier than beating a recalcitrant tool into submission.
Okay but they’ll never beat Navy at ultimate frisbee.
> Its honestly very difficult to play, its really not suited for Casual players(playing on speakers with mediocre mice and so on) especially with the very difficult aiming system.

Mediocre mouse or whatever keyboard aren't the only issues I guess. You have to analyze everything about yourself properly to determine when you need a better mouse or not.
From the link you posted:

"California employment law forbids political retaliation in the workplace. This includes terminating or retaliating against workers for their political beliefs or activity."

So yes, political affiliation absolutely has strong protections in CA, even if it does not fit a highly technical, but irrelevant, definition which is "protected class".

And the central point is that yes political affiliation has strong protections in CA.

The OP is arguably correct in that they used the words "protected status" which is not a technical term anyway.
You mean "correctly" identifying men as more violent than those with less testosterone?
Sometimes you can be an excellent communicator and you're still just working with morons.
>> The worse parts are that they were once fined. But it's a tiny amount and most banks get fined regularly by all sorts of regulators.

They were forbidden from doing business in New York. That doesn't happen to most banks.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...
Well, you can get Chinese thermostatic valve for few times cheaper.
That's a bit too conspiratorial. The much more mundane reality is that they are defining hateful content based on what is most likely to get breathless, angry, censorious screeds in the media written about how their company is perpetuating (some injustice) if not literally killing people by way of putting the wrong words on the screen.

Culture war outrage drives clicks, it's that simple.
“Talking about themselves as anti fascist is a far-left thing”. Where are you getting that from? It’s ridiculous
Seems this leaked ChatGPT API model got taken down already..

https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523

https://github.com/acheong08/ChatGPT/issues/523#issuecomment...
The U2 is an amazing piece of technology. The amount of times it's been gutted and retrofitted is crazy. 67 years and counting; sure don't make them like they use to. Even the global hawk can't match its capability 1:1.
Associated with cognitive decline could just indicate that the people using it are more sickly or have more trouble sleeping, both of which are more strongly correlated with cognitive decline.
My experience is similar to yours, except that some of the Proton games have bugs, but still run quite excellently regardless, and most all of my Linux-native games run perfectly, but the few that don't do once Valve's "Steam Runtime for Linux" containerized thing is selected as a compatibility layer. Most games I play on Steam though just run when one clicks "Play", regardless of whether they're Linux-native or running via Proton (with the exception of those few that are still choosing to be actively Linux-hostile by purposely refusing to enable BattlEye or EAC despite Valve's efforts to make it increasingly simple for devs / publishers to do so).
Not much there to comment on.

The actual paper is at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01195-x

DOI for those who want to search other databases:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01195-x
I think Toyota is working on a hydrogen combustion engine. Maybe this plus that could be interesting
Presumably both balloons are affected by the same air currents, right? So as long as you lift it up from the right spot it should be able to get within a few kilometers of the target, no?
Fair warning to readers: going above 10k a day without cycling it will likely lead to too much Vitamin D within 6-12 months. Consider a max of 5k UI/day.
Yeah but you only make 1 cent. If you just create 1 tether from thin air and then sell it for $1, you just made $1.
Sure, providing universal basic services is a good start. However, the bigger question is what basis is there for private ownership of the means of production.

Seems to me that a much fairer system would be to have a mix of cooperative and state ownership. The state could own all the essential industry that's required to provide the basic services such as food, healthcare, education, housing, and so on.

Meanwhile, any nice to have things could be produced by cooperatively owned companies that compete on the market. Cooperative ownership would ensure that the profits are fairly distributed amongst the workers avoiding the problem with wealth accumulation.

This model has been shown to work very successfully at scale already. A couple of great examples to look at are Mondragon and Huwawei. These are huge companies that employ thousands of people and have excellent track record of profitability and resilience.

https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/

https://www.huawei.com/en/facts/question-answer/who-owns-hua...
I always assumed having missiles behave like this would have some neat advantages (harder to shoot down, harder to predict the intended target, harder to automatically trace back to the launcher, etc.) and that the only reason real missiles didn't typically do it was the complexity of making sure they didn't hit each other or something else sitting outside of the shortest path.

It seems like it could be done, e.g. pre-program all of the missiles with randomized paths that didn't intersect, and sweep the entire potential flight path area with radar or similar and exclude volumes with obstructions. That really is an awful lot of complexity that could make things go wrong, though.
Further HN reading on this fascinatingly scary event:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6419056

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25906339

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103831

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927910

''I remember a talk about North
Carolina and a strange, strange pond'' -- ''Hypnotized'', Fleetwood Mac, 1973
If Windows, MacOS, or even Android did the same thing, I don't think the Department of Commerce would be very happy. In fact, I think they're starting to recognize that all platforms should be treated equally, or at least that's what the official US inquiry reports:

> NTIA’s “Competition in the Mobile Application Ecosystem” report found the current ecosystem is not a level playing field, which is harmful to developers and consumers. The report recommends policy changes to improve the ecosystem.

Apple continuing to charge an arbitrary fee probably doesn't "level the playing field" they're talking about. But we can agree to disagree for now, I'm perfectly contented waiting for Apple's response in Europe first.
Tbf, Paul Williams was coked out of his mind when he wrote the music for that, to the point that he later introduced himself to Caine as though they hadn’t done the movie already. So hard to recreate the conditions of creation.
Other news sources have a lot more detail about this.

1. There's a high risk of debris falling on people on the ground.

2. Any sensitive information collected would have been sent home already, so shooting it now isn't going to do much good.

So Pentagon leadership recommended not taking "kinetic action". What's interesting is that they have been tracking it for several days over the US mainland. You'd think the strongest military in the world could do something other than...just watch.
How the tiny missing radioactive capsule was found
yes but it is not and has never been an "EITHER / OR" scenario.

be wary of others that claim it is.
>"US gov shoots down Chinese little girl science project"

"Cool balloon Mei, want to bring it to the White House?"
Inverted Indices in ClickHouse
I wasn't able to find an explanation for the conclusion.

So older home owners didnt return to the workforce because their home increased in value and they could retire early.

How? Did they sell their home? If so where did they move to?
Did they refinance their home and take out a chunk of equity?

In either case, it seems to me like they still need to work.
Re "Everyone is against illegal immigration", I don't think that that is close to true at present. You will search in vain to find a left-leaning Congressional Representative that will pronounce that they are against illegal immigration.

A dirty secret of many Republicans is that they're pretty okay with illegal immigration as it's been in the 80s and 90s. Pseudo slave labor, deport as needed, etc. Needless to say, this seems unethical (even if the immigrants in question might be okay with it).

We have no better solution than to let our legislature fight this out. But, whatever laws they come up with need to be followed and strictly enforced. Failure to do so has led to abject misery, and it will only get worse.

You might not agree with the law, but the alternative is leading to far worse suffering. Ironically, the fentanyl crisis will probably turn the tide, rather than pedestrian ethical concerns.

(I'm quite old, so don't really have a dog in this fight, aside from a general well wish for the young.
Beyond that, I was a "far-left" Green for most of my years.
I've not changed much, but the world sure has.)
> Oddly enough, Stradivarius could not have known how his fiddles would sound today, because most of them have been modernized.

If they weren't, would the tone change as the materials aged?
Isn't ChatGPT American? Weren't black people deemed inferior by law such as slavery and civil rights? Aren't the stereotypes about Scandinavians meant to be positive as opposed to hateful stereotypes?

It seems that is the key different the creators of the tool are taking into account.
I mean, I can respect an experimentalist approach. It certainly seems foolish when considered on the assumption that everyone in the world knew as much about radiation forty years ago as you and I know today, but so to assume would constitute flagrant historiographical presentism.
Not at all, you just have to think they are disadvantaged in society, as the article says: "is more likely to classify as hateful negative comments about demographic groups that have been deemed as disadvantaged."
are you saying that the thousands of square miles of ocean from the platforms like Deep Horizon are not suffering massive externalizations?

the chernobyl exclusion zone is not a barren wasteland full of dead. the flora and fauna are living. while i wouldn't move there myself or eat any thing from there, life is not dead there. life, uh, finds a way, as it has been said.
but isnt that the exact point.

you might expect poverty to go up by a factor of 50x when the population goes up by 10x, but what we see is the opposite, poverty has grown more slowly than the overall population.
Yes, but none of that has anything to do with why RSS+mp3 won. If somebody invented podcasts today it would be a walled garden, not an open format where I can point any podcatcher at any host and get the feed.
> The lost source was still easily lethal.

From https://www.aap.com.au/news/search-for-radioactive-capsule-i...

> Dr Robertson said the unit emits about two millisieverts of radiation per hour, which is the equivalent of having 10 x-rays in an hour.

Form https://xkcd.com/radiation/

> 2 millisieverts: Head CT scan

> 50 millisieverts: Maximum yearly dose permitted for US radiation workers

> 100 millisieverts: Lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increase of cancer risk.

> 400 millisieverts: Dose causing symptoms of radiation poisoning if received in a short time.

So if you keep the source for a day in your pocket, you reach the limit of radiation of a radiation worker. It's not wise, but that number is still quite conservative. I guess it's not lethal, but I definitively would not try to do that.

A few days or a week? It looks like a very very very bad idea.

If I were in charge, I'd also try to recover it as soon as possible. The idea is to minimize the health risk and the radiation received by people. And if some moron decides to open it, the health risk and cleanup would be much worse.

From the same article:

> “It emits both beta and gamma rays, so if you have contact or close to you, you could either end up with skin damage, including skin burns … and if you have it long near you it could cause acute radiation sickness,” Dr Robertson said.

It sounds definitively dangerous, but not all dangerous things are lethal (in a short time).
FT article provides further insight: https://archive.ph/iT2zX

- The official added the surveillance balloon “does not create significant” opportunities for China to gather intelligence beyond other methods such as low orbit satellites.

- The US has observed similar activity over the past several years, including during the administration of Donald Trump. Unlike previous years the balloon “is appearing to hang out for a longer period of time this time around”, the defence official said.
It's the same spiel the communists did with calling themselves democracies.

Democracies usually don't call themselves The Democratic Republic Of X. Communist dictatorships do that. Democracies don't build a border wall and call it an anti-fascist protection-wall, communist dictatorships do that.

When someone loudly and repeatedly exclaims how holy and pure they are, my alarms are going off. Yours aren't?
There are significant people involved with this.

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon.

Dr. Avi Loebb - Astrophysicist at Harvard.

Dr. Gary Nolan - Pathologist at Stanford
> It boggles my mind that people seem to read things that are not said.

If one person misreads something, maybe they just misread it. If multiple people misread something, then maybe it wasn't expressed well in the first place.
In hindsight, it's perfectly clear that Fortnite was removed from the App Store for it's irreversible damage done to our teens. Definitely wasn't an early move to strong-arm dissenting developers before regulatory bodies did their own research.
This is one of many problems with the lack of innovation in the home in the last 40 years. Being a former IOT UXE I've been fascinated with this space. It's too bad my pitches never took off.
That's good money, rather than 'starving artist' wages.
Birds are just as fashion conscious as people
I mean, how much training does is take to be a paid thug?

Like how to know exactly when they can seize people's money and stuff like that? That seems like an hour long class.
Theoretically…yes. In actuality governments can make it impossible to exchange Monero for USD/fiat which would render it fairly useless (at scale, anyways).

This is already being frameworked. “Coffee shop” sales of cryptocurrency (even BTC) is now de facto illegal in the USA. You can’t post a Craigslist ad saying “hey I have 100 BTC willing to exchange for USD”. The feds will (and have!!) arrest you for violating AML/KYC.

XMR is currently being considered for an “asset non-grata” classification where any exchange doing USD/XMR transactions would be held accountable for facilitating money laundering because participation in XMR inherently assists in laundering money.
I am glad to read I am not the only one struggling with Teams and Orgs. I spent days trying to find out why I can't join any Teams meetings anymore. It turned out that the account was in an organization that got deactivated. And apparently it's not possible to remove oneself from such an organization… and it leads to your account being broken (at least for Teams meetings).
How about behaviors that have detrimental effects to society at large? It seems like many in this thread can't think of any. I certainly can.
2 side-rants:

* Physical shower controls themselves. The typical US single-handle shower control is awful. Maybe I'm stupid, but it's never intuitive to me which side is hot and which side is cold. Much of the time the handle is pointing down, so you have to visualize an arrow extending through the top of the control, pointing left (hot) when the handle is on the bottom right. Sometimes they point entirely different directions, or the rotational positions of off, cold, hot make no sense at all. As I write this, it occurs to me that it's probably obvious that cold is always closest to "off", and "full on" is always full hot, but I'm over 40 and this has never occurred to me until now, so it can't be just me. Anyway, for whatever reason, when they're not labeled, i've never been able to 'remember' which side is hot and which side is cold. Again, maybe it's just me, but I've never had any other such dyslexic tendencies outside of faucet control. I think in my head "C" is on the left because it places C and H in alphabetical order?

* Tankless hot water heaters. I want to like them. I've had them in my last 2 houses, covering the past 12 years. I can't imagine buying a water heater with a tank, but... The (central) tankless heaters take 15 seconds to turn on, and the water takes forever to make its way across my tiny house. So much water and time is wasted. And they shut off after some minimum flow rate. So if you try to use 'too little' hot mix (hot water heater set 'too high' or cold water input too warm, say, in the summer), the water heater decides to click off.. which you only notice 20 seconds later as the hot water trickles out of the pipes, and now you have to wash, rinse, repeat the whole awful cycle of turning the handle to full hot, waiting for hot water again, turning it down, but hoping you didn't turn it down too far. I've turned the hot water heater down as low as it'll go without much noticeable difference in this behavior in either house. Perhaps because the minimum flow rate actually depends on the setpoint of the hot water, which would make sense. It's worse in the summer. It's only a problem I have in 10% of my showers, but it drives me nuts.
Who is bad at business in this context?
With this a big part of it:

> Fourth quarter 2022 net income includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $2.3 billion included in non-operating income (expense) from the common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., compared to a pre-tax valuation gain of $11.8 billion from the investment in fourth quarter 2021.
There's potentially some merit there, since the expense of the catalyst (and its decontamination process) is a significant barrier to the use of hydrogen fuel cells. That said, I'd expect it to be dramatically less efficient than a fuel cell system.