skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA starts down an important path - identifying different categories of users - but doesn't really get this quite right IMO.

There are (at least) four categories of DAW users:

1. Professionals who are being paid to make music, and for whom time is essentially money. Tools that speed up the production of that music are both financially valuable to them, and also make their overall lives easier (if done right).

2. Musicians for whom making music is a creative act of self-expression. They are not being paid by the hour (of music, or of effort), they are not under deadlines, but they do want tools that fit their own workflow and understanding of what the process should look like.

3. People who just want to have fun making music. Their level of performance virtuosity is likely low, and the originality of what they produce is likely to be judged by most music fans to be low. They want results that can be quickly obtained and are recognizable musical in whatever style they are aiming at, and they don't want to feel bogged down by the technology and process.

4. Audio engineers in a variety of fields who have little to no interest/need for music composition, but are faced with the task of taking a variety of audio data and transforming it radically or subtly to create the finished version, whether that's a collection of musical compositions or a podcast or a move soundtrack.

The same individual may, at different times, be a member of more than one of these groups (or other groups that I've omitted).

The needs of each of these groups overlap to a degree, but specifically the extent to which the current conception of AI in music&audio can help them, and how it may do so, are really quite different.

We can already see this in the current DAW world, where the set of users of DAWs like Live, Bitwig and FL Studio tends to be somewhat disjoint from the users of ProTools, Logic and Studio One.

TFA acknowledges this to some degree, but I don't think it does enough to recognize the different needs of these groups/workflows. Nevertheless, not a bad overview of the challenges/possibilities that we're facing.
+1 Feels like they don't care who's their readership. Felt like they told me: "If you're not in the industry, Google it."

DAW : Digital Audio Workstation
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-a-daw
> there is a right to have others forget

This is different from what the article (and ruling) are talking about. This is not about going in people's memory and deleting them, neurolizer style. It's not even talking to get the page down. It's talking about stopping to smear that person's name by advertising the publication.

> There is no parallel in history

Yes there is. If someone smears your name on billboards you're allowed to sue. Yesterday I read a story of a comedian who was getting YouTube videos about his plagiarism taken down. If you are publish stuff about a corporation that is bad for them, you might be sued to take it down. Plenty of examples.
The internet is global yet you can't deport people abroad to answer libel charges. Cyberbullying does not have borders.

Allowing someone to delist information via the single most important bottleneck, the search engine, is a very reasonable solution.
>It automatically pushes unwanted feature updates

Unwanted for who? Maybe a lot of users actually need the newer features that get shipped.
Without a doubt, and it’s well known in urban planning and landscaping too. But in a discussion about why industry might be harmful, not having facts to back yourself up makes your case effectively irrelevant. Even pointing to countless reforestation projects with heaps of positive precipitation and hydrological data is no help; as long as the mechanism isn’t clear, people who want to maintain business as usual will not listen.

So, information like this is a huge help and a step towards having a more crystallized picture of why forests are crucial to hydrology.
When the first iPhone came out it was ludicrously bad compared to a current Blackberry. No copy/paste, no multitasking between apps, email wasn't in landscape mode, I mean I could go on.

So it's pretty clear that iPhone won because of two factors, exclusivity/eyecandy, and the other manufacturers didn't try hard enough to catch up.

Because for productivity the iPhone was just pure garbage when it came out, and for several years.
We really need to change the regulations around the introduction of new chemical compounds to our environment on a mass scale.

We keep encountering situations like this where a new chemical compound was introduced, becomes ubiquitous in our diets or environments and only later do we find out "Oops, it has serious health or environmental consequences."

It is worth the cost of slower introduction of new materials to take the time to ensure that those materials are safe. We're still paying the cost of introducing lead into our environment in a myriad of subtle ways. We still don't fully understand what the cost of the introduction of microplastics or PFAS is going to be. And regardless of the whether this particular study holds up under replication it is looking increasingly likely that aspartame is not something we should be consuming.

And what's most frustrating is that the people who profited most from these compounds never pay for the damage they cause to generations.
Despite his positive reputation here, Scott Alexander has similar issues - he does not only rely on gold standard research
I don't see why it would be expensive, for no other than Google, to set up a microwave oven with a factory rooted phone and a femtocell inside on ~dozen locations worldwide. There's no special legal or financial complexities in doing that.

And selling phones that can't pass certification is just irresponsible. If you can't make a product work, you're free to be responsible and cancel a product. It's on Google to do businesses legally.
The time sharing system on the SDS 940 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie) led to TENEX on the PDP-10.
Linus Tech Tips has one complete with an isolated private 5G network inside. I’m sure Google could manage.
When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems they got OpenOffice people, and they could have tried to build such a thing on top of the light version of Oracle. That’s when I learned the complaints about Larry were right. Larry only cares about Larry, money, and the Church of the Database. Fixing spreadsheets is a little too egalitarian.
> The thing that many of us are personally responsible for and should feel guilty about is shutting our eyes, and not doing enough to correct the inequity that still exists today.

This is what I meant by the "continued oppression", so we agree with each other.
We agree with each other.
Telegram has announced a partnership with Tencent
How does that matter? If you're diagnosed autism, then, guess what, you have autism. It's not binary, but why does it matter? If it goes from 0.04 autism to 0.79 autism. Nothing in life is black and white. The importance of this research was to find if a correlation exists. They confirmed that it does.
Yesn't, you can by, e.g., using qemu[0]. This however has the obvious downside of not accounting for pipelining and cache as well as the subset of instructions encoded in microcode vs. hardware. All of those are very important but CPU (microarchitecture, cache) specific.

[0]: For example: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/replay.html#instructi... more can be found searching the docs.
The correct thing to do is to leave these comments as a code review and let the contributor fix it. No one argued in favor of accepting a buggy patch.
Why just the males though? Is there a hypothesis for why it only affects them?

I wonder, are we simply underdianosing the women with autism as usual?

And I wonder if there's a correlation between drinking diet sodas (as opposed to naturally sweetened?) and getting your children evaluated for autism (like, say - diet soda drinkers are on average wealthier, and that correlates with better access to healthcare and more parental involvement, thus reducing underdiagnosis of autism?)

Given how sensitive obstetrics are to even small risks and how prevalent aspartame is, I'd be surprised if there is a genuine causal link here of such strong statistical effect. I mean, how many people use zofran? And yet obstetrics we're limiting its use in pregnant women just for a very very small alleged increase in the risk of heart problems in the baby.
DJ mag aint what it used to be. The top 100 is pretty much a joke to most people who care about music.
I'm getting my news from a couple journals of Glacier Media group, that gives me a pretty good idea of the best deals at Cambodian Tyre, and how many cats got strained during the last marmot festival.
It's a sentence fragment without a verb.

"DOJ v Google evidence release" is a noun phrase.

If you wanted to rewrite it as a sentence and weren't constrained by conventions used in headlines, you could rewrite it as, "Evidence released in DOJ v Google case includes an exhibit that the Judge called embarrassing [for Google]"
Related: https://wiki.saito.io/en/consensus/sybils
People aren't trying to turn the C++ programming language into a financial system with wide adoption.
> what's most frustrating is that the people who profited most from these compounds never pay for the damage they cause

The people were naive. It's not like they had malicious intent. 'Don't hate lazy people - they did nothing'
Take your anti Sam Harris elsewhere conspiracy theorist
How dare big bad NATO not let me genocide my neighbors. Clearly NATO is the source of all the problems in the region.
I keep warning Hackernews not to trust fungi, and people downvoted me for it. But I keep getting proved right. Don't trust those spores. They're everywhere: in the trees, in the breeze, even our cheese.
> And what's most frustrating is that the people who profited most from these compounds never pay for the damage they cause to generations.

It cost exactly $0 to not drink poison
Perhaps you are right. However, from the article:

>The US warnings come at the end of a week of high tension, beginning with an ambush by well-armed Serb paramilitaries on a Kosovan police patrol, in which a policeman was killed. Three Serb gunmen were killed in the ensuing battle, near the village of Banjskë.
>Serbia declared a day of mourning for the three dead Kosovo Serbs, and Vučić falsely claimed Kosovo forces were conducting a campaign of “brutal ethnic cleansing” against ethnic Serbs.

This is textbook prelude to invasion. Additionally, Serbia has a fairly recent history (30 years ago was not that long ago) of warring in Croatia and Bosnia, where the predominant sentiment just before was that there is no way that Serbia would unleash the former Yugoslavian army on countries it just "yesterday" called brothers and sisters. Then they unleashed the army and gave full support to paramilitary forces spreading terror and reintroducing concentration camps to Europe. Moreover, the current president is a past pupil of a nationalist leader from the 90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojislav_%C5%A0e%C5%A1elj) who played a huge role in supporting wars and warcrimes that painted the west of the former Yugoslavia red with blood. Given the context of this, and given the history of the country and its president who is "just posturing", it would be extremely foolish if Kosovo does not fully prepare for an invasion.
Experimental nasal spray may offer easy remedy for treating rapid heartbeat
> The oracle problem has not been solved.

The oracle problem has had an obvious solution all along (for most relevant usecases): the legal system. Just because you need the governments where the real assets are located to play along doesn't diminish the value of open, programmable, transactional transfers of ownership. Indeed, a lot of the process around buying something like a house is to try to emulate software in human institutions. Canonical registers of ownership recognised by legal systems are typically digital anyway these days, just not publicly digital. If the legal system recognises the blockchain as the canonical record of ownership for a class of asset, then there is no oracle problem (I think democracies should be getting their politicians to look at this, but in the meantime, depending on your jurisdiction there are often things that you can do with trusts that amount to the same thing).

On top of that, intellectual assets and digital native assets are increasingly important, and there is no oracle problem for such assets.

> But every single person still in crypto is there mostly for speculation, get rich quick schemes

This is such a weak argument, and thoroughly untrue. Of course, there are many people with those motivations, just as many people engage with the fiat currency world with those motivations, but it doesn't take long to ascertain that that is not the primary motivation of people like myself or the author of this blog.
Maybe: only trust science that is statistically significant and can be replicated?
How does that fare for non-English queries? E.g. are two chars still not enough for Chinese languages?
Self-assembling material pops into 3D [video]
You're thinking of "trawling", not trolling.
A beverage is a combination of its compounds.

What else did you expect?
you guys remember the archaic "which" article that was on hackernews a few days ago?

"DOJ vs Google evidence releases, which evidence judge calls embarrassing"

found it!: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629780
If they can’t responsibly provide a facility then they shouldn’t provide it.

I don’t even mean just accidental issues. In this case they were warned over many years and were negligent.

They do not care to provide a responsible service, because a responsible service reduces engagement.

Their older algorithm was much more scalable with a void of moderation. It used to favor recent shares among your most interacted with friends.

While that doesn’t prevent group think, it does reduce amplification of emotionally charged posts. Today, a post that has a lot of engagement, even across a wider social network, is higher on your feed. That means that if I have some crazy acquaintance that I never really talk to, the second they start posting anything high engagement, it’ll come to me. Previously it would understand that I don’t care about them.

Meta chased the tail of engagement and don’t care what the second order effects are.
there's a couple things going on there. Photsynthesis isn't absorbing much its ~1-2% efficiency (so mostly just waste heat) but plants are mostly water which has a high heat capacity so it warms slower than a kiln dried wood structure. Wood/bark is also way less reflective than concrete and (living) plants respond to heat by opening up pores and letting water evaporate out of them (basically sweating) which can lower the dry bulb temperature (especially if there's any breeze).
More time than we have for what?
Would you mind providing an example or two? I hear this often on HN, but it never happens to me (perhaps because I use Adblock?)
You would've had Epstein's history erased after his first stint in jail
For various reasons autism is often under-diagnosed in women, so I wouldn't be surprised that if this effect holds up it's not actually gender-specific. That's a bunch of big "ifs" though.
Back then, payola meant that people listened whatever the labels wanted to make popular. it's very much an intentional, manufacturered factory.
Ok then switch to Bing, or Yahoo, or DDG, or Yandex, or…
Yes, but the benefits of textual representation you mention are UI too - the text you manipulate does not have to be the same as the serialization format/canonical representation.
Nowhere the article claims that such infections are the only cause for autism.

It’s just one datapoint, but it’s an _interesting_ datapoint nevertheless, because it seems so unrelated. A good starting point for an investigation, I’d say.
That line is much more a reference to lead in the gasoline, pfas and microplastics in the drinking water. It in fact costs quite a bit of money to avoid these compounds and in many cases the damage was already done before people were aware of the risk.

Meanwhile, the investors and executives of the companies that produced these compounds are quite wealthy.
I don’t like the so-called fluent interface. And control structures duplicated by methods are ugly as well. RIP command-query separation and clear OOP semantics.
I would say “code generator” here but there’s only been one domain where I’ve seen respectable code being generated and that’s CSS. before SCSS and Less I’d never met one that didn’t horrify or even terrify me. Haven’t met many since, either.

But in theory a code generator could be evacuated to version control and forked. Of course you have no commit history, which impoverishes the value of the code, but you have something.
It hurts everyone when 70-75% of all trade happens with NATO+ members - countries that Serbia would directly be in a state of war with if they enter Kosovo and break the Kumanova Agreement.

Even Russia never had that level of dependency on NATO+ trade partners before 2022 or before 2014.
Why the need to restrict the second one to business only? Not sure I see a need for that.

The first one kind of exists in various commercial forms but they are really expensive. Would your version be a kind of public utility?
The interwebs tells me that

| Whereas the umlaut represents a sound shift, the diaeresis indicates a specific vowel letter that is not pronounced as part of a digraph or diphthong.

I.e., graphically there's no difference. Thus I don't really care to call it one word or the other. Sure, 'diaeresis' is more correct that 'umlaut', but most English speakers -I suspect!- are more likely to recognize the latter than the former.
Show HN: Stargazers Reloaded – LLM-Powered Analyses of Your GitHub Community
Hey friends!

We have built an app for getting insights about your favorite GitHub community using large language models.

The app uses LLMs to analyze the GitHub profiles of users who have starred the repository, capturing key details like the topics they are interested in. It takes screenshots of the stargazer's GitHub webpage, extracts text using an OCR model, and extracts insights embedded in the extracted text using LLMs.

This app is inspired by the “original” Stargazers app written by Spencer Kimball (CEO of CockroachDB). While the original app exclusively used the GitHub API, this LLM-powered app built using EvaDB additionally extracts insights from unstructured data obtained from the stargazers’ webpages.

Our analysis of the fast-growing GPT4All community showed that the majority of the stargazers are proficient in Python and JavaScript, and 43% of them are interested in Web Development. Web developers love open-source LLMs!

We found that directly using GPT-4 to generate the “golden” table is super expensive — costing $60 to process the information of 1000 stargazers. To maintain accuracy while also reducing cost, we set up an LLM model cascade in a SQL query, running GPT-3.5 before GPT-4, that lowers the cost to $5.5 for analyzing 1000 GitHub stargazers.

We’ve been working on this app for a month now and are excited to open source it today :)

Some useful links:

* Blog Post - https://medium.com/evadb-blog/stargazers-reloaded-llm-powere...

* GitHub Repository - https://github.com/pchunduri6/stargazers-reloaded/

* EvaDB - https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb

Please let us know what you think!
Unless you live in a city with bad water like Flint, MI or any of the other cities where officials have purposefully poisoned the water supply or just never modernized it.
It is virtually impossible to draw such conclusions. Nutrition studies are typically self reported and people are bad at remembering what they ate. It's also a single variable among thousands of confounding variables.
Even if the reason you're being physically assaulted is for a crime you did do, yes, information about this shouldn't still be easy to reach on the internet by your release from prison.

Adding mob justice to the formal legal system doesn't make it better.

> Removed from newspaper archives too?

No, but most people don't look in the archives so that doesn't matter.
Wrong animal. Stochastic horses.
As a mobile gaming pioneer you can tell more stories...
> This isn’t about political correctness, it’s about basic respect and empathy for other people.

This is what it ultimately comes down to. Unfortunately, a large segment of our population doesn't value basic respect and empathy, and we end up with this current (ridiculous) 100+ comment thread.

My buddy goes by a nickname because he was originally named after his abusive father and he'd rather not be reminded of the guy. I have two choices: 1. I could insist on calling him by his original name using excuses like "Well, that's technically your name" and "I have the free speech right to call you by that name" and "I think changing one's name is dumb" and "Why should I lift a finger" and "You can’t force me to..." and blah blah blah, or 2. I can simply respect his wishes and call him by his preferred nickname.

Option 2 doesn't cost me anything, causes zero drama, and makes everything better. It's a no-brainer. Yet vast swaths of America seem to stubbornly want to go with option 1, on this and many similar issues, resulting in unnecessary fighting, grief, drama, protests, counter-protests, pain, suffering... all because they lack empathy.
Press x to doubt. Aspartame is the most studied chemical on earth. I would need to see this replicated before giving it any creedence.
I worked for BlackBerry, then called RIM, for 3 years starting just before the launch of the Bold 9000. I implemented the automated test harness for our first touch devices.

It wasn't the iPhone, or a lack of a desire to respond to the iPhone, that brought us down. It was consistently poor execution at scale.

RIMs success grew out of the work they did when they were a couple hundred people spread around a neighbourhood in Waterloo. That group had excellent culture and good habits for execution, which failed to scale beyond that region.

When I joined there were about 10,000 of us, spread in offices all over the world. I only visited half a dozen, but the vibe in every single one was notable worse then the HQ. People didn't understand the plans, were constantly duplicating work happening at other locations, and had very little ability to communicate with leadership.
Yeahhh this is pretty weak. Reading the doc [1] there's nothing about getting users "hooked on search". The point is that Google is able to "ignore the demand side" simply because search is so sticky: it turns out that users are not likely to switch search engines if the results are good enough. That means it has similar economics to drugs and cigarettes, but not that search is addictive like the headline heavily implies. Ars is usually better than this.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-09/416692.pdf
I've tried a few of the FLOSS photography tools. I'm impressed with them, but I prefer the Adobe suite for how I work.

There's also a few other tools like Fusion 360, games, etc. that I prefer having Windows around for.
It's the zeitgeist: attack all manner of institutions with absolutely no plan or appetite to rebuild them.
I too have been wondering what the future is for the Detroit Auto Workers....
Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI
The claim is that there is a link for male offspring, not that there is no link for female offspring---that would be a very different claim.

From the abstract of the study [0]:

> No statistically significant associations were found in females.

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3772
And, it’s worth pointing out that the sales volumes of iPhones and just Samsungs (not counting any other brand) are many times that of Pixel, so if there was an issue even nearly as frequent with those phones it would definitely have been noticed by now.
Emergency calls should have the highest priority on networks.
The 95% confidence intervals all start at 1.1 or lower. Call me when the statistics become meaningful.