skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electronic music is difficult to talk about in general, because anything from the synths used to the BPM becomes a differentiator. Did they sample Amen? Automatically it's Drum and Bass. Does it have a 303? Sweet that means its Acid. Slowed down sample? Vaporwave.

With that mindset it's easy to see how people making music these days mix and match based on what they want to create, which in turn causes reviewers to try to point out all the different genres mashed together in a single/album.

Music has a discernible taxonomy, but since it's a universal language of sorts it's easy to get into confusing positions, not unlike the same word meaning something different between two different languages. So while someone might have "true" historic ties to the original Trance genre, is that a requirement for the music they make to be truly considered Trance? Or does it forever gain the lesser label of "Trance-like"?

In a similar vein, if there is a particular musical technique which is somewhat "required" for a track to be in a certain genre does music that skips that technique sometimes get classified as a different genre? Something like Polka has very particular tempo/beat/bassline - how many of those variables can be changed before it's not Polka anymore?

I can understand how these classifications can be handy (especially BPM sorting as someone said it really helps DJs build a set within a few BPM) but the best I can usually do is compare music to something else I know to consider how they are similar and how they differ. I don't usually hear something and immediately consider which genre that sound effect/technique places that track in, so I guess I'm more put off by the rigidity of Ishkur on the topic than anything. Music is fluid and genres are fluid too, and while there are parallels between evolution, DNA, and musical lineage, it isn't nearly as defined as genetics.

When does a genre "evolve" into another distinct genre?
the person i responded to specifically said doordashers. looks like you skipped over that part
> China will do it cheaper and faster than us

its more they will have advantage while abusing Western IP but still keeping its own intact.
I've read anecdotal reports that certain serotonergic psychedelics were useful in recovery of sense of smell following COVID-related parosmia. I wonder if this is the mechanism at play in those cases.
Oh interesting, I thought this was going to be a .gitignore file we could use in all projects :D Do you have any thoughts on rather than listing all the file extensions you don't want to track:
- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/.gitign...
- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/.gitignore
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/main/.gitignor...

You'd list the file extensions you want to track? Here is an example for a PHP project:

*
!/
!.php
!.md
!.xml
!.gitignore
!composer.json

Or Clojure:

*
!/
!.clj
!*.md
target/
!.gitignore

If you have exceptions on these rules, you can always force-add the files or add the extension to .gitignore, to configure it not being ignored.
Damn dude/tte, those are some great tracks. Awesome work!
Frameworks for hard problems like this seem like such a good public service. Is there much low-hanging fruit in this area -- common concurrency problems where people are likely to roll their own solutions because it's hard to find a preexisting framework?
> the copyright law applies and you cannot simply duplicate somebodies likeness

In many countries (like the US), someone's likeness is not covered by copyright law in the first place (in some US jurisdictions, publicity/personality rights may apply, but these are state-law rights and more likely to apply to people, e.g. celebrities, with already-commercialized identities, and against commercial use; they are much more limited than copyright rights.)

For porn/nudes specifically, revenge porn laws (which mostly are aimed at unauthorized release of actual imagery of the targeted kind, but aren’t always narrowly crafted) might also apply.
Exactly who is "society" here? I find it hard to imagine something that is less deserving of being funded by "society" than open source software.

Maybe first the companies and individuals who use OSS could fund it? It's not like those people are the ones struggling to live in this modern world.
> Does that include hate speech?

Yes.

> Does that include the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertising?

Yes, although this is a bit tangential as this declaration is mostly concerned with freedom of personal political speech, and in most countries companies and individuals are distinguished from each other. Actually this is also the case for the U.S., except for in the case of political speech for reasons.

> Does that include the right to "cancel" someone?

If by cancel, you mean to fire someone for speech, that’s really a matter of employment law, which differs by country and even industry.

If you mean the right to “call out”, yes.

How did I ascertain this? By reading the UDHR, Article 19:

> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

The only part everyone (everyone here meaning every government and every tech company) hasn’t decided on is whether or not to enforce Article 19, which is why the declaration encourages them to.

I think in general there has been a kind of anemia combined with infantilization introduced into political discourse where people believe issues are too complex or too divisive to be resolved.

When we decide that issues are too complicated to be decided on by the polis, only the most extreme viewpoints will end up seeing their goals accomplished. Which is precisely what has happened on the issue of free speech, as governments ban protest, ban certain kinds of speech, all while ostensibly (but not really) “speaking for the people”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg
Aren't all the oligarchs building their escape bunkers in New Zealand?
Encryption can't hide the fact that there is a signal. Sufficiently secure encryption makes it so that any ciphertext you receive is equally likely to have been produced by any plaintext. But if you're able to observe that some ground station on Earth transmits radio to the same point in orbit, at the same time, every day, and receives a response, the fact that that is happening can defininitely be distinguished from any natural process.

By the same token, if humanity disappeared but left a bunch of encrypted hard drives around and aliens came and found them, they may have no hope of distinguishing the bits from random bits, but they'd be able to tell that no natural process encodes any kind of bits at all onto magnetic discs or flash drives or whatever else we manage to come up with.

The actual issue is what the other commenter said about the impossibility of detecting such low power radio at all.
Is "some cases" closer to 1% or 50+%? That paper is behind a paywall.

How does it do on normal and other common distributions?
> If I made fake porn of Donald Trump under your explanation, that is considered sexual assault, even if I tell everyone it is fake. Why?

Because, as I said, you are using someone's likeness to make sexually explicit material without their consent. What are you not understanding here?

> Would making a parody video of Donald Trump getting beaten up also be considered assault?

No.

> Would making a parody video of the pope denouncing god be considered the same?

No.

> I'm sure all three are genuinely offensive.

It being offensive isn't the problem.

> I'm just trying to understand, maybe its because I have a background growing up in a clothing optional community and being in poly relationships so I just have a much less taboo view of sexuality. But how can a fake video of someone that everyone knows is fake by itself be assault?

I am also poly (though never been clothing optional) but the problem is the "if" in your statement there, if everyone knows it's fake, that's doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting there. Do we know it's fake? Will we know the next model version of it is fake? If it is perfectly, completely realistically rendered, which as I understand it, is plus or minus the goal of generative art, to be completely and totally realistic?

We have a whole ass 63% of the United States who think angels are real, and that's based on nothing but the bible and indoctrination, do you think it's that big of a stretch for them to think that video of Trump pounding Obama in the backside is real, even if Obama has six fingers?

> Instead of making it illegal to generate AI porn of celebrities, maybe we should examine our culture and why we see sexualization as so threatening. Why do we freak out if our kids see two people having sex but don't blink an eye when they see violence in movies?

It's not about sex being threatening, it's about sex requiring informed, understood, and enthusiastic consent. Because if you don't own your own fucking face anymore, what do you own? If you can't even hold your own private bare ass naked form as something that is yours, only yours, and something no one else may have access to without your consent, what can you even say you do own anymore?

I posit the exact opposite question: why is it you are entitled to make pornography featuring the absolutely stunning likeness of Emma Watson? Because she's a "public figure?" Simply because you have the capability?
Absolutely agreed, but self interest is. Populist and nationalist parties like AfD are rising throughout Europe [1], and most of the Western world. IMO this is not because of geopolitical positions, but in contradiction to them. It's not about doing what is good or bad to some foreign country, but about doing what is good for your own country and your own people.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/world/europe/bavaria-elec...
Unless you want to package and share that tool with your coworkers :P
> Do not use recent C features unless you need them. VLA's in particular are a bad choice.

VLA are closer to a deprecated feature than a recent feature: they were mandatory in C99, and made optional in C11.
I love this game to death. I didn't discover it until the late '90s, but it's just tons of fun, despite (without walkthroughs) requiring multiple playthroughs to get enough "virtual clairvoyance" to beat.

On top of that, the super-melee mode is a plenty-fun spacewar alike for two players.
One of the rarer side effects of using Zicam nasal spray is loss of sense of smell. Somebody experiencing this reported that they accidentally restored their sense of smell by being exposed to pepper spray.

There are nasal decongestants out there that are essentially dilute capsaicin in suspension in saline (as a sufferer of sinus infections I have tried most things at this point). It's not pleasant, but it's less unpleasant than eating food that's way too spicy, and nowhere near as bad as getting wasabi fumes up your nose.

If memory serves there are several other ways that capsaicin can unstick the nervous system. Might be worth a try.
I don't use the blower on acorns in established grass (I use a rake and/or a high-lift mower then).

I do use the blower on newly being-established grass (fresh seeding or over-seeding), where the raking and extra walking/pushing would destroy the new grass.
It was unintended.

>The ideal situation would be to move these services to be installed when VPN is first USED (post purchase) and not at install time.
A lot of stuff the user cares about (documents, pictures, browser profiles) are readwritable from the user context
Being one of the biggest publishing softwares naturally attracts all of that: more publicity/cases, uninformed users, incentive and a probing/persistence ecosystem for hackers,.

I have to host a few dozen WordPress sites for customers and the ones that got hacked were all backtracked to: enumerating usernames, and some had their password equal that.
You could blame WordPress for not being more strict rejecting those per default.
You should replace that font with the Highway Gothic font for highway signs. That'll show the HOA!
Reddit's blockchain-based "Community Points" tokens crash after sunsetting
Hours to a handful of days usually. If I knew where they were I would spend less time driving across the county trying to find places where the lights are still on where I can fill up my truck and gas generator. Since I got a briefcase sized gas generator I don't have to worry about food thawing or myself overheating in the summer since I can run box fans in the shade. They generally provide enough juice to power on a whole house natural gas heater in the wintertime.
Yamaha Reface DX is a pretty good alternative. These go for 250 and have a keyboard and the UI is better (not perfect but better than a few buttons for programming the TX81Z).

For a 3-400 a Yamaha sy-77 is also a decent alternative with 6 FM-ops and AWM2.
> wild salmon is a much better choice compared to farmed salmon

there are these believes that wild salmon has more mercury and other toxic stuff.
It's strange how some people believe that their own worldview should be the only correct one.

I have a few small open source projects and have contributed to hundreds more, and I am perfectly happy knowing I will never see a cent for those efforts. My reward for all of that work is not monetary and I would never want it to be.

It's like people are straight-up _offended_ at the notion that there might be a person out there doing programming for free and then giving it to the world with nothing expected in return.
Do companies bring freelancers in for interviews without there being some communication about the tech/stack for which they are looking for expertise? I get the OP's point that all of the tech/stacks are just tools in the box: you use the right tool for the job without having any sentimental or emotional attachment to it.

That said, if interviewers are skeptical about someone with multi-stack development you should be able to leverage that by emphasizing that seeing how problems are solved in different stacks gives you unique insight into the hidden gotchas that aren't apparent to devs wedded to a single stack. I did several years of contracting (all in C#) and was able to explain that I had seen Entity Framework implemented in five different ways and could speak the advantages/disadvantages of each set of implementation decisions (and would be happy to mentor the team on such matters).

Ultimately the business needs a problem solved and you can solve the problem. To build on the analogy of another commenter: you can bake the bread they need whether they have an electric oven, gas oven, wood-fired pizza oven or just a bonfire in an open field: you've done it all. Not only can you help them solve their immediate problem but you can advise them on how best to position them to avoid future problems they don't realize they are about to run into because in 20 years you've pretty much seen it all.
Detecting life on Earth could be done with a telescope able to take spectra of Earth from the aliens' home system. They could look at Earth compared to the Sun and other planets in the system and see Earth has a bunch of biosignatures that would be broken down by the Sun's UV radiation if not constantly regenerated.

One or two markers would be inconclusive but a bunch of different ones would give a high probability of life existing here. It's why the "Dark Forest" concept is fundamentally silly. There's no hiding Earth's biosignatures.

If the arbitrarily advanced aliens have a long enough measurement baseline and are within 150 or so light years they could also see the technosignatures of the Industrial Revolution with different air pollutants. If they're within about 60-70 light years they'd start seeing evidence of radioactive isotopes from above ground nuclear testing.
it's an issue opened by brave's vp noting that the current behaviour should be corrected
I am sad because Paul Reiche III has left the project, though it seems he did write a story before leaving --
https://pistolshrimpgames.com/2023/09/uqm2-update-summer-202...

From Fred:

"Well, after 30+ years working with Paul, I would never speak for him, but he got to a point where his focus was fractured and he couldn't do justice to any of his competing interests. He stuck it out with us long enough to deliver the story/worldbuilding side and now, as always, he's trusting me and the rest of us to bring it home. Will he be able to return? Unknown. Is he still my best friend? For sure."

https://old.reddit.com/r/uqm2/comments/16h50qp/uqm2_update_s...
This is really dismissive.

It should be obvious that, to the OP, the important part is the 1% that is unique, not the 99% which isn't.
Structural integrity. The pins might move around or push back without it, over time?
I took one for the team and updated Brave to latest. No VPN services of any kind that I can see. Could it be that I'm in EU?
I recommend https://intervals.icu for everything sport related.
We fired out first agent, he sucked. The jaggoff tried strong arming us into dropping our listing 20k because we didn’t get an offer the first weekend. He tried strong arming us into striking out the repair procedure clause on a purchase offer on a house with obvious signs of subfloor damage due to a water leak on a bathroom. Wanted to argue with me, a man with years of experience in plumbing, on the topic even.

Our second (seller) agent was a godsend. She managed to get a <24 turnaround hour repair after I fell through the ceiling in the kitchen to keep our inspection on sale on track. (Someone neglected to nail down a beam in the attic…)

Our third agent (buyer) saved the day, we woke up January 1 and our dream home went off market and we’d booked a trip for January 2 to visit the home 5 hours away. He tracked down the original owners and arranged for us to visit the now off market house, ultimately getting the owners to sell after they decided to throw in the towel. He also handled all the insanity while we prepared our move from afar.

If you’re a cash-investment buyer I’m sure a marketplace with minimal legal fees is the ticket. If you’re a random family stressed to death by the ordeal, I don’t necessarily mind paying the fee.
Mmmm..;. job of modern OS is to use/manage MMU. Prior to DEC, OS just automated version of human feeding punch cards/spooling up tape.

DEC provided the necessary hardware MMU to do actual real time multi-processing/multi-user access in feasibile/practical manner.
I thought the goal of NFT was money laundering with something of fake value?
- Accelerated ice melt - The Gulf Stream brings warm water near Greenland and Antarctica. Its weakening could disrupt this process, potentially speeding up ice sheet melt.

I don't understand this one. Why would the reduction in warm water brought to Greenland cause the ice sheets to melt more?
That's a very real problem, but one would hope that package managers would be a lot more widely adopted in that counterfactual world. Maybe that's a naive hope.
> for package delivery it's not unreasonable to expect packages not to be delivered during a multi-day blackout.

Except for plenty of people who rely upon package delivery for medications which can have very limited shelf-life, or require being chilled, with limited time before the icepack or dry ice melts?
Weird, I remember when there was an epidemic of anosmia caused by zinc containing nasal sprays/gels: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16467707/ Guess oral supplementation is ok?
Can someone explain the context of this apparently being a big deal?
So then what's stopping you from running the BB(748) machine, getting the number, then running the ZFC machine and proving ZFC consistent or not?
To be fair, WordPress core has gotten better. The bigger problem is that there are many WordPress plugins, and many of the plugins can't even pretend to be related to being secure.

Until developers are widely taught how to develop secure software, the problem will just keep moving around. We can't make software development environments where it's impossible to create a vulnerability, and we will never convince users to stop wanting new capabilities. Making things secure in the first place needs to be part of the solution.
I am not a fan of the space combat, but barring that this is a fantastic game that I discovered very late on in my adulthood. The sense of adventure and exploration is unmatched IMHO.
gRPC request context which caries values across microservice boundaries
Hey everyone, I've recently created an open source library on top of grpc-kotlin and grpc-java that allows you to propagate a context across microservice boundaries throughout an entire request lifetime. The existing io.grpc.Context (https://grpc.github.io/grpc-java/javadoc/io/grpc/Context.htm...) only propagates a context across API boundaries within the same container and does not cross microservice boundaries.

It's called KonigKontext, check it out here: https://github.com/konigsoftware/konig-kontext!

Example use cases include:

Propagating security principals, or user credentials and identifiers throughout an entire request lifetime across all of your microservices.
Propogating distributed tracing information. Set a request trace id upon receiving a request and later access that id in any downstream microservice.
However, Konig Kontext is built to support any type of context value, so it can be extended to fit any specific use cases as well.

Let me know what you think!
lmao, no hedge?
> What would stop more and more people choosing to become freeloaders if UBI is implemented?

The promise of property and personal wealth, probably. UBI wouldn't be enough to live off of for most people, and there's no incentive to make it that way. Nobody would vote for a UBI definition that gives San Fran residents more money to cover their oh-so expensive housing.

As-is though, many people think there aren't any economic incentives in the status-quo. Low-end jobs in retail and food service are going unfilled across America, and it's not because of UBI. People hate the jobs, and the market is being forced to respond. If competing with the promise of UBI is too difficult for employers, they probably weren't offering a living wage in the first place.
> reason is their stock is still flat

It's up 20% in the last 6 months
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TEAM:NASDAQ?sa=X&ved=2a...
Yeah, I really don't understand why people use signed integers so often. They seem... quirky. Especially in C where signed overflow is UB. I guess they're syntactically the default.

Would you consider the fixed width integer types (uint8_t, etc) a recent C feature worth using? The older type's size being implementation defined seems like a major pain to me, but I haven't used C much.
Right but it can still pull the "Windsorized mean" to a particular direction. E.g. if your distribution is

-99, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 98, 99

and you "Windsorize" your mean, you'll pull it towards one direction.

Here, we get:

mean: 9.91
median: 1
Windsorized mean: 18.91
truncated (Olympic) mean: 12.11
2-truncated mean[1]: 1.43

as you see "Windsorized mean" is exaggerated on the positive direction.

[1] this is when I remove top and bottom 2 values and calculate the mean of all the remaining values.
Not just banning, but enforcing the ban. Our town banned them ... with a $50 fine, which landscapers are happy to pay the once or twice a year they get dinged, if it means they don't have to buy new equipment.
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