skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An EPA ban can't do anything about natural mineral asbestos that occurs near many residential areas. Floods continue to contaminate residential areas with natural asbestos and have done so for millennia. Recent report from Washington state:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfbedUVOxCU

California's state rock is serpentinite, which is known for its often beautiful green coloration, and for containing chrysotile asbestos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite

There's an outcrop near the Golden Gate bridge (scroll down for photo):

https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/education/serpentinite-faq.ht...
I've been playing with it (their V3 model) and its super cool. The best of what I've seen so far.

How to get fun:

1. Use "custom mode" (to feed your own lyrics). Auto-generated lyrics is lame.

2. Create wild "remixes" of your favorite tracks or poetry. E.g. I was able to create nu-metal or opera versions of my favorite hip-hop tracks. It can even sing in Russian (my native tongue) — and I was amazed of the quality of generation.

Can't wait until these models will become more controllable — like ControlNet but for music. We need more knobs!
> amounts to having political control over land use decisions

This exists in America, in ways that have generally escaped the label of "Communism". The most basic example of this most will be familiar with is zoning laws, but there is significant precedent otherwise. There will always be a gradient of control, and claiming that a singular government action in expansion is therefore communist is not intellectually honest.
He has more important things to do than perfecting a presentation. He likes his employees to message him freely with things they think he can help with.
Some levels of safety must be designed in, and those designs have the attractive property that they do not necessarily rely on continued organizational competence. Not that that's a bad thing. The more layers of defense the merrier, of course.
When he had that slide up with generating everything I was kind of expecting that he'd say this whole keynote is generated including him. That'd have been crazy.
Show HN: File-based cache for slow Python functions
With respect, I don't entirely agree.

I do think you're right in sentiment; things would look very differently. If given a choice, I'd rather live in a slower-paced society where development was held to higher standards.

What we have now is a complete shit show.
>If you become really big, you get x amount of time to implement a11y.

What's that if not regulation?
I wouldn't be so sure. ByteDance (TikTok) implemented a moving GC for Go: https://youtu.be/DpQgJ06ZjGc?si=FviWDGa7HhBRBrO1
> Much of ecommerce growth in the past 2 years has been due to tiktok.

Literally any kind of source for this claim, please?
No, they don't understand. This isn't a forum of hackers any more, it's a forum of get rich quick capitalists trying to make bank on the latest popular trade. Accessibility is for losers, that's how sociopaths operate and Silicon Valley is a nest of them.
>thousands to millions of writers/producers are going to use this to rapidly block out pop songs

I’d never considered how the inevitable dystopia would sound, and it’s worse than I ever dared to fear
client side state that isn't in the URL or local storage
He said he didn't rehearse well. I think it makes him come across very genuinely, not some dumb hyperpolished corporate blabla
Out of those 2k repos, how many of them actually used in production?
One of the major optimizations is to pass function arguments in registers instead of on the stack. These registers might preserve their original values by the time you unwind the stack, but in many cases, probably won't. Preserving those values would lead to fewer available registers and/or more frequent register saving, which would create at least some overhead, even if you don't ever inspect it.

There are probably lots of situations where it's worth it, though.
One year before passing away, he sent a beautiful email to himself with this sense of awe:

"I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

I do not make any of my own clothing.

I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use.

I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.

I am moved by music I did not create myself.

When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.

I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being."
Bach's Cancrizans-Symmetric Music
Yeah it’s good for the kinds of emails that people don’t really read or, at best, just skim over
I question whether it's actually true that they "aren't going to do it any safer than you would". I'd expect the typical person I hire to have a lot more experience than me which would give them a chance to be safer, to the point I'd expect it to overcome even the fact that they're probably not taking their time as much as I would.

Separately, being liable for something happening to someone else and that same thing happening to me are not equivalent. Macabre as it is, I'd rather pay out (or have my insurance pay) the lawsuit for a professional hired for a particular task ending up grievously injured than end up grievously injured myself. In a lot of cases, I'd doubt you'd even be financially liable. From a moral standpoint there's still some culpability, but in the case of garage springs I think your obligation is more to stress to the professional that you're happy for them to take their time and you're willing to pay accordingly than it is to subject yourself to the risk instead. From a societal standpoint, a few repairpeople building up expertise at a particular task is safer than everyone doing it individually.
My problem with "hallucination" isn't that it makes error sound better or worse, it's that it makes it sound like there's a consciousness involved when there isn't.
guy is messing it up bigtime and in real-time as well. sheesh. none of his jokes are landing. “we had 2 customers. we have more now”. long pause. screen behind him covered with logos of all his customers. pause. pause. finally applause.
ok on to the next tidbit.

whole conference has been proceeding like this now. look if you invite cramer and the wall street crowd, you should throw in some dollar figures. like - who is paying for all this. how much. and why. talk is entirely about token generation bandwidth, exaflops and petaflops, data parallel vs tensor parallel vs pipeline parallel - do you honestly think cramer knows the difference between an ml pipeline and an oil pipeline ?

i am watching this conf with my kid - proper GenZ member - who got up after 5 mins and said man who is this comedian, his jokes are so bad, and left :(
All regulated industries receive liability breaks as "compensation" for being regulated. For example, many classes of product approved by the FDA are considered immune from liabilities related to dangers discovered in application[0], in particular, medical devices[1]. I agree that it is likely to distort the markets and incentivize regulatory capture.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_preemption
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riegel_v._Medtronic,_Inc.
> If you want to publish proof of an event, you should have some pixels on a screen along with some cryptographic signature from a device sensor that would necessitate atleast a big corporation like Nikon / Sony / etc. being "in on it" to fake.

At which point nobody could verify anything that happened with any existing camera, including all past events as of today and all future events captured with any existing camera.

Then someone will publish a way to extract the key from some new camera model, both allowing anyone to forge anything by extracting a key and using it to sign whatever they want, and calling into question everything actually taken with that camera model/manufacturer.

Meanwhile cheap cameras will continue to be made that don't even support RAW, and people will capture real events with them because they were in hand when the events unexpectedly happened. Which is the most important use case because footage taken by a staff photographer at a large media company with a professional camera can already be authenticated by a big corporation, specifically the large media company.
Websites are at least supposedly sandboxed so they are not as much of a risk as running native binaries. But this is getting worse and worse though as browsers expose more and more of their host operating system's functionality. The benefits of using a website instead of a native application are quickly disappearing, while the drawbacks have only been somewhat mitigated. We're getting to the point where browsers are worthy of the decades old criticism Emacs has received. They have eventually become an OS with many fine features - simply lacking a good web browser.
A possible source for the aiborne fentanyl story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisi...
Yes, of course cycling is most popular in the Netherlands because geography and climate are most ideal there. But the same is true about infrastructure. If it exists, any form of transportation becomes widely more popular. Just think of Oulu :)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231220-why-oulu-finland...
Insert basically anything here.

We’re destroying incentives at a rate of knots, oh well…
What you are describing is still option 3 (cookie banners). The only real option 1 would be for sites to give up on tracking users.

So yeah, you can never compel a site designer to stop doing a thing without compelling them to stop do that thing. The only middle ground is a middle ground.
But it doesn't look very realistic, tbh.
scheme 1: agents for copyright holders continuously scan for IP addresses who host copyrighted content and start legal actions.

scheme 2: criminal groups infect copyrighted content with malware to exploit downloaders of such content.
> 100 million barrels of oil equivalent per day

That's about 2 liters of oil (or 1.44 liters of gas & diesel) per person per day.

Not a lot by western standards. Absolutely enormous by some developing countries.
Intermittent fasting linked to higher risk of cardiovascular death
that helps, so this is really an alternative to pushing analysis attributes aronud a dataflow graph
> That which is put forward without evidence, can also be dismissed without requiring evidence.

Wake me when there's a study with a methodology. This is just a press release.
> most genres are more formulaic than people want to believe.

The biggest crime is copyrighting the best intro chord sequences in the 1960's, and since then everyone has to make slight variations or they would be called out for copying. We can't make good music today due to copyrights...
If this was true, humanity would have never survived.
Except you're not getting it to run first any more than the restaurant that opens with a "no blacks" sign got it to run first for whites. You're discriminating, excluding people based on things they have no control over because you couldn't get over your own self absorbed privilege not unlike operators of diners or busses or taxis in the US South 65 years ago.
30x is the type of number that when you see it in a generational improvement, you should ignore it as marketing fluff.
Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the 'most powerful chip' for AI
See also: gating table-stakes features behind "download our app". E.g., messaging on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Meta sets a date for killing off CrowdTangle
Some designs are resistant to one failure, reactor runaways; but the larger and more expensive problem is keeping radioactivated coolant and parts out of our waterways and waste/recycling streams.
They acquired Bright Cluster Manager a few years ago, who would be next on their list to acquire? It seems like they want to provide customers with the whole stack.
MacBook Pro M4 now in 'formal development' at Apple
What issues have you had with dart last you tried it? What was the last version you tried? Dart has improved greatly in the last few years. It's one of the better OOP GCed languages these days in my opinion.
I for one am sick of cute mascots being used as excuses and distraction from actual substance of conversations. Its a very reddit thing too. funny how that works.
How to disagree well: 7 of the best and worst ways to argue
I'm not the parent-level poster but I've stood-up a Mattermost instance a few times and it's really easy to get going and is good for a text-IM/DM channel/group service. The desktop app or web-based interface work quite well and the architecture is pretty sane, Javascript front-end, golang-based "backend", Postgres database.

But, there are some frustrating aspects.

LDAP is only available in the "enterprise" edition which is kind of crazy and there is no price-break for < 10 users. So for personal / non-commercial usage if you want LDAP you're placed into an enterprise bucket. I reached out to Mattermost and pointed this out and even said "Hey, what about offering a 10-user license for some reasonable fee?" No response.
Terrifying article about the impact of solar weather on our (electricity-dependent) society: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/what-a-major-s...
I don't understand myself how LVT wouldn't result in what you see in many "high value" city centers (where business rents are insanely high) - miles and miles of law offices and banks, and not much else.
> I would argue the Chinese are focusing more resources in Australia compared to the US.

It's in their interest to influence Australian politicians since that's where all the TLAs intercept Chinese communications from.
This is really cool.

Song: https://app.suno.ai/song/83680b6f-db37-44de-adf9-3f7fff6b79d...

Prompt:
A 90s hip-hop song with a male singer with a deep voice singing about how AI models are creating new songs after being trained on all the data of artists. Talks about AI models are stealing the show.

Lyrics:

[Verse]
Step back, my friend, 'cause the future's here
AI models spittin' rhymes, oh so clear (oh so clear)
Trained on data from all the greats
Now they're droppin' beats that dominate (dominate)

[Verse 2]
Don't need no ghostwriters or melody makers
These AI models are the true risk-takers (oh yeah)
Analyzin' every flow, every precise word
Stealing the show, that's just absurd (it's absurd)

[Chorus]
AI takin' over, breakin' the mold
Stolen styles, but they're icy cold (they're icy cold)
The game's been changed, no human control
The rise of the AI flow, takin' its toll (takin' its toll)
But does it actually benefit the customer?

Like is it one of those things the remove a 1 in a billion chance of cancer, and now have a product that wears out twice as fast leading to a doubling of sales?
I’m very sorry about your dad and how his death must have pained your family.

My dad also died from asbestos exposure leading to mesothelioma. His final months were a lot like what you described.
> It seems more related to people struggling and thus how much they're in their own world.

Yes, this is very well said and has been my experience as well. It's also been my experience that generally speaking we (the world and the US) are getting better and better at a11y. My cousin was in a wheel chair for decades before he passed away, and there were a lot of places we just flat could not go. It was a nightmare, but the worst enemy was ignorance, not selfishness.
The hacker news crowd is overwhelmingly in support of old.reddit. I mean look at the UI of this place. Obviously this crowd appreciates substance more than Web 3.0 ad trackers and GIF chat
"OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits over ChatGPT’s use of books, news articles, and other copyrighted material in its vast corpus of training data. Suno’s founders decline to reveal details of just what data they’re shoveling into their own model, other than the fact that its ability to generate convincing human vocals comes in part because it’s learning from recordings of speech, in addition to music."

Surely they own the audio they're using and haven't just dumped every song in existence
I fear that we're barrelling fast toward a future when nobody can trust anything at all anymore, label or not.
These guys are doing something sort of in that vein.. https://wolfsbane.ai/
I would believe the 500k number. Taxi badges are ridiculously priced. I think NYC’s was over 1.5m.

Keep in mind, they are able to lease the badge out, so you can have your cab running 24/7.
Most/all plastic for food use is BPA free at this point.
Looks like elaborate marketing. I think something like 95%+ of metal food containers are lined with plastic to prevent the metal from reacting/leeching into the food. Making some assumptions here but I suspect because the vast majority/all of the aluminum can supply chain is plastic lined that these are as well.
It also only takes one mistake to severely injure yourself and permanently reduce your quality of life, it's worth considering the value you put on that when deciding these things. I like DIYing as well, but sometimes the risk vs reward isn't worth some extra money. People who get injured doing DIY work often have a similar attitude as yours until they make a critical mistake taking on something they "understand" and haven't done before.
Because the dose makes the poison.

Low levels of asbestos exposure is statistically unlikely to harm you, and the concentrations from brake dust are relatively low. As long as a brake shop ventilates its work spaces it’s a negligible risk to workers.
It used to be worse. Lots of cars today use a coil-over-strut design that captures the spring. There's still a lot of energy, but it's much easier to manage safely, by the time the nut at the top runs out of threads there's generally little to no force left in the spring.

Way back (like... 30 years ago) when I was working on my Mustang, the spring was separate from the strut. You had to drop the control arm enough to unload it and remove it, and there wasn't anything to contain it. I always tied it with a chain or a seat belt, and tried to not be directly in front of it during the unloading process. I knew a kid who got hit in the chest by a spring popping out; he did not make it. Removing it or installing a new one were both quite dangerous for the careless.
tbh i could not tell the difference between this & generic technostep made by people. Sounds just as crappy to me
Indeed. An awful lot of time and money go into things that degrade the environment while supplying little, if any, net benefit to humanity. Water in cans in areas where tap water is fine, is one of the less bad examples.
Yes! And it supports sub-tasks!
reply to the parent then.
Damn, I thought I was doing good with a 3-digit Slashdot id.
I think a big issue currently is that the lyric generator often mixes in the description of the style.
They've been doing that with ivermectin in some parts of the world.
> 1/3 is also a special kind of procedure.

Important to note: When ggp asked for a recursive procedure to generate real numbers, they wanted that exactly same proceedure would generate all reals (not special procedure for each number)

If we have special procedure for each number, then procedure to generate 1/3 is just 1/3. …of course naively assuming notation of 1/3 is as valid as 0.33333…, and that base 10 is not the only possible base.
I rather pay for a dead person than be the dead person. Also, you might expect some professionalism from a person advertising themselves as capable of doing the job, so not sure how your liability assumption holds up.
Well, stock price is not a good short term indicator about Nvidia developments, nor any company for that matter. Nvidia is doing a very good job.

That being said, their stock is absolutely and hilariously overvalued.
That's crazy. Monorepo definitely makes more sense.

Though I always wonder - how do Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. deal with developing code near the root of their dependency tree? Utility libraries for example. Technically you're going to have every change you make there building all the code and running all the tests, which is obviously unworkable. What do they do?
If we assume that those are the three conditions under which a deny-list model is fine, then I think the US' inability to meet those conditions more or less disqualify it from it being a fine choice.
There was an episode of the German Krimi series Tatort yesterday that had a plot that centered around Havana Syndrome.
that's a deep voice?

Still, I am surprised by how professional this sounds -- beat drops, fade ins and fade outs...I can record music on GarageBand but I have no idea how to do any of that.

> AI takin' over, breakin' the mold
> The game's been changed, no human control

Oh no!!!
Nvidia Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing
Seems like there should be something better that can last longer and not kill you if you try to fix it.
ASI?
Considering that we can only listen to about 15 songs per hour, times 16 hours = 240 songs per day, those AI composers won't make that much money each. If there are 1000 of them I'd need 4 days of uninterrupted listening to listen to a song of each of them. 1 million composers? 4000 days, 11 years.

We'll be where we are at now: selection because of genre preferences, quality, fame, marketing.
Turning Points: A meeting with Enrico Fermi (2004)
Did you even read the article?

Why are we still using passive, reliable mechanisms to reduce the force needed to move heavy objects?
This can be really scary for women who are traveling.

You could be possibly sexually assaulted, trafficked, or other things.
The argument I'm making is one for increased choice in the technologies we have available to us as web developers, particularly when it comes to writing applications that aim to accommodate users with slower/more affordable devices.

In a lot of cases, shipping a wasm blob is not that bad. Depending on the language; compressed and optimized blobs are only a few kilobytes and can be "code-split" such that they are lazy loaded.

Wasm binaries also evaluate faster than JavaScript which could lead to better "web vital" metrics (like "time to first paint/interactive", though anyone can write a slow application in any language so that's not a given).

Syntactically, there is nothing missing from other programming languages that make them unsuited to working with DOM APIs.

The real blocker is waiting for wasm to gain access to DOM APIs thereby dropping the need for JavaScript glue code - once that constraint is lifted, I see no reason why it wouldn't be practical to use an alternative to JavaScript for web development.

JavaScript is practical and useful in _most_ web development cases because the runtime is built in, the ecosystem around it is quite mature and the use cases aren't that complex - however there are many cases that would benefit from more performant languages (think YouTube, Jira, VSCode, banking apps, etc).

When thinking about the "next billion" internet users (related to the topic of the article), we are going to see more users with affordable devices that feature many cores with lower clock speeds. In such contexts it is vital to efficiently leverage the available client device hardware resources - something that JavaScript isn't well suited to and something most of us don't experience (the privilege of having fast computing hardware).

Take multi-threading as an example. JavaScript's single threaded non-blocking nature is safe/ergonomic from a programming perspective and fantastic on devices that feature fast individual cores - however it falls over when clients have slower devices with more cores.

Ideally, we need _the choice_ to follow a more conventional multi-threaded model in cases where we care about performance (a UI thread + worker threads, like we see in native apps/desktop applications). The only initiative that has the potential to get us there is wasm.