skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait yeah that sounds like the solution. The actual behavior of companies is easy to regulate and requires no great firewall. Just stop them from doing the most addictive stuff and it’ll almost certainly help a ton of people.
I don’t really understand the point of your comment. Uservoice is a 3rd party SaaS. You can use email/password login there. What do you expect and why it is sad?
Related shenanigans: KPMG misused confidential Australian government information to help big multinational companies avoid paying more tax (2023)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/pwc-pricewaterhouseco...
meh, Suno v3 still has better quality for me personally
Looks cool but raises a bunch of questions :-). Maybe you could add these to your FAQ, I imagine picky users like me may want the answers to at least some of these:

"up to 90% file size reduction"

What's an example of an input video or image that would see its size reduced by 90% without loosing quality? Also, how do you come up with this percentage? I imagine median/average size reduction must be way lower than 90% in real life. What if anything happens if size reduction fails?

The app doesn't seem to allow selection of codec (from the video I imagine "format" refers to the container, like say, mp4). Do you always encode using the same codec? Which one? Which ffmpeg settings do you use to ensure good compression? Does the app generate a log of the ffmpeg command used?

Can you trim videos without re-encoding them? ("lossless cut")
A single incident doesn't really demonstrate that it's "open to exploits"; it just demonstrates that it's possible, but no system is 100% foolproof so that's not really meaningful.

I can only recall two incidents: the other being the JS event-stream cryptothing and that was five years ago. Perhaps there are others I'm not aware of, but by and large, it seems very rare that projects that see real-world usage get compromised.

(and don't give me any of that "but we don't know how often it happens!"-bollocks – you can always say that about almost anything; go find evidence).
Prices are not changing, and if you have a current subscription to Standard Notes, it will continue to be honored.
Dragging the top-left corner works, for some reason. Really bizarre UI issue.
> a central authority behind this.

Yeah, a central authority could potentially be beneficial if/while it's run by benevolent people.

But if it gets taken over by (say) political activism types, or just MBA types determined to treat it like a profit center, then it's going to turn to crap right about then. :(
AlmaLinux, before that CentOS. The least annoying linux I've found. Forced to choose something else, would probably go with debian.
There are enough dwellings in any city to make them interchangeable.
Only in the sense of "has an attribute others we tried before didn't have". Not "uniquely possesses that attribute".
It would make an interesting case study to examine him neuropsychologically. I am not willing to believe such claims at face value, but there are people with interesting physiological capabilities, like the woman who can smell cancer. Studying someone like him, if he’s telling the truth, would probably help researchers understand something fundamental about long term memory formation and maintenance.
Notes on Git's Error Messages
~90% of the comments here are "motivated anecdotes" and are quite valuable. Perhaps this is not the dis you think it is.
> Still I love this, ultimately I think it'll be a tool musicians use vs something for creating stand alone art

Spotify is getting flooded with AI generated music. It is absolutely something people will use to just generate the music they want to hear.

Ultimately though, what would be the point of spotify? Anybody will be able to generate 24/7 of songs based on their mood or a few keywords.

It will radically change the music landscape and how people "consume" music.
> The macro picture is still supply and demand and we have to intervene there if we want housing to be more affordable in the places people want to live. legalizing a variety of housing is very much a step that your local city council can take.

We already did this ages ago -- most cities have already made all the changes you are requesting, years or even a decade ago. Your talking points are like 10 years behind the times, housing is already legal in 99% of the US right now. (basically everywhere that isn't SF / Bay Area). And you can see brand new 5+1s all over every city, as proof of it. (so much so, that press even writes about it - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri... )

Yes, neighbors complain and complain, and it's easy to focus on them, cause they're loud and annoying. But they don't win -- they complain, and then the investors win anyway, and still get to build almost anything they propose. (I'm in the Midwest, and I can count on one hand the number of times an investor lost a proposal -- they get to develop anything they want 99%+ of the time)

> People are so desperate for some bogeyman to blame. Institutional investors! RealPage! Short Term Rentals!

Well, because those are actual issues, and "NIMBYism" isn't. "NIMBYism" is maybe 2% of the overall housing problem, while private equity, investors, illegal hotels ("Short Term Rentals"), pricing collusion ("RealPage"), and such are, collectively, probably ~50%+ of the problem.

There's dozens of problems at play with crazy-high housing prices. "NIMBYism" doesn't even rank among the top ten of them.
What is actually missing from discussions about pricing is this:

"What is a reasonable balance of profit for providing a service and benefit to those being served?"

Without tools like RealPage, a landlord will naturally set a price that results in enough profit to make it worth their time, effort, stress, etc.

Economies of scale can make a big difference here, as some of the overhead can be managed more efficiently by having a bigger business (more properties).

But when something like this tool, or just old-fashioned price collusion, enters the equation, inevitably the profits go up unnaturally. It is no longer a free market where every actor will work in their own best interest, but rather a gang of actors is able to extract more from others. This is also exacerbated by the gang not being dependent anymore on the people it serves (it's customers) for other services. In the past, you as a business owner would think twice about grossly overcharging your customers because some of those customers provided their own services which you dependend upon. But now, you can buy your good from cheaper foreign markets, and you can buy your labor from imported artificially-low-paid workers. You no longer have to care what your customers think about you, because you'll never need them.

At the end of the day, what is the point of a human's existence? Is it to make as much money as possible, irrespective of the service being provided or the exaggerated cost to the customers? Or is it to provide a needed service to others such that everyone can be reasonably happy?

Clearly we have been trending toward the former for some time now, as evidenced by the rapid rate of increase of human productivity rewards going to a very small percentage of the population (0.1%) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLTP1246 .

This trend is not sustainable, because at some point the people will revolt. Maybe we'll all be dead before then from other issues we've caused, but given enough time on this path there will be a complete collapse of the current system.
Exactly. As of now, Suno can be used as template but you still need to go to DAW and make it from scratch. So... individual tracks for each instrument/vocals that can be exported and brought into DAW is what is needed. For me anyway.
The one glider path over the LAX area is interesting.

What was going on there?
The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism
You can read the whole article here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/markoff-lazar-case-b...
Congrats on the launch! I had a similar issue as the comment above. I put in the prompt "Celtic symphonic rock" (which seems to work on Suno.ai) and some lyrics. The output ended up being just readings of the lyrics without any music, except some artifact-level whispering of music when the voice was silent. Would definitely love to see some demos of what it can produce!
They are not comparably astonishingly fast at retrieving that data.
I've taken to just watching pure BJJ for that reason. Much more intricate, still violent, but, because there's no striking you don't see that many head injuries.
I'm not a Jackson fanatic, but everything Musk is doing could have (and very likely would have) been done by someone else in a relatively close timeframe. I won't claim Jackson couldn't have had a similar counterpart on an alternate timeline or there won't be more like him, but there are remarkably few artists and performers who are so prolific and talented to such a degree that they noticeably shift the direction of popular culture for decades. If Musk went away today, frankly I don't think many people would think of him within 5 years or so.
Hey, maybe I want to learn two dozen different slightly incompatible UI paradigms! If I don't have constant impedance mismatches I might get lazy and be able to operate my computer with continuous partial attention and actually focus on the task at hand! Shit, just imagine the horror if two different applications could grab keyboard focus correctly without clicking some input field. My fingers might never leave the keyboard!
I cant tell, will this let me upload an instrumental track and change the genre/instrument makeup? When I tried, I might've overwritten the prompt.
A cursory search indicates that the giant marshmallow looking haybales that modern farming produces are formed by a machine which you tow behind a tractor. I'm just a city gal, but how much of a workout is that, really?

Edit: also, why are we speculating on stereotypes and not consulting actual data collected on exactly this question? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7182355/

It seems that people living in rural areas are, on average, more sedentary than their urban counterparts, despite the overwhelmingly popular stereotype that rural folk are svelte and outdoorsy.
So, replace the floppies with a high reliability flash device that emulates a floppy drive, should have happened years ago.
Yes! Especially because that’s not the only factor in sustainability.
The big issue is putting those screens in isn't just a simple task, you need the entire support and switching network to be able to track individual trains which is a relatively new thing in terms of the age of many of the subway swtiching and train tacking (where those even exist) systems in the US.
> "The tests... cover topics such as U.S. audit standards, professional ethics and independence..."

Ethics, you say?

> "...involved hundreds of professionals, including partners and senior leaders such as the now former head of assurance..."

When the scale of these things is so large in a single firm, and only comes to light after 2(!) whistleblowers, it is hard to imagine that it is an isolated incident in the industry.
The bot plague is atrocious. Like, there are tons of "keyword watcher" bots... write "onlyfans" and you'll get ~5-10 spambots in under half a minute, and for stuff involving popular politicians or political events (anything Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Covid) you'll get Russian fake newspaper clones. On top of that come the "human bots" - write the name of infamous German youtuber "Drachenlord" and you'll get that vile hater bunch and it's just the same.
The trouble with colluding is that if everyone agrees to set the price at $300, another seller can undercut them with a price of $290 and take their business away.

Or one of the members of the cartel can agree to sell at $300, and then offer a kickback under the table to get the business, or offer some other cash equivalent incentive.

Cartels only work if the government is used to make it illegal to cheat on the cartel.
Yes, I did go to high school in the US.

I didn't really care what people thought of me and my stuff then and so I guess I still don't now.

I guess it's not so much that I don't understand why what you are describing would be addictive and compelling if one cared about those things like being popular.

It's more of, I don't understand why so many people care so much about being popular haha. I guess I am really that abnormal and just have to accept that I will never understand it.

I guess the best I can do is to think of things that I do like and do desire and do care about, and imagine replacing them with the concepts of wanting to be popular or wanting to show off.

Or like thinking of the things that make me happy, and imagining instead that if the things on social media were what made me happy. But does social media really make people happy?

One of the things that makes me happy for instance is hiking and backpacking. Now I certainly understand that there are plenty of people who have no interest in that and if I had to explain to them why I like it so much, it would probably be hard to get them to truly understand why from my perspective.

I mean what really determines our individual interests? I guess I am just always surprised that so many people find social media interesting.

Watching sports is another one. I like playing sports, but I don't understand why so many people find sports so interesting to watch.
That’s a vanity metric. What matters is the actual environmental impact.
Really? All real estate is worth the exact same? That's news to me.
> > I’ll be okay raising the social outcast if the society is this damaged.

> You do that.

You don't hear really about Amish kids killing themselves. Maybe there's something there.
That's correct, and I definitely get that tablets would be good for artists.

Although I also know several artists, including a full-time professional, who don't use tablets to make their art. Unless you count drawing pads which attach to PC as "tablets", I guess.
Had a similar bug in a production system about 10 years ago. Indexes got corrupted after some length of time. Only in production, couldn't replicate. A distributed system as well.

We (mainly a collegue of mine) eventually traced it down to a smaller part of the code until we noticed a subtle bug.

Multi reader + multi writer and a atomic operation that miscounted the number of readers.

Took us a couple of weeks to track down if I remember right.

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-4777
Every phone has a jack you can plug headphones into. Just sometimes it isn’t a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Be careful with trigram indexes. At least in the postgres 10 era they caused severe index bloat for frequently updated tables.
I'd be curious to see where these 14 million vacant units are located. It's quite likely that the majority of them would be located in places where people do not want to live.
"Statins are still a common debate"

Even among some doctors, researchers, and former users there is debate. Not debate about their effectiveness in general, but about which situations should warrant them. There are several common side effects that can significantly impact quality of life.

It's understandable that some people are skeptical of statins based on the history of pharma and their current proposals. For example, I heard a year or two ago that they were looking into recommending statins for everyone over 70. The cholesterol level for when statins are recommended dropped about 50-100 points just a few years ago too.

"The lifestyle differences between what I see in the city and what I see in their rural locations are stark."

Are you comparing neighborhoods of similar socioeconomic characteristics? I've seen plenty of your types of example in urban and rural areas. The big difference is money. The more well-off people in either location tend to be more conscience - diet, exercise, PPE use - than the poorer people.

Edit: why disagree?
> there aren't enough boxing fans in the US to fill a single NFL stadium, much less 16 a week.

Do you have any proof for this at all? The most anticipated boxing matches usually get over a million pay-per-view buys, not including the tickets sold for the actual arenas.
Do you somehow remineralize the water? I thought drinking distilled water long term is bad for you?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Drinking_dis...
Wow, evolution keeps throwing surprises.

>The large assemblies this protein can build are more clearly an evolutionary accident: as beautifully regular and complex as higher-order Sierpiński triangles are, they only appear at non-physiological concentrations and their size would be difficult to fit into the cytoplasm of S. elongatus. Even if the 18mer fulfils a useful function, the ability of the protein to make larger assemblies is almost certainly an accidental by-product of the unusual symmetry it happened to have evolved.
This guy’s an economist, right? I get that it doesn’t mean he’s only allowed to have opinions about economics, but I feel like it would have added a lot more substance.

So the US is underprepared for a hypothetical war with China, and arguably is underprepared for the conflicts it’s currently in. Why is that? We spend vastly more than anyone else on defense, but just one of China’s shipyards is vastly more productive than our entire shipbuilding capacity. Why is that? It seems like we can’t spend our way out of the problems he brings up. Is there something about our political economy that isn’t working?

edit: spelling
> judges consistently allow about two more head strikes than necessary

I don't agree that consistently is the right word. I've certainly seen more extra hits than necessary, but good refs step in fast and with authority. Perhaps you watched lower rank fights with less experienced refs?
Upload an instrumental track, select it, then click "Use as Rhythm Control." Once you do that, you can give the model any new prompt and it should use the same rhythm (you may need to adjust the control strength depending on genre.)

Genre changes for melodies/etc are coming once we finish variations (partial renoising like SDEdit basically).
If you get into a good gym, BJJ is among the best, because once you've learned some things, you'll be rolling with guys who are way, way better than you, so they'll know how not to hurt you.

The injuries in BJJ come from newbies rolling with newbies, and completion, stay away from those things, don't be afraid to tap early, and you'll be fine.
There are millions of owners. Do you really believe they'll all stick to the cartel price?
Well that title didn't take long to go entirely invalid as this isn't a thing anymore.

Reasonable to doubt if this ever was thing as this seemed to only exist on iOS and due to the direction this went it didn't really do anything. Probably different if it had gone x -> twitter
If that’s the biggest fine on record, not surprising that they keep breaking rules and trying to cover it up. KPMG cleared $35B last year, this is barely a slap on the wrist.
Having to force all your requests through a single IP and maintain some weird crypto wallet is easier than grabbing an OAuth library?
thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look into that.
Fastmail has been about the same for me with speed of response. I don't have to reach out to them often, but when I do it's always quick.

They also don't have a limit on domains. I haven't seen any price gated functionality or any limits. I don't have 12 domains, but I do have a handful and it all works quite seamlessly.

I have been with Fastmail for probably a decade or more now. Worth it.
I'm vegan, and I sometimes record my food intake in a nutrition tracking app as a sanity check.
With "sometimes" I mean very rarely, about two days this year, on a weekend when I feel like it.

Reaching the Protein RDA is very easy for me. The RDA for me is 48g per day, but I usually eat >60g. Am I correct in assuming that you have a way higher protein target than that? That is, at least, what your comments seem to imply.

I get about 30g from my breakfast and dinner, where I usually eat cereal/oatmeal with some soy/oatmilk. That stuff is dirt cheap.

Getting 20g and more for lunch is super easy. Here are some examples I recorded in the past:

30g: Ragou (carrots, kidney beans, tomatoes,...) with noodles

35g: crumbled tofu and lentils (as vegan "minced meat"), in wrap with salad

43g: pasta with tomato sauce and a store-bought vegan schnitzel (I don't usually buy those meat substitutes, but I got that one as a gift)

25g: smoked tofu, rice, canned peas with carrots

20g: from a chickpea/potato soup

Edit: BTW, I also tracked the essential amino acids, and I get easily 150 to 300% of the RDA.
I get all of them to >80% of RDA from breakfast and dinner alone, the average is 130% of the RDA per essential amino acids.

Oh, and if you are wondering I had an average of 2100 kcal per day.
The page has extremely poor performance. Simply scrolling or moving the mouse cursor around loads Ryzen 7900 to 30% (it's a 12-core CPU!) Everything stutters.
thank you for sharing your feedback
Which corporation and which profit motive gave us Linux?
Feel free to correct and clarify those statements.
Thanks for the correction on that. In the UK cold and damp go together, and I’d always assumed you can’t dry clothes because of the cold.
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This sounds like a solution that is not based upon free market ethos. Much more detail would be needed to evaluate things. Who evaluates which and by how much each developer is compensated?
Adobe DRM on linux recently got a lot better: https://superuser.com/a/1775619

Copied for posterity:

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It's now possible to do this 100% within Linux, without running any emulators or Windows software, even though Adobe don't care about Linux support.

Knock is no longer maintained, however apparently it was just a wrapper around libgourou which is still maintained.

Installing libgourou (on Arch Linux it can be found in the AUR) allows you to download the ACSM file to a PDF or ePub:

# Use your username and password from https://account.adobe.com
# This registers your device so only needs to be done once.
adept_activate -u user -p pass

# Download the ACSM file
acsmdownloader -f myfile.acsm

The downloaded file requires a password to open it, but if you need to open it in a normal viewing application, you can also remove the password:

adept_remove file.pdf

This process allows Linux users to access the same materials as their Windows and Mac friends, even without support from Adobe.

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> Bill Gates is a piece of shit trying to buy his way into heaven.

On the one hand, he fucked over some tech bros. On the other, he's using the money he made off that to cure malaria. What a garbage human being.
>I'm not sure why you think this just because they don't support Linux yet

He doesn't think it just because of that, this is just an example. That they had spread too thin with different products is a fact.

I got interested in them for mail, and I could undertand them having a few more things, but the constant expansion worries me too. Even worse if they amass a portfolio just to look nice to get sold and folded into some monstrocity like Google.

>They have a few core key products such as Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN and Pass

Even those, do these sound as "few core key products"? Those are already a lot for a company like that (as you said, " they are a small team"). Especially when they keep adding other stuff too, like Notes now.
I've seen it used frequently in the context of data pipelines and stream-processing applications, which is even more applicable to the subject.
Glad to hear your partner is better. My wife dealt with a serious brain injury in her early 20s (she has since fully recovered) and it’s always a concern of mine if she were to be hit in the head again.