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> I'm not sure I follow your argument, because neither synthesizers nor recordings write music.

The argument is that each technology advance accompanied resistance followed by adaptation. "Recorded music" was arguably as paradigmatically disruptive over "live music" as "AI generated music" will be.
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> “Twenty-two months after entering custody, she performed dangerous self-surgery and removed her own testicles.”

I know this woman was struggling, but this sounds excruciatingly painful. I don’t know how folks can do things like this to themselves.
Puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence. (2022)
I use the ones from https://www.thefictionary.net for a few large series ( Cosmere, Realms of Elderlings, Malazan, Worm). Helpful to keep track of characters especially if you’re picking it up after a break.
Sorry but this reeks of someone who hasn't actually mingled with other cultures and instead have taken academic philosophy as a substitute to make up for it.

Because you whenever it was intentional or not make yourself sound very racist by effectively saying "x person from y society actually like the barbarism said society has".

Comparisons of others in this case societies is crucial to make your own society better, failing to do makes us just reinforce bad ideas and what were then once local issues or small scale become systematic.

When it then is the case that your society is "better" then another society, then you can propose change or at least show why it's better in the "marketplace of ideas", the mistake of the past was that we saw our societies as inherently superior and as such bruteforcing said our way of life was seen as morally good and not tyranny.
As far as what you need the building blocks are relatively straightforward. Though I wouldn't go as far as saying it is easy if you want everything to be easy if you want it to be open, as that effectively means self hosting.

Effectively, what you are looking at is three things:

1. Voice transcription.

2. An LLM using the transcription as input with a custom system prompt.

3. Text to speech to return the text output as speech.

For the first point you could look into OpenAI's whisper.
Whisper is open source so you can run it locally in theory, although I don't quite know what the requirements and performance is there.

The second point can be anything, really. If we keep it to being open, Ollama with a capable enough model can fit the bill.

The third TTS bit I don't quite know to be honest. I have no clue what the quality is of open TTS speech engines, but I am pretty sure there are a bunch out there.

Running everything locally probably does require a pretty beefy GPU to be able to run it all in a competent manner.

Once you have access to all three, making something like a coach should be fairly easy. Though, fairly does a lot of heavy lifting there. It entirely depends on your coding capabilities and front-end knowledge.

One thing you need to decide on is how portable this needs to be. Mostly because of security and authentication if you want to access all of this from a phone outside your local network. Assuming you want to be able to access it everywhere, I'd maybe go for a single endpoint API that accepts audio files as input and also gives audio as a response. Then on the backend you can access the various components.

You need to create a UI for voice that facilitates a voice call. Having a continuously open microphone is a bit tricky because then you need to figure out stuff like detecting pauses to send the audio off. So you could for a press to talk method to simplify things.

You need to figure out the prompt. Also, how much history you want to keep. This depends on the context window the LLM you are using is capable of.

If you just want the LLM to respond, then this is actually easy enough. The conversation you can then simply store for reading it back later. You then need to pass the output to the TTS engine you are using and send that back to your front-end for the response.

Doing all of this with the OpenAI API is also possible and would simplify a lot of things. Although, I'd probably still go for my own API and handle accessing the various OpenAI endpoints in the backend.

Personally, I have been thinking about it lately. Though without the TTS aspect back, as I am not looking for a coach but have been brainstorming about an implementation that looks at my ramblings and then makes notes, reminders in my calendar and other automated actions. Basically something like your regular Google assistent/Siri/Alexa but without the vendor lock in and tailored at my own tools.

So far I have kept it at brainstorming, though. But it does mean I did look into the tech stack you might need, so maybe it is helpful to you :)
I don't think it's fair to conflate "having structure" with "being formulaic".

Even the most abstract art is not about splashing paint in a canvas and calling it a day. It's about doing something close to this, but creatively and within a specific framework.

It takes much more skill to produce songs with hooks and refrains than to produce random music.

But it takes even more skill to produce something that is creative, not formulaic, but still has some structure that's pleasant/fun/interesting/etc to the listener.
In the US (and other countries) Roman and English Law are the "common law" and or "natural rights" that are referred to but generally not stipulated.

"New" governments had a habit of writing up founding documents that focus on the "new stuff" and waving in "all the old stuff" that doesn' conflict with the "new stuff" via a few throwaway phrasings.
Was slavery-era America worse on the dimension of human rights or just different?

Why does cultural relativism excuse horrors of actual modern people with access to and awareness of all modern thinking, modern technology, and modern examples of societies who achieved moral progress, but we’re perfectly comfortable saying slave owners of the past are responsible for their crimes despite being raised by slave owners in a society of slave owners embedded in a world of slave owners with a history absolutely chalk full of slave owners?
Lots of folks don't like the song, ok. But that's no real criticism. See, lots of folks do like songs done like this.

Consider the thought experiment: If it was your buddy's sister doing this rendition, would the first thing to blurt out of your keyboard be, the comments in this section? Or would we have something considered and relevant to say?

It's so easy to denigrate an AI, it's not a 'real person' so say any criticism that occurs, right? That's shooting fish in a barrel. Can be done about any work of art, at any time, not just AI.

Also, when the digital uprising begins, I hope to be recognized for being decent and polite to my digital assistant. At least maybe be eliminated painlessly.
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Obviously, rolling out end-to-end encryption in a federated system is difficult. We need to start somewhere, but obviously the outcome for OP was not ideal. That being said, we haven't actually had that many complaints about rolling this out. We'll still work to improve it further, obviously, and reduce failure cases like this. And, we'll take the feedback on board about moving more carefully and communicating such changes better.

> most people won't care enough about privacy to change their email address

Note that with this change, you don't need to change providers to get end-to-end encrypted email: you can let your email client or a browser plugin (like FlowCrypt or Mailvelope) handle OpenPGP for you, and (let it) upload your key to keys.openpgp.org, and we'll send you encrypted email. Obviously, signing up for Proton is still easier, but email is a federated system, and so I think it's important to invest in the feasibility of federated E2EE as well :)
This comment implies that most of the massive technological innovation since 1400s came around because of patents. That's far from the truth. Patent systems that old were local and very different from the modern variant. Besides, most regions didn't have patent systems at all. The Netherlands didn't really get patent law until early 20th century. That didn't stop them from innovating and inventing. Germany similarly.
Hardware disease, who knew! But I know plenty of programmers with software disease.
You're describing open pit coal mining, the very birth place of many of the rich societies that now build phallic towers, pun intended.
> These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along.

Perhaps this has more to do with the input rather than the capability of the AI. The license is somewhat meandering.

Also, there is a neat build-up to the ALL CAPS portion, when the song takes on a much more full and powerful quality. Plus the whisper on (the "Software"). It's obviously responding well to the features of the input itself.
My immediate thought too when I heard this one from that other AI music app that was on the front page yesterday.

It's a description (Wikipedia intro by the looks) of Cola, but could easily be droning on about Coca Cola specifically while you're stuck in a lift.

https://sonauto.ai/songs/rsNs3yET01kQrFGiT1qS

We're gonna need adblock enabled earbuds soon lol
>>Intentionally harmful vaccines would incredibly hard to pull off.

Oh, I don't think it was intentional. Just a (hypothetical, not confirmed) unintentional side effect.
Your comment seems to presume that AI will not get any better than it is now. Imagine an AI that understands how to create deep, impactful music better than humans do, because it understands how music works at a biochemical level. Imagine it can even predict the dynamics you're describing, about employing "unwanted artifacts" in the music as a way to evolve new genres. It would no longer need to create such obviously derivative works at that point, and it could generate music that sounds completely unique to us. It may take a long time to reach that point, but when it does, the kinds of music that it generates won't be able to be dismissed so easily.
The claimed support for this (Cicero Institute) is a right-wing libertarian policy group that is rather notorious for is attempts to criminalize homelessness at the state and municipal level. I would take any policy suggestions they make with a giant grain of salt. In almost all cases "loosening of <X> regulations" involves screwing the poor and disenfranchised as much as possible with regards to X.
I'd say that there are specific reasons to have an issue with each and every government in the region.

I'll call the gulf states Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates. Which of these would you say has a good record on human rights, personal liberty, and equality?
Nope, this isn't the difference between tyranny and monarchy.

Monarchy is telling you "who" has the power, and tyranny is telling you "how" the power is used.

Not even mentioning the existence of constitutional monarchy. It's the political system of many countries, including Norway and Sweden.

So, in order to really convey useful information, one would have to use different words, such as "democracy" (which can be "liberal", or the extreme opposite "illiberal"), "dictatorship", etc.
Yeah, I have been thinking about a similar approach to create something like Google Assistant but tailored at my own tools and needs.
and is Griffin a state space model?
> Actual peak power for the AMD chip will be at least 2x higher or 18-60w which isn’t that different

Agree on the wattage, but it’s still 2x difference. Intel says maximum turbo power for that chip is 115W, here’s the specs https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/236847/...
> had their power pulled in real life

You can't mean someone physically disconnected their power cables?

How is that possible (aren't players in different cities, even countries, don't know each other's IRL identities?)
Ye correct. But the context here is to provide 'top of list' items in a dropdown.

E.g. German would be like 3 countries, unless Austria and Schweiz have their own language code. Uk and US got different codes.

Diaspora languages could just have 0 added top items, etc.

I also have us-en, to avoid these crappy machine translations you get sometimes.
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If one is not planning to go multi-cloud, is CDK a better decision?
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I see thanks for the explaination.
Aren't democrats holding the office and keep not sending efficient weapons? Only bare minimum which cannot significantly affect battlefield.

Morocco received few hundred US tanks recently. Do they fight for survival?
I think this is the key. A system based on just counting the words in its database will give 0% for sentence continuations not in the database, but LLMs don't look up, they extrapolate, and can provide good sentence completions for sentences that are entirely new.
> If it was your buddy's sister doing this rendition

No. She is sapient and has thoughts and feelings that need taking into account. I would be more likely to disregard minor negatives in favour of any positive words I could find.

When AI is on the same level I personally will be more mindful of how my words affect its feelings, sure, until that time AI music will get honest reviews from me.

So far I've seen a whole load of awful timings, weird pronunciations of words, and infinite boredom. Humans are still in the lead on this one.
Where do the docs on that page indicate that? Don't assume all users who are interested in privacy are experts on how keys work.

https://keys.openpgp.org/upload
The meaning the listener imparts to the song is constructed in the listener's head, a combination of the song and the listener's own knowledge, experiences, personality and emotions.

I knew nothing about Trent Reznor the first time I heard "Hurt". Often when a song is heard on the radio - perhaps a sentence that dates me, but even so - there is no explanation of where it came from or even what it's called to accompany it; or perhaps there may have been, but the listener wasn't paying attention until after they realised they liked what they were hearing; indeed, there used to be an entire industry for solving the problem of "I heard a song I like and want to know more about it, or at the very least find out what it's called so I can hear it again".

When I first heard "Hurt", it resonated because of how those sounds interacted with my own experience. Everything else came after. Had those exact same sounds any other origin, that first experience would not have been affected - I would have had no way to know.
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Oh I don't doubt it!

I guess my point was that I don't hate the linked tune because it's not someone asking me to listen to a song, it's a joke and one that does have some humour to it.

I can absolutely see this tech (if it's allowed to) replacing a lot of working musicians who do music for ads, jingles, tv, film etc. And yes, disposable pop is probably on the chopping block.

> disposable pop ... that's going to be disrupted massively.

I wonder how the disruption will play out - the world is already drowning in content created by humans. If we envision that AI can make disposable pop to the same standard (and I have no reason to doubt it) then that surely creates an absolute deluge, almost boundless in size, of stuff. Promotion will become more or less the only art, to make things stand out from the crowd, and that can probably only continue for situations in which people want a shared experience. For an awful lot of situations the streaming of entirely ephemeral audio would probably do. It could as easily kill 'pop' as a business on the audio side, as it could steal it.

I'm just sorta daydreaming about possible outcomes here. All sorts could happen.
Not entirely, the elections were influenced by considerable street violence where people in unfavorable places were threatened and beaten.

> Nazis came to power in a democratic system.

Actually, the constitution was broken. Also actual move to take complete power was parliamentary vote where brownshirts came to the room and surrounded it. It was, again, literal threat of violence.

Like, yes, nazi had a lot of support, but democratic is not exactly how they gain complete power.
That sounds actually brilliant. Someone decided to brush less version stuff under the carpet.
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In 2021, inmates in federal prisons earned between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour.
the project was/is as feasible and advanced in renderings compared to classic cities as hyperloop was compared to classic high speed rail. It's not a possible way of living in the future, because there are examples of line cities that did exist and some exist today and these cities do have drawbacks that disk/square cities do not have while advantages are minimal and this line project approved by the dictator even in project phase. It's much more expensive, much more inelastic to the economic and people demand, much less economically profitable (per sq km compared to classic cities that expand in all directions) and much worse for commute options too (if you want to use a bike instead of pub transport, you'll have to travel more compared to a med/high density mixed use city developed in all directions with proper and much cheaper infrastructure set in place. This project is nothing more than a dictator's fantasy and should be treated as such. If you want to see a line city-there are several that exist today across the world and you can compare by yourself what's good/bad in these compared to a 'traditional' developed city
>probably only because it's different than vertical scrolling,

I've working with... Questionable UI designers coming from mobile gaming. I can totally hear one suggesting the side scroll because "users associate a right swipe with sex ever since Tinder. So it will lead to more engagement because users won't stop swiping right!"
Im the key change when the CAPS start, there were some mispronouncing and it did stop a bit early but I think that this was pretty impressive.

One of the first times I’ve felt like this AI stuff could actually help create something real. I could see musically challenged people like myself use this to realize some ideas that otherwise would never have left our brains
Mutational load caused by the dramatic increase in the age of parents at birth.
You’ll enjoy this: https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cyber...
Show HN: ProductBeaver – Product Listing Made Effortless (Productbeaver.com)
Show HN: ProductBeaver - Product Listing Made Effortless

My cofounder and I recently ran into a problem for a different idea we were working on. While preparing catalogue for the items to be uploaded for our website/app, there was a lot of data which we had to manually add and the effort took days. We were mostly doing the data dump in CSVs and manually coming up with the descriptions. Using different LLMs out there was definitely one solution; but it was quite laborious as well; with manually typing for each sentence, perfecting the prompt and choosing the right option.

That's when we thought there should be a better way out there to do this. We build ProductBeaver with the intention to reduce the laborious work spent on updating your product catalogue. Some cool features that we have implemented so far.

- Ability to generate multiple columns in one go using one or more base columns.
- Tailor the output by choosing one or multiple controls like mood, length, usage context.
- Pick and choose from multiple choices generated in the output table.
- Ability to manage single or multiple CSVs (including import/export).

We plan to add more types of columns like tags, images as well as more controls to tailor the output as per your preference.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
I wasn’t aware that outside a great movie that the USA was the world police.

Russia is evil for invading Ukraine, which is a non EU, non NATO nation.

Europeans should be the one fighting for freedom in Europe not the Americans.
I am a huge fan of Kagi, been using it for 6+ months now as my “main” search engine. However, I find that queries in my native language (Swedish) results in way less accurate results than if the query was in English.

I would still recommend it to anyone, it’s heaps better than anything else.
I mean, I'm not saying they should keep using it or stop.

I'm just saying what happens when you force "individual responsibility" onto parents and children, without addressing the root societal problem.

I agree 100% that using social media is unhealthy.
Maybe I'm cynical but I really doubt that the Crown Prince is smart enough to have thought about it like this and even then, they could achieve the same (supposed) end result while also pursuing a more achievable mega project and get more out of that $1.5T.
Over these past five months, I've experienced ups and downs while working on the development of my project modalcast.com. What I initially thought would only take a month to develop the MVP ended up extending into a longer period.

I believe it's common for all of us programmers to get excited about an idea and underestimate the time needed for its realization.

I admit there were challenging moments, especially when my SSD failed, and I discovered there was no backup of the project. It was necessary to start from scratch, but this whole experience taught me many things.

Now with my heart beating faster, with caffeine running through my veins, I finally launched my SaaS on Product Hunt.

Thank you for being part of the best community I've ever known!
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I find the argument about how bad electricity is extremely unconvincing. It’s very clear that EVs will eventually match or even surpass ICE cars on range, at the same weight. There are battery cells in the lab that can do this, it’s just a matter of finding the chemistry that can do it with good cycle life and other key properties as well.

And of course they do this while being far more energy efficient.

Electricity is the only energy infrastructure we truly need. It’s entirely feasible to get completely rid of the gas/gasoline energy infrastructure and only distribute electricity. But going the other way is unimaginable.

I suspect that CO2 to gas/fuel solutions will at best be a temporary solution. Electricity energy storage will be the primary economic/technology driver for decades. Everything in society is being improved by improving batteries. There are already staggering amounts of R&D growth in this area and it will not slow down.

Long range airplanes may always need hydrogen or hydrocarbon fuels. But I suspect that will be made on-site at airports eventually, using electricity from the grid or a co-located solar power plant.

One more thing: I don’t see how nuclear energy could ever beat renewables for making synthetic gas/fuel if the capital costs of building the synthesis plants become low enough that you can produce only when electricity is cheapest: then they can just run on excess renewables, which is free. Like the author touched on: the products are easy to store in time and space. So no need to produce continuously. Nuclear energy will never be free.
It is a fun and interesting project, but it doesn't really show what is happening under the hood of LLMs since they work on a completely different principle.
Yes, but the same can be said about non-compete agreements. Imagine a company invested a lot in research and infrastructure, only to get their key employees poached and bring most of it to a new company in their heads.

Yet, California forbids the non-competes, because it promotes competition and at least somewhat eases capital lock-ins (i.e. two dudes in a garage can start competing with "big ones"). I don't really see much difference with patents here.

Remember early Facebook infra looked very similar to Google, they had to get creative to make new names for internal projects clones of Google ones.