skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5: Uploading - Users can upload audio material, which naturally
represents a source of panic among big publishers because they
fear people can upload part of a hit (currently max length is 2
minutes) and use it to clone big name artists, which 1: can be
done in other ways, and 2: is far from being the most fun way
to play with the feature, and could be a source of legal problems
although, I repeat myself, there are multiple ways to do that,
both inside and outside of Suno.
Here's how I used it: any of you recall of that C64 game called
Commando with that really catchy soundtrack by that genius called
Rob Hubbard? Well, I spent decades waiting for the day I could
play it in real life, but never could with my old bands, so I
grabbed the game audio, edited it to fit the most relevant
parts into 2 minutes, and turned it into a disco-funky song with
slap bass et al plus AI generated lyrics celebrating the old
times playing 8 bit videogames. Yep, it works on chiptunes too,
and it is damn fun.

6: User support - next to none. They reply to all mails and
bug reports, but as you can easily guess it's all AI generated
and contains lots of boilerplate text; however it seems there
is something that takes notes about bugs, so it might be
still worth reporting them. However I asked them a couple times
about song moderation with a very specific question about
potential trolling, and ther mail AI kept replying about
writing PG-13 lyrics while the problem was completely different.
Specifically, I asked if I publish a song with political tone,
I mean, nothing inciting violence, offending or anything like
that, but of course strongly biased, what would happen if a group
of trolls would report the song as inappropriate just because they
don't share the same ideas and want me silenced?
They kept replying about a moderation team, an I replied back that
in case the team is an algorithm, then it could be easily gamed,
like a bunch of flat earthers could silence a scientist just
because of mere numbers.
Still didn't receive any meaningful reply on the subject, so
I'll keep my profile private for now, possibly sharing my
song elsewhere. Better be sure before risking to lose everything
Google/Youtube-style.

I'm sure I forgot something I'll recall later; in that eventuality
I'll add that on this post. What are your experiences with Suno or
other AI music generation services? So far it seems Udio offers
much better sound quality, however it's still limited to 2 minutes
(I'm aware of concatenating pieces, but it's not ideal, not even
on Suno), but they progress at such speed that everything could
change from day to day.
So, the reasonable interpretation is that people at HSY were possessed by demons? Knowledge like that could streamline the court system

/s, if unclear
A New Kind of Mitochondria
I have the same issue today when I fix old tube radios. Once side of the mains is connected to chassis -- and there are no polarized plugs. I use an isolation transformer, otherwise if I try to use a scope, I'd blow it out immediately--50% of the time.
Historically the IETF has been reluctant to get involved with Identity (and hence authentication) for various reasons. There are a few standards bodies in this area and they all have their strengths and weaknesses (the presentation by Heather Flanagan someone linked to elsewhere in the thread gives a good introduction).

Even some RFCs are basically available as ISO standards and vice versa, e.g. for time/date formats you almost never need to buy ISO8601 and can just read RFC3339 (which is technically a 'profile' of ISO8601).
Looks at polar bear. Looks at beaver. Continues scratching head.
The author has been completely obsessed with crypto for years now and called its imminent death many times. Yet here we are, with Bitcoin hitting an all-time high of $88,000.

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/1523402857562533889

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/1640300710351740928

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/1650702465635962880

https://x.com/smdiehl/status/1723201576876015686
I'm American but lived in Toronto from 2022 until a couple months ago.

I was astounded by the amount of online gambling ads just literally pasted everywhere in Toronto. When I got YouTube ads, a huge percentage was for these. They were pasted over the whole body of streetcars and in transit stations throughout the city.

I don't know much about the current status in the U.S., but Ontario at least seems to be completely infected by gambling ads. They must be making insane amounts of money off exploiting people's gambling addictions, as well as creating new addictions daily.
Yeah, but Cofnas provides counterarguments to this. Young people are much more woke than older people, who are still often in positions of power. As the generations shift, ideologies that are more prevalent among the young take hold. Moreover,

> The argument that we are “passed peak woke,” which recently got a boost from articles in the Economist and the New York Times, misinterprets the consolidation of the woke victory as a decline in the ideology’s power (like Crusaders buying fewer swords in the year 1100).

He goes more into detail in the article.
Is the Demon Drink Over-Demonised?
I agree this is true, but I think it ignores the way commentary went before sports gambling - it was rambling anecdotes, random stats and lots of repetition (and that was the good commentators). Every once in a while you'd get a really entertaining color commentator (I personally love to listen to Jeff van Gundy rant about anything) or a very insightful former player (think Tony Romo calling out the defenses before the ball is snapped), but for the most part sports commentating has always been mediocre because the essence of the job is filling hours of time per game with talking.
> you maybe found out about http basic auth, but then you noticed that it's not so convenient to use with mpv

Feels exactly as convenient as this method. Set the Authorization header using mpv's http-header-fields setting to your basic auth creds instead of shoving a PSK in the user-agent setting (and rigging up custom server-side auth to go with it).

But both methods kinda suck if you don't want to be leaking your auth creds to every unrelated http server you play videos from. Is putting the basic auth creds in the url that big of a deal?
Everything is gambling. Kalshi, polymarket are the apps du jour. Before that robinhood and crypto. The culture is pervasive now.
No level of "clean lab report" healthiness would convince me that the mediocre-at-best tastes and feel-kinda-crappy after-effects of cheapo chocolates were worth paying for.
I was going to comment but you saved me the bother of going into the details - yes, across the board.

Knowing "not a single person who pirates music anymore" is no reflection on music(al) pirates - maybe for some reason the piraters tend to end up in different circles than the kind of people who think spotify has "nearly every record ever created".

On top of what you said in your reply above, I also (partially) blame spotify for the fact that when you ask people what music they like now, a lot of people are quite likely to say "oh, everything!".
A, B, or C...

A. Stop production world wide. Start decomposing PFAS in the environment (there are some chemical methods). You'll probably need a new liver. Wait lots of years.

B. Go to space. Don't come back. You'll probably need a new liver. Also wait years.

C. Cremation

This is something we are probably going to be dealing with for 10s of generations...
Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients?
It's very worrying that consumer protection against poisoning in the US comes from a for-profit company that makes money by short selling companies they found to have issues and then covering their back this way against lawsuits, which any less aggressive reviewer would face.
The comparison isn't with rust today, but the long term differences between the languages. Rust has a straightforward path to rectifying the standardization issue and enough community momentum to succeed.

For example, Rust has an in-progress specification, here's the (currently empty) repo: https://github.com/rust-lang/spec. There's also MIR, a de-sugared internal representation that's sufficiently well specified to build formal models of (see https://github.com/rust-lang/a-mir-formality and https://github.com/rust-lang/miri), as well as the ferrocene spec (https://spec.ferrocene.dev/general.html) that's suitable for certification authorities (if not actually useful) and of course the rust reference/RFCs that are actually usable by people.

Plus, the fact that everyone in the rust community has standardized on one compiler and one package manager (for better or worse) means that the language team has a much better insight into specification breakages than the ISO process of languages like C and C++.

I can start writing stuff today and be confident that any changes will be minor if necessary when the language catches up.

I'm more than happy to have this discussion over email if you want to move it off HN, too.
Agree with all, except for:

> Life is very efficient.

I mean, is it? It's a total tangent, but I've long been having a problem wrapping my mind around the topic of efficiency of life. At whichever scale I look, from ecosystems to inner workings of cells, I see systems held in balance by negative feedback loops, zero-sum games. That is, everything fights everything else for resources, and what we call "balance" is a temporary equilibrium between reproduction, destruction and starvation. Feels like the exact opposite of efficiency. And yet, I can't deny that life can and does a lot with very little. I'm not sure how to reconcile this.

I have this general image in my head wrt. efficiency. Imagine you want to put a box a meter above the ground. There are many ways to do it. You could strap a PLC controller and a rocket engine to it, and keep it up actively. You could put it on a floating platform, filled with hot air, or better, helium or hydrogen. Or, you could just put a mast in the ground and bolt the box to it. The first one is obviously the least efficient, and the last one the most.

When I look at life, I see a lot of things being balanced by means equivalent to the rocket engine approach.
at least on my m2, the compiled kernel ends up using fast math anyways so using WGSL's fma didn't change anything about the actual kernel that gets run
Gambling for me very much falls into the category of “if you’re dumb enough to do it then you deserve to get what’s coming to you” type activities - as in, how do you preserve the practice for adults who enjoy it responsibility, while restricting access to those who’d be better off without it? Who makes that decision? Abolition clearly isn’t a realistic option - so what to do, apart from education and sin tax?
Agree. The part "that goes to specific goal" is the one at competition between parties playing for that goal.
Yeah it did come down to highest bidders. I am not sure how they were found, since it was a bankruptsy with many debtors involved, there was a few consultant companies involved so I figured it was them.

We essentially took questions and generated a informational "guide" for the buyers, mainly what assets could be sold off individually (think things like domains, images, review data) vs systems which mainly came down to marketing site vs inventory management software.

Tech wise we dug into details like dev/test environments, tech debt, potential challenges with integration into another company. Mainly worked to setup the whole environment from scratch, which was a mess due to being mid migration to cloud + terraform from on prem.
How much money was in this prediction market? I can’t imagine it was that much. The problem here may have been with a market that’s too small to motivate thinking through the issue beyond a simple base rate, not that its large size made influential betters act to change the outcome in order to profit from the market.
This is an excellent question. Firstly, there are some very major differences between bringing a species back from extinction and saving a species from extinction. Perhaps the most radical difference is cost, with resurrecting an extinct species being likely impossible but best case costing at least 4 orders of magnitude more.

If the cost of a chicken egg was $10,000 it would likely not be worth the trouble. At $0.15 or $0.60, though, chicken eggs provide an excellent value and are nice to have around!

The real question here is why intervene to keep a species from extinction? The answer is that genetic diversity is massive valuable. The trouble is that the value assessment is very hard to calculate concretely and that value is also very hard to extract in the form of direct profits.

Let’s take the banana as an example.

The global banana market had sales of about $140B in 2023… clearly people value bananas. Today 99% of global trade in bananas is in a single variety, the “Cavendish” banana. But it was not always so. Until the 1950’s the world’s dominant banana was the “Gros Michel”. Over the course of the 1950’s the Gros Michel went commercially extinct as a result of “Panama Disease”. Researchers scoured the world to find a banana not susceptible to Panama Disease that could replace the Gros Michel in commerce. What they found is the Cavendish.

Today, a new strain of Panama Disease has evolved to target the Cavendish. Extinction of Cavendish is proceeding more slowly than that of the Gros Michel, but it seems more or less inevitable at this point.

The fact that we are likely to see 2 varieties of banana go commercially extinct within a single century, is kind of nuts. It seems that the half-life of a commercial banana variety is less that 50 years. The only reason we still have commercial bananas today is because of the rather deep genetic diversity in bananas the earth continued to possess in the 1950’s. That genetic diversity is significantly diminished today.

If we value the banana market as a perpetual annuity with the 2023 growth rate of 7% and a discount rate of 3%, the net present value of the banana market to the citizens of the world is approximately $3.5 Trillion.

How much is it rational to spend preserving this perpetual annuity? Anyway you slice it, the answer is very big… and very much bigger than is currently being spent to preserve the genetic diversity of the banana today.

What was the value of the American Chestnut tree? Hard to say, but it is clear that the loss was massive. I've read estimates that the American Chestnut provided (as fodder) something like 10% of the energy for the pre-extinction American transportation system as well as a substantial winter food source for all kinds of livestock, game and people. Just as transportation energy the yearly value of the American Chestnut would have been about 2% of US GDP.
Not just CSS, it's used to set parameters but looks like the actual rendering is done in a <canvas> element controlled by JS.
Read it too, and I had a similar feeling. To me it was the thought that we will probably never see a place like Bell labs -a temple to knowledge, to gather great minds and let them work on whatever they think might have interesting outcomes, no matter how long it takes to obtain results and without having to worry about short-term financial issues.
Now researchers -in my country anyways- are forced into mostly researching ways to obtain funding and doing a little bit of actual research, almost as a side gig.
> 1-on-1 every week

That’s just normal to me.
My understanding it is quite often government/country contexts where (because ISO is recognised in various international treaties) it is easier to get approval to use an ISO standard than it is to use an OpenID Foundation standard. So getting OpenID Connect published with an ISO number just makes adoption easier for some projects.

OpenID Connect does of course remain free view/use, but now people in the above situation have an easier option available to them.
I use this tool for our every project whether React/typscript/javascript and Html

Here is the UseCase https://weblike.ai/usecase
Maybe the concern about plastic packaging that seemed to deeply resonate with few people, and has some merit to be more broadly considered.
Can "the authorities" intervene prior to a crime they believe is going to be committed? The supreme court has roundly rejected prior restraint. [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/pn-kxUEySy0?t=54
> They tried hard to shut down an unofficial app (Uniweb) that was installed by most of the students in favor of the "official" one, that was completely unusable

Sounds like what happened with the Apollo app and Reddit
This used to be true with the original Netflix where they mailed you DVDs. They really had almost everything you could think of, you just had to wait a day or two to get it. I watched so many obscure movies, it was fantastic!
Karl Popper (1997)
That's highly debatable. It's one of several issues that I think contributed to his win. And it's unclear to me that he is really very serious about the whole family values thing in particular.

If you were a single issue voter on that particular issue, he was the obvious choice, but I don't think that issue is something on most people's minds or responsible for a significant proportion of single issue voters that could have been swayed to Trump.

Certainly, I think the rabid anti-natalism among the Democratic party is probably more responsible for a shift of any of said voters concerned about demographics than any declared natalist position that Trump advanced. He really hasn't pushed policy any further in that way than would have been considered very normal 10 or 15 years ago. With the sole exception of some states being allowed to implement abortion bans (although the extent to which that is really a natalist policy I think is up for debate, I don't think the majority of pro life voters conceptualize it in that way or expect it to have a measurable demographic effect).

Immigration and inflation and the cultural out of touchness of the opposing candidate all contributed to his win more than explicit fear about declining birth rates. That definitely contributes somewhat to the above fears, but it can't account for them entirely.

I feel qualified to speak on this being from a conservative family and being much more willing to consider Trump than I think the majority of the HackerNews audience is. Also, I'm located in Texas, where my point of view is perhaps somewhere around the median on a left - right axis. I've never once heard birth rates brought up by family or friends as a reason somebody wanted to vote for Trump. That being said, it would make sense if they did, and it's something I'd be interested in, on account of being a little more wonky than most of my family and friends, and thinking it's a serious issue that is still being vastly under discussed.
Nearly all large cities today are large cities because they historically were one, leading to economies of scale in infrastructure and agglomeration economies in the production and exchange of goods and services. Ease of sea access is not a major determinant of a city's growth & prosperity today.

Many cities historically grew around ports due to the labor intensity of break-bulk shipping and the difficulty and expense of overland goods transport but modern container ports require relatively few employees and can easily move freight intermodally. The old piers in London and Hamburg and New York and San Francisco and their adjacent factories have all been redeveloped, and the working container ports have all relocated away from the city center to places where rail & highway access is easier, to places like Newark, Oakland, and Felixstowe.
I doubt that the job is to figure out updates to the book when an unplanned failure occurs over a heavily populated civilian area.
Outside of this Google case, that’s what predictions markets are, they’re for gambling.

The Google case turns out to not be real money, but it’s weird that the article never said that, and it’s weird that the author responded with three points of whataboutism instead of just saying “it wasn’t real money”.

If someone wrote an article that Google set up a roulette wheel in the microkitchen and employees “bet” on it, yes I’d assume they were running an actual casino and find that weird too!
Seconding this! It's very very good and well worth the cost.
In case you are -as I was- wondering: Debian Junior [0] "is a Debian Pure Blend [1] to make Debian an OS that children will enjoy using."

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJr

[1] https://www.debian.org/blends/
TLB_shootdowns
Regulation against dark patterns.
Do you know if Rock "N" Roll has PFAS in it? I don't see anything mentioned online.
Their "intent" is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. Nothing else matters; not today, and not in the future.
This is how I made a better version of the nhl.com site [1] that has a better UI (you can see scores/schedules much more easily), is mobile first, has no ads, and responsiveness built in. I did the same for the AHL [2], and the PWHL [3].

[1] https://nhl-remix.vercel.app/
[2] https://ahl-remix.vercel.app/
[3] https://pwhl-remix.vercel.app/
We're also only one scandal away from destroying public trust in a professional sports league. That would be bad for the culture too. It's always seemed shortsighted to me that the leagues are directly partnering with gambling apps.
Mammoths were hunted to extinction and would otherwise do just fine in many wild parts of the world.
thanks for the response! those calibration charts don't look too bad. that's reassuring.
> the Turing Test was considered the bar for AGI

By some measures, PARRY[0] passed this test in 1972. It's a bad test for general intelligence, although I'm not convinced it was meant to be that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY
Related:

Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659458
This is scary, but it doesn't teach me anything. What is a foundry, why is it full of piles of metal junk, why is some of it (evidently) wet, what are these trash compactors full of fire, I guess they're the furnaces, why does the other forklift driver just kind of sit there, why does the one forklift driver (splashed in molten wet metal scrap) move away from the (I assume) self-inflicted napalm mine field to the left and then drive through it to the right, is he just scared and injured and nervous or what is that all about? I have nothing but questions about this.
if every copy of a film was slowly being erased from the records, you'd rather preserve copies of the film than have the director's cousin remake it based on some pictures and your grandpa's diaries. you can obviously do both, but option 1 is clearly going to be more popular

any number of analogies are applicable: breeding extant animals to resemble extinct ones based on what some self-appointed human reckons they were like is not comparable to preservation.

it's nostalgia, it is ego, it's a vanity project, essentially. no surprise it was inspired by the Nazis
Securities laws are written in terms of duty ethics ("fiduciary duty", "duty of due care", etc). That's all anyone at the top would care about.
MLB and NBA have already had corrupt officials and players altering the game for gambling purposes.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal

NFL also has players that NFL itself “punishes” for gambling, although I don’t think any refs have been caught yet:

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-reinstates-five-players-who-wer...
As someone who makes between 25 and 50 phone calls on an average day, it’s a minor annoyance. I receive and make about 1-2 accidental calls a week, it hasn’t been a big deal for me.
After a 2k-Mile Trip, a Penguin Finds Itself on an Australian Beach