skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alternative take - this might not actually be the worst thing for musicians, to have a low effort, steady paying gig creating music.

I think this is a red herring to try to convince people that it's in their best interests to be force-fed content produced by major labels behind the brand {INSERT_ARTIST_NAME}.

Which incidentally it's the business model from major labels.

I mean, check any major labels artist. Each and every single hit song they release has countless writers and producers claiming a stake, not to mention the fact that some major labels artists don't even try to hide the fact they buy all their content from third-parties to slap their name over it.

Is this the state of affairs that's being defended?

Give me a procedurally-generated playlist that I can listen all day long, and skip the content I'm not interested in.
Happily will do so!

I’ll try to answer my following research questions:

If Palestinians want a state so badly, why didn’t they accept one in 1948?

In the following decades, when Gaza was Egyptian, the West Bank was Jordanian and the Golan heights Syrian, why didn’t their Arab brothers give them their own state?

Where were the Palestinians in ‘67 when these Arab leaders decided to attack Israel, got a bloody nose and created the mess we’re in today?

Where were the Palestinians in the 90s, when Arafat could have given them their own state with East Jerusalem as their capital?

Where were the demonstrations, streets filled with crowds, demanding peace and their own state?

My history and just observing current events with my eyes are telling me that instead of making their state a reality as they could have multiple times, Palestinians are weirdly obsessed with the existence of Israel as a whole and streets are only filled with cheering crowds if Israeli hostages or bodies are paraded through them.

Meanwhile, Israel has two Supreme Court judges of Arab descent, one of whom sent two Jewish Prime Ministers to prison, the recent head of Israel’s oldest and largest bank was an Israeli Arab, Arab citizens are part of the national soccer team, the police, the medical services, the judiciary, the list goes on and on.

Looks like it’s the same in Israel as the rest of the world: If you’re not hellbent on killing your neighbor because you discriminate them based on their creed, looks, whatever, people welcome you to take part in society.
The problem is that their automatic song selection now chooses songs based on what earns them money. Rather than their best guess of what people want to hear. This isn't disintermediating the record labels. It's taking audiences from real artists, and placing it with artists that have given up their rights to royalties.

That isn't disintermediating recordlabels. That is just serving customers worse music. Heck, it is disintermediating artists from their audience.
Mentioned study :
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10738
I’m certain these studies are able to estimate those other deaths and consider factors beyond just carcasses on the ground, because I am personally close to a biologist that works on this, but I don’t know exactly how they do it. The author here seems to be incorrectly extrapolating research statements on static buildings to windmills, when the latter is much more researched.
Passkeys are asymmetric keys so a hacked site cannot leak the hash or even the plaintext of a passkey. And the private key is never exported to insecure hardware. Funny how so many Linux gurus have been shitting on using passwords for SSH for decades in favor of using SSH keys and now that there is an actually effort to use what are essentially SSH keys tied to a specific domain they are rejecting it.
It's cool to see that they are still going. To any one looking to using this for SMPP connections should skip the releases and build it straight from SVN trunk to get the latest bugfixes.
FDA approves prescription medicine for sleep apnea
I am a heavy user of spotify and their "station/radio" feature. Like a song? Go to it's song-station and explorer other songs like it.
It's this kind of discovery that keeps me using Spotify.

Are there any alternatives to that?
>all is a no-brainer

Yet who does things like that?

Web developers have tendency to do not innovate themselves, they need to be told by $tech_influencer that you can create your own custom solution
Disagree. Nothing can replace face to face socialization. We're not even close. Our minds are just adapting, but to a new local maximum that is far away from the global maximum of ideal.

(Edit: corrected typographical error.)
I assume that o3 can run Python scripts and observe the outputs.
The difference is the amount and nature of data that is available for training models, which go programmers > lawyers > doctors. Especially for programming, training can even be done in an autonomous, self-supervised manner that includes generation of data. This is hard to do in most other fields.

Especially in medicine, the amount of data is ridiculously small and noisy. Maybe creating foundational models in mice and rats and fine-tuning them on humans is something that will be tried.
It has a bill counter.
FDA Rewrites Rules of 'Healthy' Foods for First Time in 30 Years
We use it to send OTP messages through few telco providers who don't have HTTP API.
The key is limits. In the past, even if celebrites were idolized, we had a limited amont of information compared to now. The fluid variable is the increase in information, which makes the situation different.
Nice article. I had always held that Philosophy was an immensely practical discipline but bottled up by academia (after the scientific revolution) in meaningless debates/pointless nitpicking thus emasculating it of its vital essence. Philosophy was meant to be practiced, adjusted and modified for "Real Life" within a Worldview with certain inviolable core principles. Some books that i have personally found illuminating are (in no particular order);

1) Epictetus' Handbook and The Tablet of Cebes: Guides to Stoic Living by Keith Seddon - The author takes Epictetus's "Enchiridion" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchiridion_of_Epictetus) and adds detailed commentary to it thus giving you a deeper understanding of its practical philosophy. "The Tablet of Cebes" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebes#The_Tablet_of_Cebes
) is an allegorical tale of the structure of Life and the interplay of various factors affecting it; absolutely beautiful and one of my favourites.

2) The article's mention of Mengzi's "sprouts" reminds me another chinese text Caigentan aka "Vegetable Roots Discourses" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caigentan). Two good translations are the one by Robert Aitken/Daniel Kwok and the other by William Scott Wilson.

3) Hindu philosophy has multiple schools. One of the most ancient schools whose fundamental ideas have been taken into and modified by other schools is Samkhya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya). The beauty of this school is the way it defines and structures everything both material and non-material and distinguishes them from the "True us/self" (i.e. Consciousness/Awareness) into one unified framework. A good (and relatively easy to understand) translation of one of the main texts is The Essence of Samkhya Karikas: The Foundation of Yoga Philosophy by Damini Dalal.
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege
You can enable it. Either through 'smart shuffle' or by looking at the suggested added songs.
There is also 'song radio', discover weekly, and automated playlist based on mood or Genre.

I presume those playlists based on mood and Genre is what these songs have been added to.
At what time will it kill us all because it understands that humans are the biggest problem before it can simply chill and not worry.

That would be intelligent. Everything else is just stupid and more of the same shit.
> The invasion of Lebanon and Syria by Israel shows that it's not about the hostages. There are no hostages in Lebanon or Syria. It's about acquiring more land.

It doesn't show any such thing. The invasion of Lebanon was because Hezbollah, who are in Lebanon, declared war on Israel on October 8th, and had been bombing Israel for almost a year. Israel invaded to put a stop to this war.

Syria is (at least currently) a preemptive move to protect Israel from a potentially-adversarial enemy on its borders.
>in newer computers with M.2 storage I'm delighted to find the existence of SATA SSD storage in M.2 form factor Now I don't have to pay NVMe prices any more.

In which year do you live in? New computers haven't been shipping with M2 SATA storage since like ~2018, and SATA SSDs haven't been cheaper than NVME since at least ~2020. NVME has been cheaper than SATA for many years already.
Nobody wants US greenbacks. You can't even use them to stay warm for long.

What people want is the value it represents in a way they can manage that value.

I don't want fictional numbers in some asset fund that say I own zero point not not not 1 percent of some company in stocks either. Or even numbers that say I have money on an account. I don't want gold in my sock-drawer, either. It's the value this represents (and the trust that this value will give me real stuff that I actually need, like a pizza, in future).

Bitcoin, to many, over the years, has acquired this too. There's real and obvious proof that people trust that Bitcoin has value. Not all people. But enough.
It's not the first but they are extremely rare.
Even if technological "addiction" is not like real drug addiction, it is something strange. People constantly checking, scrolling without any real purpose. There's some sort of conditioned behaviour in it that has some facets of addiction.
AGI ⇒ ARC-AGI-PUB

And not the other way around as some comments here seem to confuse necessary and sufficient conditions.
> [Smith] argues insurance just isn’t very profitable. [...] One obvious problem with Smith’s analysis is that accounting profits are a dumb way to understand surplus spending.

Also, corporate profit numbers are what you have after subtracting expenses that might include things like tricks to drive competitors out of business. Perhaps someone with accounting credentials can speak to how much gobbling up smaller companies can be counted as an expense.

In other words, a low profit margin doesn't mean the company can't be hoovering up money, especially if shareholders are OK with the spending because anticipate being rewarded by higher stock prices.
It's probably not related, but this was the first thing that came to my mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353079
> kids today are really focused on is: lifestyle -- they want to work hard at school so they can get great jobs to make a lot of money so they can afford to own a home and live healthy lives

To expand on this point: American kids today are facing a world that’s drawn up the ladder behind them economically, and their only hope of escaping the pit of despair is to work themselves to the bone for the dregs of pay available to them. Unhealthy habits cost precious wage-earning time. Their intoxicant of choice is prescription medications because they’re covered by insurance, and that’s largely kept things from boiling over into harming the ascended old people — until recently, anyways.

> I do have faith in the next generation and we’re going to see some amazing leaders come out of this group.

Not if today’s leaders have anything to say about it. What leadership arises is, to date, captured by the pre-existing social structures and has had no power to keep the ever-older graying generations from holding the reins away from them. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when public health insurance is taken away, as withdrawing the last of the price-accessible drugs will certainly put their skills to the test.

I remain hopeful for the outcome, but the circumstances are already set in the recent past. What a time to be a social scientist, though!
Certainly the ones that hack journalists should go to prison.
Sounds like last.fm did, but not sure if it still works.
getting too drunk or taking drugs you couldn’t handle isn’t tolerated
and you’ll find yourself uninvited to future events. It is significantly
more socially acceptable to drink no alcohol and take no drugs, than it
is to get too drunk and act inappropriately.

That doesn't sound all that different than previous generations. SXE's been a thing since the 80s. Not everyone is Bret Easton Ellis. I don't think that attitudes have changed all that much, but circumstances have. Inflation and wage stagnation mean less discretionary spending. Fentanyl analogues mean street drugs are significantly more lethal than in generations past. Legalized marijuana means there's less mystery and motivation to experiment further.

I've interacted with a number of Gen Zers in their 20s and Millenials in their early 30s, some in passing and some on a more regular basis. In my experience that cohort spans the gamut. Some are teetotalers, sure. Most use drugs (cocaine, ketamine, assorted off-label prescription stuff, marijuana, etc.) at least occasionally, some daily. It really doesn't seem all that different from when I was their age. Excluding peer pressure, most of the societal ills that drove my peers to experiment with drugs still apply. Conversely I've seen a lot of my peers start to dial back drug and alcohol use as they get older.
How many of the 10,000 are developers though? For a company like Spotify, I'd assume they have a huge legal/business team just to deal with record label.
How, exactly? Israel was in negotiations with the official representative of the Palestinians, the PA, and they refused all offers and walked away from the negotiations.

The opposite approach happened in Gaza - Israel just unilaterally walked away. They then elected Hamas, who is bent on Israel's destruction, and who proceeded to wage war on Israel for twenty years, culminating in the October 7th attacks.

What now?

Edit: I'm not saying I agree with your framing of the question.
I have a fun exception to this!

When writing BPF programs, sometimes it's tricky to get the compiler to generate code that passes the verifier. This can lead you down a path of writing bizarre C in order to try and produce the right order of checks and register allocations.

So, use inline asm!

It's not portable any more... But it's a BPF program! There's nothing to port it to.

It's less readable... Wait no, it's _more_ readable because BPF asm has good syntax and you can avoid the bizarre C backflips to satisfy the verifier.

It's unsafe... Wait no, it's checked for safety at load time!
So basically it's a massively inefficient trial-and-error leetcode solver which only works because it throws incredible amounts of compute at the problem.

This is hilarious.
Does this have to be actively enabled by the user? I never really had this "next song" thing play for me, nor I ever looked at any playlists Spotify generated (I always presumed they would be bad).

Then again, if people are using these features and they are fine with the results, I fail to see the issue.
A tactical nuclear strike can lead to non-MAD Nash equilibrium pro striker
It's just like traditional publishers and any "gatekeeper" ever existing.

Creators hate them until they face the consumers directly. And then they'll realize what consumers want is actually slop, and the only entities keeping slops from being even slopper are the gatekeepers.
I'd wager that most people did but then corrected themselves.
If the supermarket slowly adds more fat to their products, people will probably continue eating without noticing. But calling that an active decision is quite a reach.

Similarly, this isn't an active choice of users. And the harm isn't that they are listening to filler, it's that during their random listening, they aren't coming across any new good music. They are prevented from widening their horizons.

They aren't actively choosing this. Spotify deceives them into thinking this is music chosen because it is likely the users will like this music.
Another piece of evidence that LLMs are plateauing
Sounds great until you check an air quality map. It's been miserable here in the Bay Area between the storms. AQI of 100–150 depending.
What makes you think turbines are singled out?!

There’s no point to ban them altogether neither the cats or cars. Consider a range if options between total ban and total unregulation. Thing about traffic code.

The biologists that took of look at it probably already have propositions like putting them outside of the narrowest migratory corridors or ways to be visible to birds as stickers does on German windows.
I'm an avid baseball fan.
it's been SWITCHed to another addiction. Pun intended
Socialization online exists, but I'm not sure that it's the main activity on phones.

When you look at https://explodingtopics.com/blog/screen-time-for-teens it does not look promising.
Video is leading, then Gaming which can include socialization then third come Social media but with Tik Tok leading which I would not categorize as socialization.
> A fact is that a significant percentage of the population supported this killing. I don't remember where I saw that 60% number, but suppose it's only 10%, or 20%. That's still tens of millions of people, it should still be reported on, dispassionately and factually.

This is a big claim to say a significant percentage of the population supported this murder, so we need to know how that source got those figures.

I want to know about the extent of the study, and how they even phrased the question, after all, it could be the result of a poorly done study, if it's real at all.

I think it's essential to find out where you saw this because you seem to believe in it, yet you don't recall a source or where you learned about it. These are usually signs of being the target of misinformation — it's the typical "I saw on social media that..."

So before we continue this engagement, let us ground ourselves in reality, and I'll ask you to find the source of that study and share it here.
Do you know how many parliamentary elections have been held in Israel in the past 5 years?

Anyways, you clearly seem not to be interested in either the complexity of reality or the actions that preceded those of the Israeli government.

The political division in the US I think isn’t even as high as the one in Israel.

While we’re on the topic of actions, kindly tell me how much “genocide” was going on in Gaza prior to October 7th.

I’d challenge you to look at population growth in Gaza over the past 2 decades to make a point.

How many protests did the US see over the past two decades for millions of civilians killed by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Because we are building wind turbines when there are far better alternatives such as nuclear. We’re also being sold that “wind is better for the environment” when it’s not.
> So why are wind turbines singled out?

Because some people hate the looks of wind turbines, they believe it lowers their property value. To pretend that this is about the birds is absurd, because if it was these same people would target cats as well and they are not doing that and never did.

People can be amazingly stupid. Some people in my area wanted to prevent the construction of wind turbines as it would destroy the view of the nearby fjord. They strategically forgot to mention that the turbines would be replacing a coal fired power plant (and the open air coal storage). The view is already destroyed, if anything the turbines will actually let you see the fjord and make room for a huge nature area around them.

There might also be a group of people working in the fossil fuel industry who fear that wind turbines are taking their jobs.
It is unstoppable, permissionless and pseudomic. All but the last is indeed this criminals dream.

But cash isn't pseudonomic, it's actually anonymous. It's even (practically) untracable. Cash is also unstoppable and permissionless. So it's far more a criminal's dream.
Cash, however, isn't easy to transfer, especially larger values. It gets harder even if that transfer is internationally. Bitcoin solves that.

Bitcoin's upside of being very easy to transfer, sometimes outweigh its downside of being hard to launder, being tracable.
But let's stop the myth that it's so much better than all existing systems to move criminal assets around, because it's not. It's complementary, not a holy grail. It really has a lot of weaknesses, especially to criminals' needs.
I don't really see it as a big "owning" of Rust that a complex pointer heavy structure with runtime defined ownership cannot be checked statically. Almost every language that people use doubly linked lists in has a GC, making the discussion kind of meaningless.

So C and C++ are the exceptions to the rule, but how do they make it easy to write doubly linked lists? Obviously, the key assumption is that that the developer makes sure that node->next->prev = node->prev->next = node (Ignoring nullptr).

With this restriction, you can safely write a doubly linked list even without reference counting.

However, this isn't true on the pointer level. The prev pointers could be pointing at the elements in a completely random order. For example tail->prev = head, head->prev = second_last and so on. So that going backwards from the tail is actually going forwards again!

Then there is also the problem of having a pointer from the outside of the linked list pointing directly at a node. You would need a weak pointer, because another pointer could have requested deletion from the linked list, while you're still holding a reference.

If you wanted to support this generic datastructure, rather than the doubly linked list you have in your head, then you would need reference counting in C/C++ as well!

What this tells you, is that Rust isn't restrictive enough to enforce these memory safe contracts. Anyone with access to the individual nodes could break the contract and make the code unsafe.
Is true that we should keep in mind that there is an implicit "at least" 150 eagles killed by just one company. Plus all the other bird species. This value is a minimum estimation.

Several scientific studies calculate than between 234,000 and 573,093 birds on average are killed by year in USA by windmills. Big and small species. Data points that bats suffer even more than birds. (See Smallwood. 2010. The Journal of the wildlife management 71, issue 8 for example).
Thanks for the comment. The new book by Tymoczko is interesting, but written in a more philosophical, narrative than scientific/mathematical style, why I didn't mention it. There is no mention of a programming language in the book, but he has published some examples at https://www.madmusicalscience.com. I look forward to more of his books, but I find it a little regrettable that many free spirits hinder themselves by feeling they have to justify themselves and appease with the "old curia" for their findings; as a result, a lot of material gets into these books that distracts from the actual ideas and tries to follow the traditional, authority-based style instead of one shaped by independent science.

Thanks for the feedback. The video shows my setup ten years ago; my most recent musical results are here: http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1317.
but a reasonably fast PC workstation (400 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM) should serve several concurrent users without problems.

Back when software was actually efficient... and of course when WAP meant something entirely different!
> Why fund them? Because for whatever reasons, in his later years, Arafat and the PLO were becoming tired of endless conflict and far more diplomatic and open to negotiation.

Whatever else you think, let's be clear-eyed about the history of Arafat here. Arafat walked away from his negotiations with Israel, despite what many think were fairly good offers for peace and a two-state solution. (It's common nowadays to think the offers weren't very good, but I disagree, and in any case walking away from negotiations is the opposite of pursuing peace.)

There is very little reason to think that the Palestinians wouldn't have a state today, if Arafat was willing to compromise more with Israel (even after potentially more negotiation).