skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your point of view is dismissive and simplistic, or you grew up in a household that didn't value you as a human being when you were a child.

The world is by no means a better place today, and there are still "far greater" conveniences people go through every day, young, adult, or old alike. Many are invisible now, but being invisible doesn't make them less valid or less damaging. If you still want to see some visible "far greater inconveniences," look a bit lower on the globe, to the Middle East and Africa. These people will be ancestors of generations to come if they can stay alive.

Being able to grow past a certain age without dying is a very low bar to clear at this age. Humans are much more sophisticated today in both single and collective forms. Our ideas are more complex, our behaviors are more sophisticated, and ethical and personal standards are higher... All in all, we are progressing. Technological progress is a byproduct and enabler, but human (mental) progress is the first trigger.

So, if someone wants a trophy child and never attends to them after being born, it's unjust to the child, and the trophy owner is entitled to reap what they sow during their development.

If a couple in a developed country wants to have a single child and raise them the best they can to surpass their parents and have a better life, I see no gatekeeping here. Yes, sometimes the best intentions bring the worst outcomes, but at least the intention is good to begin with.

It's rather selfish to justify bad living conditions and having a hard life because "our ancestors lived that way" in the past. With that attitude, you're the gatekeeper of progress and a better world that we or our descendants can create. It might be a little less crowded at the end, but it'll be their choice and challenge to overcome.
First, you have to find a spatula with the specific compound in question.

Less than 10% of items studied contained the specific compound in the article.

FTA:

The study examined 203 black plastic household products, including 109 kitchen utensils, 36 toys, 30 hair accessories, and 28 food serviceware products. Of those 203 products, only 20 (10 percent) had any bromine-containing compounds at levels that might indicate contamination from bromine-based flame retardants, like BDE-209. Of the 109 kitchen utensils tested, only nine (8 percent) contained concerning bromine levels.

"[A] minority of black plastic products are contaminated at levels >50 ppm [bromine]," the study states.

But that's just bromine compounds. Overall, only 14 of the 203 products contained BDE-209 specifically.
LOL sorry yes, too early + sick ;-)

That aside, it feels to me the same, some versions work, some don't.
> Your files are processed directly in your browser, and no files are uploaded to our servers or stored by us.

How does it run a Python library entirely browser side? Just curious.

(Given the faff of setting up a Python environment, this is a great idea.)
Asking for a friend?

It depends if you enjoy it buddy
Light is fast, but it isn't imperceptible. The original experiments to measure it in a lab involved spinning rigs and mirrors between hills. When dealing with objects the size of continents, such as phone or other communication systems, the delays are well within our abilities to detect.
OK, if drinking too much booze, eating too much pizza, and not working out are instrumental in rapidly getting the service in the hands of paying users, then it's like those things.

It's called "tech debt" rather than "tech indulgence" because it is helpful but has to be repaid in time.
There are two concerns here.

First, that Spotify doesn't make clear when a track is produced by a Spotify "ghost artist".

And second, Spotify is in an unfair position as both the controller of the marketplace/platform, and as a participant on it. The allegation in this article is that Spotify are using their platform position to promote their own PFC program tracks over third party artists/labels.

To be clear, it's not necessarily consumers who are being harmed here. These tracks are supposedly targeted to cases where the consumer doesn't really care that much about the songs that are being played. Rather the party harmed are third party artists/labels who are competing for Spotify playlist space on an uneven playing field.
The LLMs are now writing their own algorithms to answer questions. Not long before they can design a more efficient algorithm to complete any feasible computational task, in a millionth of the time needed by the best human.
There’s another way, which HN’ers won’t like and that’s to borrow a page from the video streaming playbook and have the labels start their own individual services.

Which of course will also eventually push Muzak on the bgm playlist/channels
> At this point, I need to complain about the stupid major record labels who have empowered and supported Spotify during its long history. At some junctures, they have even been shareholders.

I’ve warned repeatedly that this is a huge mistake. Spotify is their adversary, not their partner. The longer they avoid admitting this to themselves, the worse things will get.

I think this confuses record labels with artists. I don't see labels having a problem with replacing their artists with AI, as long as they still get the royalties.
Ha, I tried that before. However, the file was too large for its context window, so it only seemed to analyze the first part and gave a wrong result.
The brain is predisposed to learn those skills. Early childhood experiences are necessary to complete the training. Perhaps that could be likened to post-training. It's not a one-to-one comparison but a rather loose analogy which I didn't make it precise because it is not the key point of the argument.

Maybe evolution could be better thought of as neural architecture search combined with some pretraining. Evidence suggests we are prebuilt with "core knowledge" by the time we're born [1].

See: Summary of cool research gained from clever & benign experiments with babies here:

[1] Core knowledge. Elizabeth S. Spelke and Katherine D. Kinzler. https://www.harvardlds.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Spelke...
Translating undefined behavior is the easy part.
> Right now I can ask an (experienced) human to do something for me and they will either just get it done or tell me that they can’t do it.

Finding reliable honest humans is a problem governments have struggled with for over a hundred years. If you have cracked this problem at scale you really need to write it up! There are a lot of people who would be extremely interested in a solution here.
Followup: I've now implemented this and I determined it doesn't take enough longer to have a noticeable impact. It so happens mango has an sRGB to linear function that is much faster than using Pixman to do the conversion so that's what I used. I kept it 32-bit all the way through which will introduce some colour banding but it's not really noticable with the photorealistic images being resized. So I expect this will be ready for whenever I release my next version
I mean, the actual problem is that people listen to playlists and recommendations from Spotify itself. They voluntarily eat turds, then complain that what they just ate tastes like shit.

The solution is simple - curate your own playlists, or find people with tastes similar to yours that shared theirs.

Don't give a company power to pick music for you, then complain that they have such power.
The Deep Space 9 episode with Iggy Pop was on TV yesterday.

When the Ferengi accidentally shot the prisoner they were going to exchange with Iggy, they used a set of ‘neural stimulators’ to move their muscles and make them walk zombie-esque to the exchange.

This statement makes me think of that.
Explain why MDMA isn't a huge addiction problem like meth (or all that popular any more).
Claude answers a lot of its questions by first writing and then running code to generate the results. Its only limitation is the access to databases and size of context window, both of which will be radically improved over the next 5 years.
if true, beyond the pale. actively making music worse for everyone.
> Does true intelligence require a foundation of prior knowledge?

This is the way I think about it.

I = E / K

where I is the intelligence of the system, E is the effectiveness of the system, and K is the prior knowledge.

For example, a math problem is given to two students, each solving the problem with the same effectiveness (both get the correct answer in the same amount of time). However, student A happens to have more prior knowledge of math than student B. In this case, the intelligence of B is greater than the intelligence of A, even though they have the same effectiveness. B was able to "figure out" the math, without using any of the "tricks" that A already knew.

Now back to your question of whether or not prior knowledge is required. As K approaches 0, intelligence approaches infinity. But when K=0, intelligence is undefined. Tada! I think that answers your question.

Most LLM benchmarks simply measure effectiveness, not intelligence. I conceptualize LLMs as a person with a photographic memory and a low IQ of 85, who was given 100 billion years to learn everything humans have ever created.

IK = E

low intelligence * vast knowledge = reasonable effectiveness
You can use yt-dlp to get:

- the channel id by youtube channel url

- the duration + aspect ratio (<= 3 min + vertical = short)

- whether or not it's a live / future video
That isn't what's happened with the RealPage case. Landlords are keeping properties vacant for months at a time under the promise that it will boost their long term profits.
> Doesn't this go against the ethics of reporting such extreme events, which empower people with mental health issues to "copy cat" in order to seek attention and gain social status?

If we're talking about opinion pieces, sure. But when it comes to headlines, those are supposed to be a reasonably dispassionate reporting of facts. 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.

If the newspaper decides it would be ethically wrong to have opinion pieces representing this section of the population, that's another matter. Personally, given that we've all been forced to listen to representatives from both sides for several decades on things like gay marriage, abortion, and so on, I think they should apply that rule in this case too and give opinions from both sides.
Kinda replying to https://lobste.rs/s/5gnorf/jank_programming_language#c_e05lv...

If Jank decides to tackle the poor type story of Clojure, the thing that'd be awesome is to get something like SBCL's deftransform: a way for the compiler to pass inferred type info of forms to macros.
Why not stick with the version that works? I don't think I've seen this approach before but I do it for any app that doesn't seem like a security problem when out of date
When models are capable of generating music better than humans can, Spotify might be disintermediated entirely.
The ugly truth is that most people (I dare to say 99%+) don't care much about music. They just need to listen to something while doing their jobs.
The consumer is harmed if they are given the impression that playlists contain tracks voted up by other listeners like themselves, when in fact they are voted up by Spotify. Not sure if this is the case but if so, it would be clearly misleading the users.
Just use Synergy, the OG "soft KVM": https://symless.com/synergy
This is a massively overstated, trendy, technically incorrect thing to say.
During winter the days are shorter so the lights are on more often.

People tend to eat/drink more heated things than during summer (think coffee maker and microwave ovens).

They also tend to spend more time inside due to the weather so they use things needing electricity (TV, computer, radio...).
Same here. I don't use Spotify as a radio (I have radio for that) but as a very big record collection. I listen to records or my own playlists. You can switch off the auto-play feature in the settings, so that Spotify stops after the record or playlist ends.

I learn about new music the old school way, opening and supporting acts at concerts and recommendations by friends. Sometimes I read a music magazine.
You’d need labels at all then why?
Tort Law

(plus see tristors answer as to it being passed on and not coming from profits)
I left when they gave Bro Rogaine hundreds of millions of dollars to promote harmful conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

Between Bandcamp, Tidal and YouTube (latter are more likely to face these same issues), I've never looked back. The odd exception is when a friend wants to share a song but I can usually find it elsewhere.

For anyone considering leaving Spotify for Tidal but fearful of losing their followed artists, playlists, etc., there are a number of (paid) services which will programmatically export and link your data. They're not perfect but I think my success rate was 80%.
Just watched some of his videos and they are really good. Kudos @nicoburns
Agreed. The large and passionate community may have multiple factors but "things actually work" is probably a factor.

It is hard to get a full picture of how academic research influenced Rust and vice versa. Two examples:

- The use of linearity for tracking ownership in types has been known to academics but had never found its way into a mainstream language.

- researchers in programming language semantics pick Rust as a target of formalization, which was only possible because of design choices around type system. They were able to apply techniques that resulted from decades of trying to get a certified C. They have formalized parts of the standard library, including unsafe Rust, and found and fixed bugs.

So it seems fair to say that academic research on safety for C has contributed much to what makes Rust work today, and in ways that are not possible for C and C++ because these languages do not offer static guarantees where types Transport information about exclusive access to some part of memory.
Or 10x the skill and speed of a human in some specific class of recurrent tasks. We don't need full super-human AGI for AI to become economically viable.
Oh god please no. I'm already needing like seven video subscription services on a rotating basis to see the various nice things people talk about, music is such a good counterexample of where it just works to aggregate everything on several platforms and people can choose which service works best
Add to that: Floating Points, Rival Consoles, Brian Eno…
Oh right, recently I started learning classic ML and “just” tried to install tensorflow, which, itself or through one of dependencies, stopped providing windows binaries since x.y.z and so my python has to be downgraded to 3.a and then other dependencies stop installing. Eventually I managed to find a proper version intersection for everything together with some shady repo, but it felt like one more requirement and I’ll get overconstrained.
> a proportion of the listeners don't recognize they are listening to slop

this is perhaps the crux of the matter!

Very few people in my social circle whose taste in music I share. The majority of them don't even have a "taste" and content with whatever their car-radio pumps out.

Does that drive me mad? Mildly.

Appreciating and recognizing great music is a deeply personal experience.

Like appreciating different culinary tastes that requires training and exposure (ideally from a young age), it's also hard work (the older and more settled our tastes get).
Honestly, it doesn't need to be local, API is some 200ms away is ok-ish, make it 50ms it will be practically usable for every majority of interaction.
Why do you think Wikipedia is an accurate representation of the English language? Is it just because it's large?

As an encyclopedia, it has an intentionally limited and factual way of describing things, which lacks a lot of important parts of language like poetry, allegory, metaphor, slang, regional dialects, and so on.

The fact that it can be compressed down so much probably just means it has a ton of repetition.
I still don't understand why the iPad mini needs to be its own separate product category instead of it just being the 8" iPad Air.
I have to leave my windows dirty so the damn birds stop smacking into it.

Furrows the brow of my wife up quite a bit.
> Our single best hope is a cooperative streaming platform owned by labels and musicians.

There’s a coop Bandcamp alternative being built right now: https://subvert.fm/

Hopefully
I don't think it says generated, but music made by people (presumably simply paid a fair wage by the hour or so) who don't then get royalties but it can just be played infinitely many times at no cost to Spotify besides bandwidth
This seems analogous to a supermarket selling its own private label product. Should be disclosed though.
Because copyright lasts an obscenely long time so record labels can continue to rent seek and grab a large share of spending on music for work performed many decades ago.
Try The great controversy between Christ and satan.
It's a problem if Spotify is giving preference to its lower cost slop over other artists. If Spotify is going to be a marketplace for music it has to be a fair one.
I'm starting to think many people just aren't into sex that much, in the same way many people aren't into food.

Many people just get hungry and inhale the most convenient thing they can to scratch the hunger itch. McDonald's is always busy. People would be there on Christmas day if it was open. These people aren't into food as pleasure, they just don't want to be hungry. Of course with meal replacements bottles etc McDonald's isn't even the bottom of that particular barrel.

It's the same with sex. I've met people who define themselves by their sexuality. They consider it a primary pursuit in life. But for others it's just scratching an itch. I've realised I'm basically that way. It doesn't mean that much to me, it's just something my body makes me do. Porn is now everywhere and more easily accessible than drugs. People are now able to reach for McDonald's or the meal replacement, but for sex.
> 1) A supermarket does not bill itself as a neutral discovery platform.

Neither does Spotify? It's the "pay once, listen to anything, more convenient than Torrents" thing; discovery sucks everywhere anyway.

> 2) A supermarket can't make up fake information about the provenance of its products. The information on the cereal box is regulated to be truthful (well, we hope).

Yeah, but then if you read it carefully, you may be surprised to learn that the Premium Brand Cereal X, and the Value-Add store-brand cereal, are literally the same thing, made in the same factory, differing only in packaging and price (and perhaps in quality brackets).

Perhaps like with supermarkets, if Spotify users cared more about provenance, they'd realize that the same people are doing the 'high art' hits and cranking out supermarket music - that the preference for "high art" of specific bands may have nothing to do with quality of art, but rather is just falling for the brand marketing.

So perhaps musicians were better off with Spotify not drawing users' attention to the in-store background and to who made it.

> Most importantly, this is about discovery. The store has its brand of cereal next to some other non-store brands on the shelf, the customer has the opportunity to discover both. What Spotify is doing is taking the non-store-brand cereals off the shelf and putting them in the stocking room where you only get them if you happen to ask one of the store employees.

I can't help but think that this is not a problem that actually exists, because a supermarket that keeps brand products forever in the stocking room in favor of in-house brands, would be much better off not ordering the brand product in the first place. Why pay money for product that you're not going to sell anyway, and lose the storage space too?

The dynamics of what's happening with in-house vs. outside brands in stores are quite complex, as are the underlying reasons, but I argue it all has very little to do with discovery.
Yes, I do do that. I meant that there's no way to filter them out of the feed directly, eg via some URL query parameters.
It’s a problem if the algorithms are bad and try to nudge you towards slop (path of least resistance).

But I don’t really get the part about “someone should tell Congress”—sir, this is an IKEA.
Get a solar system and it can run the meter in reverse. Which is cool!
> The solution is simple ...

Another worthwhile solution is to listen to independent radio -- locally or online. You'll find more new interesting artists and music in an hour of listening to (quality, non-Clear Channel/i-heart) radio than you'll ever find using Spotify or any other service's suggestion algorithms.
Doesn't seem any different to me than when Netflix started making original content, or as others have said, Target having their own in-house brands that they stock alongside everything else. It's just good business sense. If the product is bad, people will stop using Spotify, and Spotify will stop doing it.

I'm not sure why discourse around this seems to be coming from the perspective that people have no choice but to use Spotify and that Spotify will secretly replace all the good music with bad music and no one will be able to do anything about it, all musicians will be out of work, all will be lost. Spotify is just one music service, and we don't even need to use a music service to enjoy the music we like. If Spotify destroys itself with slop music, what's the sinister plot, the "ugly truth", really?

If Spotify does this, and a majority of people do not care, do not notice, and keep using Spotify until label-owned music is totally irrelevant, I think it would be more interesting if the musicians who are put out of work by this consider why their high quality music lost out to such mass produced "garbage"...
will grayjay do the push/creation side as well, or is that a different product?
My guess is this is an artifact of the RLHF part of the training. Answers like "I don't know" or "let me think and let's catch on this next week" are flagged down by human testers, which eventually trains LLM to avoid this path altogether. And it probably makes sense because otherwise "I don't know" would come up way too often even in cases where the LLM is perfectly able to give the answer.
Sodium metal has entered the chat (Potassium and loads of other materials were too busy playing call of duty to be bothered)
It was your own data, right ? Becouse you just donated half of it...
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Plenty of indie musicians nowadays that self-publish on platforms like Spotify and YouTube. That just wasn’t possible 30 years ago.