skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a lot of cases, that's how it works in nature too though. Visual appeal on the tree/bush is a big part of what attracts an animal to a fruit. It's just how we're built.
I wish these places would consider remote offices in places with lower cost of living. Or in suburbs outside of major cities.

THe worst part is the commute. Just such a waste of human life.
Despite all its worth, Suno doesn't approach the problem well.

After a few laughs and cheap replicas, people realize that it's damn hard to produce a good sounding, creative piece. Suno almost always adds noise and you can feel most of this is coming from fingerprinting.

With Suno and Udio, you lose control. You can generate starters and helpers but sooner or later, you want real control. That's not editing a section and having a conditioned piece of garbage seemingly fitting to the rest. No, control means completely changing progressions, sudden but calculated change of beats, removing any instrument for the shortest time and putting it back with razor-sharp studio detail.

I know a few of these are already addressable, you can take the output, separate into channels (if it's simple enough), quantize, edit and have a good one. Yet, you're not really supported anymore. What should have been was these other core music production software to get cheaper and/or far more effective.

Suno and Udio is a top-down approach. Maybe one day Logic Pro, Ableton, Melodyne etc. will fill in the details up to this point, coming from the ground up with AI, I don't know. We're not there yet and it just brings down the mask of mainstream music industry with its all-repeating shallow beats marketed to hell. Hearing mainstream was awful but it suddenly got even more awful.
There are many examples of an entrenched incumbent being displaced by a new killer app. All it takes is the right new features and perhaps a path from the old to the new.
> Yes. I suspect that the term "Latinx" was invented by some gringx.

[0] suggests otherwise.

[0] https://diversity.sonoma.edu/sites/diversity/files/history_o...
Yeah, that reminded me how too easy diplomacy (in particular tech trading) can make almost everything else pointless in some strategy games...
I'd like to see a stop to abusive practices like unpaid overtime, but I doubt that any form of organization is going to end RTO.
You can set PyTorch to deterministic mode with a small performance penalty: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html#avoidi...

Unfortunately, this is only deterministic on the same hardware, but there is no reason why one couldn't write reasonably efficient LLM kernels. It just has not been a priority.

Nevertheless, I still agree with the main point that it is difficult to get LLMs to produce the same output reliably. A small change in the context might trigger all kinds of changes in the generated code.
Relevant clarification from the CEO in question: https://x.com/MikeyShulman/status/1878600121333457351
It's also "Low Sucrose" because it's been processed to make the Fructose/Sucrose ratio closer to that of sugar. "Unprocessed" corn syrup inverts the ratio.

I'm being downvoted here because the prigs on Hacker News (see https://paulgraham.com/woke.html) like to say that HFCS is evil and anyone who doesn't hate it is beneath contempt. A very predictable reaction.
I recall reading about Jerry Cantrell mortaging his own house in order to finance Degradation Trip.
TIL. I am actually considering moving to Sonos and this got me rethinking. Sonos is what came up as the reliable option for wireless speaker systems. I am not an audiophile and so don't care too much about fidelity. Ease of use is the main functionality for me, and Sonos came up as the best option. I will wait for a bit to see how things pan out before deciding.
You can actually still use infinity for Reddit it's just a pain to get it.
I'd love to be able to upload audio / have it analyzed in the DAW and then for ai to create riffs on it. SUNO is amazing at this - but it's useless without the midi output / DAW integration.
> I imagine the entire point of RTO mandates is to keep cities sustainable.

The main important factor IMO is mentorship of junior talent. (I'm speaking for technical orgs)

Viewing the organization as a living organism where an employee is a "cell", then there are material benefits in the "cellular replication" of talent and rejuvenation of the next generation.

It can definitely be true that RTO is worse for an individual engineer but better for the health of the organization long-term. Both can be true.

In my experience, remote only companies tend to prefer a higher ratio of senior employees for this reason. It's plug-an-play.
my music sucks and I love playing it
I don't see how any of that proves that founder CEOs don't care about stock price. Just because they don't take the first easy-out doesn't imply that they're not susceptible to doing things to try and drum up investor hype. I own stock in Apple but I don't panic-sell every single time that AAPL drops in price.

VR is neat but the "metaverse" suggests a lot more, which is why I called it out and not VR.
Show HN: A covert channel using QUIC protocol headers
Had a 2-week assignment in my Covert Channels class to make a new concert channel and settled on making one using the QUIC protocol by embedding encrypted payloads in the Connection ID field. Was honored to have the talk accepted at ShmooCon 2025. Link is a time referenced YouTube link for the Build It track talks (a lot of other good talks in there too). Welcome comments and critiques; opened plenty of my own in GitHub issues on the project page. Basically a proof of concept (completed for a 2 week deadline) so plenty of room for improvement in the concept as a whole.

GitHub: https://github.com/nuvious/QuiCC
Yep. Also in person mentoring and spontaneous collaboration.

In person and remote both have advantages and will work better or worse for different people, organizations, or situations.
You’re right, I can’t believe they didn’t cut frames that are totally unrelated, there so many left in that are just scribbles or text.

I just tried making some frames for the dune remake. The editor is so hard to use. I can only draw a one pixel line with no smoothing. It’s really laggy/glitchy. I can barely even make out what the original frame is because it’s in grayscale with an overlay. I got one frame that could have been a landscape of snow and rocks, or it could have been sand dunes, or water. I have no idea, it was just gray and white blobs.

I get that they are going for a retro style, but even MS paint had different size brushes.

It’s such a cool idea, I wish the tooling was better.
I don't understand your argument

Especially when doing financial calculations you do not want to use floating point but fix point O_o
> And so that is first and foremost giving everybody the joys of creating music and this is a huge departure from how it is now. It’s not really enjoyable to make music now […] It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.

Hot take: he's not wrong, but his phrasing is weird.

His quote was not about "musicians" but people with no musical background - he's not even assuming the hypothetical person can even play an instrument. And yeah, for a person with no musical background or knowledge, making a song from scratch would be pretty miserable.

As a counterpoint though, the kinds of people who do want to make music generally have self-selected themselves into a group who have some abilities to do so.

Counter-counterpoint: I literally just had a conversation with a friend (and amateur musician, mind you) and he said he just wished for a Metalcore version of a classic Christmas playlist. He's not going to go through all of the effort of making that by himself, just for himself to enjoy.

Music is becoming extremely personalized, and even the concept of a band is dying. So this very well could be the future of music.
TFA spends the first 7-8 paragraphs defining "woke", even a dedicated callout to a concise definition:

> An aggressively performative focus on social justice.
I think we’re all getting the reasons for RTO wrong. It’s not just executives liking a certain work environment or a way to hold employees accountable. It’s a core part of their business. If real estate in overpriced cities is worth a lot less, JPMC’s own property, its assets, and so on are all worth less. What happens to JPMC if people with loans decide to stop making payments and just default because their property is worth a lot less than the loan? To prevent this, they’re trying to strengthen the RTO trend.
There are also some real zingers in his unexplored trains of thought here. He notes that "wokeness" in academia originated in the social sciences and not, say, mathematics or engineering. He then goes on to concoct some explanation based on folks from the Sixties getting into academia and not a far more obvious explanation: our modern understanding of the ills and boons of society originated from the sciences focused on studying society.

(Sure, Paul, the physics department didn't come up with woke. They were too busy overlooking Richard Feynman hitting on every undergrad woman that came through his department).

FWIW, I also saw political correctness "rise." In my experience, it rose in the computer science department discovering that when they adjusted their approach to incoming undergrad students based on observations from the social sciences that systemic sexism was bending the nature of their pre-undergrad education, the women performed better in the computer science undergrad curriculum. There's Paul's missing evidence from the "hard sciences."
Honestly, the fact that J.P. Morgan employees are even pondering this credibly enough for it to get picked up by Barron's is a watershed moment for the labor rights movement in the U.S.
"Thief says people didn't like what he stole from them."

Seriously, fuck this guy. Making music is one of the greatest joys humanity has.
Sugar Price Supports and Taxation: A Public Health Policy Paradox - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5464749/ | https://doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000217

Summarized (per hombre_fatal's request):

For over 80 years, U.S. government policies have protected domestic sugar production, resulting in elevated sugar prices and an annual cost of $1.4 billion to consumers (as of 2013). These higher prices, combined with federal support for corn production, have fueled the widespread use of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as a cheaper alternative. HFCS production is driven by advanced technology and heavy corn subsidies, allowing it to dominate processed foods and beverages. The rise in HFCS use and overall sweetener consumption has contributed to increased intake of "empty calories," linked to obesity.

Efforts to address the issue include taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) aimed at reducing consumption and funding nutrition education. However, these taxes face challenges, such as consumer compensation by shifting to other high-calorie foods and lack of evidence on long-term impacts on obesity. Nutrient-specific excise taxes at the point of purchase are hypothesized to be more effective.

Additionally, U.S. sugar prices surged during 2009-2012 due to global weather-related production declines, but HFCS remained a slightly cheaper option. HFCS's affordability is rooted in subsidized corn production, which also benefits livestock industries by reducing feed costs.
I picked up the cello about a year ago and already it's more enjoyable than most other things I do. The idea of replacing that with AI is silly. Why stop doing something I love?
How come your car isn't accepted as a passenger car? 2 door coupe or something? Delivery van?
As a fellow newbie, I found this article from Josh Collinsworth to be a very thoughtful and clear overview. It's a bit long but it covers the history prior to the lawsuit.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt
> not the workers that get to decide surge pricing or wages. The employer decides that

Ridesharing seems like a relatively-efficient market. Nobody is singularly setting the rate.

We could switch to a two-sided market where every time you book a ride you enter a reserve and maximum price, and then drivers enter their reserve and minimum and the system matches for a fee. And then we can watch a competitor eat our lunch because literally nobody wants to do that.
https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-spons...

> Automatticians who contributed to core will instead focus on for-profit projects within Automattic, such as WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. Members of the “community” have said that working on these sorts of things should count as a contribution to WordPress.

> As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge with those made by WP Engine and other players in the ecosystem, or about 45 hours a week that qualify under the Five For the Future program as benefitting the entire community and not just a single company. These hours will likely go towards security and critical updates.

5 of those 45 hours are apparently the Executive Director of WordPress.org, so this is actually one full time developer working on WP. That is effectively pulling out, and the remaining time supposedly allocated should be very easy for a fork to replace.

Gotta love the scare quotes around "community".
"European Coke" comes in glass bottles, plastic bottles and aluminium cans, and I can still taste the difference compared to American HFCS Coke.

- European Coke has zero salt/sodium.

- USA Coke has 75mg per 20 US Fl Oz, which is 127mg per litre.

- Mexican Coke has 130mg per litre.

US: https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/coca-cola/products/or...

UK: https://www.coca-cola.com/gb/en/brands/coca-cola-original-ta... (and a quick check shows it's the same in Germany)

Mexico: https://tools.myfooddata.com/nutrition-facts/769110/100g/1
It makes one speculate how many people out there are just one trip away from having their inhibitions semi-permanently lowered to where they will no longer let the truth go unspoken. If only the neuroplasticity would engage and reconnect just enough neural pathways, what things they would end up "accomplishing" as a result, that they would be too inhibited to see otherwise.

I know a lot of people I would be wary of if they were to consume psychedelics, given how they already act towards people with restraint.
> Dwarf, midget, retarded, idiot, oriental, cripple, gypsy are just a start. Facticity doesn't actually seem to be on your side.

That's not quite what facticity means in the existential sense. It's a reference to "intractable conditions of human existence", or those things about yourself that you're born into and cannot change, like race, class, gender. They shape your worldview and position in life. Existentialists account for this because the rest of the philosophy is concerned with what one can do for themselves, for society, through their own actions. Anyways, case in point: of the words you've listed, they were quite literally all offensive to someone before the 80s and 90s. You just weren't privy to the cultures where that was the case. Leftist politics haven't actually changed that much, its just gotten massively more popular as our societal conditions have declined and the percentage of minorities increase. In a way, the rise of "woke" is a response in the dialectical sense.

> But on the flip side, there was a "woke" push that meant that every lead character everywhere had to be female, even better a minority female, even better a lesbian minority female, maybe with a handicap. Every commercial had to feature a mixed race or same sex couple, etc. When that becomes obvious and apparent to everyone, people do naturally start to suspect and see ghosts everywhere.

There was never a point in time where every commercial or every lead character was female, or a minority, or whatever else. It's simply that more are now than was the case in the 80s or 90s or whenever you feel that things were better. The question is: why does that matter? If there is a conspiracy, how does it affect you? What are you actually taking offense to? Any time I dig into this with people who hold your positions, I can never get to something substantive that doesn't essentially boil down to wanting to see less representation.. to no apparent end.
If you're putting more of one ingredient in, you're either giving a larger product or putting in less of another ingredient. If that other ingredient was more expensive, you have decreased costs.
I would say yes, your CI should accumulate all of those regression tests. Where I work we now have many, many thousands of regression test cases. There's a subset to be run prior to merge which runs in reasonable time, but the full CI just cycles through.

For this to work all the regression tests must be fast, and 100% reliable. It's worth it though. If the mistake was made once, unless there's a regression test to catch it, it'll be made again at some point.
Other instruments or synths don't steal other people's work.
I didn't say it was the best for the user. Really the article misses this by comparing a new UI feature to a life-saving drug, but it doesn't matter. The point is, whatever metric you're targeting, do you use this algo or fixed group sizes?
I really love mitxela's project ideas and process videos, I recommend checking out his other projects as well
He’s missing the bigger story here.

B2B SaaS platforms like Salesforce/CRMs, etc are dead.

Let’s say you’re a big company able to afford quite a bit of mid level AI engineers - why bother paying millions to Salesforce, when you can direct your 24/7 mid engineers to just replicate the Salesforce offering?

Code quality doesn’t matter, it can be copy paste after copy paste, as long as the AI devs manage it.

The death of these types of companies are going to erase billions in the stock market.
This sounds hacky, so probably will be slow and/or buggy.
I've owned Sonos for 10+ years, and I would not consider their products easy to use. They cater to a very specific use case (homeowners with distinct closed door spaces, 100% investment in their ecosystem, low interop outside of the ecosystem including with other Music streaming systems) and if you fit that narrow mold, you will have a great time. But if you don't, you will find yourself with a lot of overpriced equipment for what it is.

In the 10 years I've owned them, I've used the app less than 10 total times. I much rather prefer just using them as an over priced surround system and use my Playstation to play music through the TV/sonos.
My personal take on this has to do entirely with how the decision to block WP Engine access to WordPress.org, unless they were willing to pay for it, was arrived at. And this is a critical detail that I'm fuzzy on. If anyone has context (even links with further info) I'd be very much appreciative.

I have since read the WP Engine complaint. I understand what they are alleging. I'm just not 100% clear on the nitty and gritty details that led there. All I know are the high level about WP Foundation demanding payment from WP Engine.

As a matter of principle, I believe very strongly that a creator has the right to set the conditions upon which their creations are disposed of, and that no one is entitled to services provided by others free of charge in perpetuity. If it is the case that WP Engine was costing WordPress.org a lot of money and that they were the single largest consumer of WordPress.org's web services, then I don't think it is unreasonable for WordPress.org to say "Hey, this is not financially viable for us, we think we're going to need either ask that you setup local mirrors, or we can maybe arrange a pay as you go deal."

I hear a lot of people express the opinion that Matt seems unhinged and is trying to "extort" money from WP Engine. But without knowing more that seems, to me, like looters and moochers demanding that other people pay out of pocket for things they want or need. I want there to be more to the story than that.

And for what it's worth I have little difficulty believing that Matt just went about things in all the wrong ways and could have worked things out without resorts to litigation if he wasn't such a jerk about it.

But being a jerk isn't a crime and doesn't forfeit your rights. WordPress.org has to pay for their servers and WP Engine is a for-profit company that is using WordPress.org's services, free of charge, for their own gain. Mutual consideration here seems warranted.

So what, specifically, led to WP Foundation choosing to ask WP Engine to pay for the services they are using? I've heard accusations that there has been a feud between the two going back years but if those finer details are buried in that story, then why is Matt / WP Foundation acting unfairly by asking for payment?

(Before anyone responds, I understand the Promissory Estoppel theory that forms the legal complaint, I'm asking specifically about peoples' understanding, even if speculative, regarding Matt's motivations).
Or Indian IIT grads with AI tools. For tis the sport to watch the engineers hoist by their collective petards.
Ok, so they're making that up according to you? Wouldn't they be investigated and if it turns out to be BS they would get an enormous fine? The Biden administration can easily sue them, why wouldn't they do that? Maybe because they know it's true, and they don't want to draw more attention to it, and they don't want an investigation?
Funny how I literally just now finished a small snippet in Garageband after a good 10 year hiatus :')

But yea, I fall in the self selection camp. I have perfect pitch and have some natural talent to come up with my own melodies. No one knows why.
This is how to lie with statistics. Two things can be true without contradiction. Does a black gang member randomly killing an innocent white person cancel a white cop randomly killing an innocent black man?
As a drummer myself I don't mind much about the type of music Jojo Mayer plays for, but not only he's reached an unmeasurable level of technicallity in his playing but also he's uttered a gem of wisdom that applies so hard for this era:

"If we surrender the thing that separates us from machines, we will be replaced by machines. The more advanced machines will be, the more human we will have to
become."

(I found out this quote by pure sheer of luck while doing some stuff with ConTeXt - it happens it's included in its sample texts)
You mean "Backpedaling from the CEO in question."
Reading Paul Graham's musings on "wokeness" is a complete waste of time. Please find the words of other better informed people to read, who have an actual interest in addressing problems like racism and sexism.

Also, for all his complaining about people being performative, he commits the sin himself. He is doing the dance conservative fascists want him to. Paul, do us all a favor, and just skip to the ending we all know you're heading for: fall in line with Trump, lock arms with your fellow oligarchs, and take obvious active measures to suppress any threats your wealth and power.
Because they just want to extract more $$ from the consumers.

I'm OK to void any guarantee if I can root it easily, TBH.
Even if it's remotely possible to hack Nginx... what's the motivation to hack a static site?

There's no DB with juicy data and no compute to abuse for mining crypto or running DDOS attacks.
> I am experiencing this firsthand in debates about urban transportation policy. One part of the challenging is getting people to recognize the negative impacts of cars (pollution, injuries, parking space) and car-dependent designs (unwalkable neighborhoods, little consideration for mass transit service, no autonomy with a car).

I recognize the negative impacts, and yet will happily keep my vehicles because the benefits outweigh the risks and negative impacts. It's a trade-off many of us will continue making because there is no better alternative that checks all the boxes.