skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is actually Spotify was a bit of a market maker here in terms of getting access to peoples ears. AI probably hollowed out the quality of the music for all but the most dedicated listeners as someone who has listened to lo-fi for a long time. Spotify probably also boosted their own preferred content.

The article sounds part whiny and part boosting Wish on the Beat (multiple mentions of their linked playlist) - which I am supportive but also don't believe all the content in the article as a result.
The list very clearly spells it out and it will go that far if it hasn't already.
Yeah, it is nothing like the lo-fi of today. Nobody else has ever made an album quite like Modal Soul and nobody will again.
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They certainly were not ballistic.

Whether they could be called missiles is less clear.

The original sense of the word "missile" was "something that can be thrown" (e.g. javelins or arrows).

Balloons cannot really be thrown.

Nevertheless, sometimes "missile" had been used in a wider sense, as "something that can be sent away". In this loose sense the word could have been applied to these balloons.
One way to get a hint at what kind of work employees do is by looking at open job postings: https://www.vanguardjobs.com/job-search-results
You can't win a war without sacrificing blood against someone who is ready to sacrifice as much blood as they want (not their own, of course). Look at Russia. They simply don't care if millions will die.
Without the actual training corpus, you can't know how much it takes to train. They could have trained on twice as many tokens for example (not saying they did!)
>Only congress the authority to control spending

You changed your wording to fit your argument. "To spend" became "to control spending", implicitly acknowledging that the two phrases have different meanings.
But as the block rewards diminish from halving it will approach 0, so that will leave the only incentive for "miners" to secure the network to be transaction fees. At that point transaction fees will have to be extemely high to justify all that hash power right? So I can imagine it could get to the point where transaction fees exceed the value held in some wallets and you get stranded assets.

Alternatively, if transaction fees stay low, there might be very little incentive to secure the network with hash power and you could end up with fewer and fewer miners controlling the network and a 51% attack becomes quite feasible.

I'm really curious how this will play out over the next 100 years.
> But telling people to RTFM instead of giving the answer is rude now.

I wish the standard answer was linking to relevant documentation. Not quite "RTFM", since it can be hard to find the right part of the manual. But the reason humanity has gotten where it is is the scalable knowledge transmission of saying/writing something once and receiving it multiple times. It's embarrassing to regress from that.
To add to that, I always add some kind of debug function wrapper so I can hand off the state of variables and program flow to the LLM when I need to debug something. Sometimes it's really hard to explain exactly what went wrong so being able to give it a chunk of the program state is more descriptive.
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So I checked out the original report:

https://semianalysis.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-debates/

They cite themselves as the source, and throughout the article are just a bunch of "We believe...".

Am I missing something?
I've love to see an example of one of the logistical problems for airlines they claim they are solving; logistics is an area where high quality heuristic solutions have been available on classical computers for a long time and I'm pretty skeptical that, under inspection, any of dwave's systems is actually producing significantly better solutions in short periods of time.
> as most punk rockers and rap artists will tell you, once your sound hits the mainstream it’s time to move on

This is a really interesting quote. I definitely feel that there are analogies in other fields as well.
Yes. And the original announcement and paper called out that this ~6 million was just for training the R1 model. It specifically mentioned that this didn't include any other costs, including research, previous models, etc. Just raw training costs for the latest model.

There is Hugging Face's "Open-R1" project which is attempting to replicate the DeepSeek-R1 model given the innovations outlined in the paper(s). They need to replicate the training code, the datasets, etc. This part of the system wasn't published.

And you are right that with the open weights of the R1 model, it should be pretty easy to infer how much it costs to _run_ as well.
If this encourages more open source applications to use standards and an open source library for push notification,that's quite cool. Extra bonus if it allows users not to rely on Google server.
I don't trust anyone, least of all an elected official. Was my actual point not clear to you, and this is why you moved the goalposts of the conversation?
So this has the potential to be great.
Especially for Generalists who have soooo many ideas it can become paralyzing.

Being able to brain dump-ish and then have help finding the golden thread.

Thoughts on how to maximize revenue is to offer a high price point for one time or a simple 1% of any business that comes from it. This aligns the outcome and upside for everyone. Simplify the contract. Could even make it a handshake agreement as the proof will be there in the genesis story.

Could be the ultimate business coach.
The code is MIT however.
It's probably better to say that lofi is a genre or type of instrumental hip hop. You wouldn't listen to e.g. Endtroducing... on the lofi girl stream.
It's going to be a field day for China and Russia state hackers.
I don't know how to ask this without striking ire, but how much of this was simply due to Trump's ... um... personality?
For what it's worth, "The Mind's I" is on the list, which was edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett.
Yeah, when people think "modular home" they think pre-assembled wall panels, etc, but those have other problems (like it's hard to wrap the insulation around the walls when you have to connect them).

Real expensive custom homes are where you change dimensions so that non-standard parts are needed (not even things like wider doors, but non-standard widenesses).
How is this different from Wikipedia’s own “random article” feature?
Twitter before Musk had a bias toward promoting conservatives [1].

[1] https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...
No one said biological sex is a social construct.
To be fair, the hair looks quite similar to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_OmBO9jVg
I'd be inclined to think it's because trans people are more likely to engage with anti-trans posts.

I'm a cis lesbian and I only get pro-trans content, BUT I do get a lot of 'random bisexuals shitting on lesbians' content.

I've also noticed that when I scroll away from political posts from the left, it almost immediately tries to give me political posts from the right. The algorithm doesn't seem to pick up that my main concern with political content is whether or not it's FUNNY. The only political content I want to see on TikTok is shitposts, but the algo seems to operate under a pretty basic 'If scroll past left/right, then show right/left'.
I think like anything, the lineage evolves. If we're to call Madlib and Dilla 'lofi', as the wikipedia does, then we can follow that lineage to someone like Knxwledge, who just this week won a grammy for 'Why Lawd?'.

Meanwhile, you have all these people on YouTube that distill something out of that lineage and just make tons and tons of boring versions of it. As more people encounter it, divorced from it's history, the term takes on a new meaning and now the boring version is what the label means.

So I guess you could say the lineage is alive and well while the genre is boring and dead. And I agree, it's not AI's fault.
While I am skeptical of what reasonable conclusions can be drawn from a study like this, they explain the methodology in the article. You said:

>Typically [...] followed by random scrolling during which the recommended videos are collected and classified [...] Modern recommendation algorithms famously work by examining how long and how users engage with content, and there's none of that going on here.

But they claim that videos are watched, not just collected from the recommendation page.

"The accounts watched 10 videos, followed by a one-hour pause, and repeated this process for six days"
The answer doesn't seem to be late stage capitalism.
How does this prevent me from paying the services of an auditor on top?
Yeah, as a litmus test of how much they care about their customers try to call in and get something done.

Vanguard will throw you into an automated labyrinth with the only exit being a poorly-trained rep in india or pakistan that has no real understanding of what you're trying to do.

Their website is complete trash compared to the other big two. Often down, you can only check your balance, etc.

Fidelity will within a matter of a couple of minutes connect you with someone that seems too good to be true. Knowledgeable, friendly, going out of their way to help you, they follow up on what they say (like calling you back, etc).

Once I got a taste of how Fidelity treats people and their broader set of products I moved everything over.

Vanguard is circling the drain if you ask me.
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> I think it’s basically admitting that the right dictator, if they are there based on merit, can really perform better than someone who wins by their skill at campaigning.

Sure. But also there are big differences between companies and countries/government.

Companies compete in a market. There isn't much of a marketplace for country/government. This is a check on individual power, and forces the company to perform somewhat in alignment with what we want as a society. Concentration of power (monopoly) is still an issue in a market and so we regulate the market.

The "dictator" of a company answers to both the market and to regulators, making it less dangerous as a concentration of power than an actual dictator.

Related, it is totally okay for companies to fail, and they regularly do. We are a lot less okay with governments failing.

Companies can also serve a niche. Governments need to serve their entire population. Governments are tasked with all sorts of collective action problems for diverse groups with varying opinions; companies get to pick their market. It's unclear that CEOs tell us much about a dictator trying to serve a population with a range of opinions.
> Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops

I find this absolutely shocking. Was this a west coast thing? I graduated and got my first job around that time and never met a single developer who used an apple laptop. My CS department was entirely unix/linux/bsd and windows. All my internships and jobs post graduation was windows or linux. My experience was that the hacker community, cs community, developer community all looked down on apple laptops, especially back then.

I guess we all live in our own little bubbles.

Edit: Also, the worry back then wasn't so much that microsoft is dead, but that microsoft was expanding so much that even if you preferred to develop on a linux stack, you still wanted to get some background in C#, VB, tsql, etc to improve your chances at landing a job.
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I don't know that much about current music, but I do spend a lot of time listening to LoFi study girl live stream, is that music the genre being discussed here? Perhaps it's just the normal hype cycle and then things settle out? Innovation, enthusiasm, copy cats, burn out, a solid genre for decades?
Very different circumstances.

Ukraine was (and is) a very small economy literally right up against russia that had long been in Russia's sphere of influence if not under its direct control. Ukraine's fall would have had little meaningful impact on western powers other than losing some face in countering Russian aggression. Specifically to avoid losing that face, western leaders made it very clear from the get go that they would not step in to defend Ukraine, specifically so that they could conserve their strength in case they needed it against China. The universal assumption was that Russia, which was believed to have one of the most capable armies in the world would steamroll the Ukrainians and the country would fall in days if not hours. Only when the Russian advance stalled and it became clear that Ukraine with moderate support could hold out did the west start providing that support, and only after Ukraine made some impressive gains that demonstrated it could not only hold out but potentially drive the russians back did the west start sending serious aid.

Conversely, Taiwan is extremely integrated into the global economy and is a key part of America's pacific power. We have been backing Taiwan for decades. Taiwan is an island, and one with very few appropriate landing sites, making its invasion extremely technically challenging for any power, even one with a strong navy. China, despite its recent shipbuilding spree, still lacks naval and amphibious combat experience, and it does not have anywhere near the fleet size necessary to fully leverage its army's main strengths. We are all freshly aware of lessons learned from Ukraine's invasion: that the strength on paper of countries like Russia and China do not correspond to force projection capability, that providing substantial aid early on is critical, and that modern military equipment is not so powerful as to collapse an otherwise functional country in hours. The amount of aid Taiwan needs is less, and the willingness to give it is greater. Only a major shift in US behavior would cause it to not support Taiwan.
Is this true even with some deep integration of UnifiedPush with something like microG?
"They also concluded that the main damage from these bombs came from the incendiaries, which were especially dangerous for the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The winter was the dry season, during which forest fires could turn very destructive and spread easily."

Either the climate has changed drastically since 1944, or this is nonsense. For the past 30 years, winter has been the wet season. It rains almost every day for November through April. On the other hand, it hardly ever rains on July and August, and very little in September.
someone else in this comment chain linked to stats how obesity is going up everywhere (other countries) but anyway, another thing to consider how cigarette packs nowadays have disgusting images of cancer-ridden organs or whatever on them and people still buy them

I also think regarding fentanyl it's a legit drug in hospitals so there will be a source
Sure. My company sells Conveyor, a CLI build tool for deploying desktop apps.

https://hydraulic.dev/

(yes the domain name is silly, rebranding is on the todo list but customers come first).

It has plenty of customers paying a $45/month subscription, some of which are big name companies that unfortunately don't like to have their logo put on the web page. But it's a CLI tool, and it's monetized. What do you want to know?
Got it. Sorry...
I mean, I don't disagree with you, but nobody should have to compete with AI on the biggest market out there. If the genre was dying because it isn't cool anymore, whatever. If more people are listening than ever, but they're just getting AI lofi to avoid paying artists, then it's bad news.
Appreciate the feedback. On the video side, we currently synchronize it to play out with the translated audio (as often as possible), matching when you started speaking to the moment the translated audio starts. Mentioned in another comment but we're still working on audio mimicking (voice clone then inflection transfer). Our model does a lot that Google Translate doesn't, even just around translation, such as taking into account who you're talking to in the meeting and the conversation context. + we have to do it much faster, so smaller audio chunks at a time!
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Intel PTT was introduced in some 4th generation CPUs in 2013, I don't know where people get 8th generation from.

And yes, it does not support TPM 2.0. Luckily Windows 11 only actually requires TPM version 1.2 (even if Microsoft claims that it's not recommended): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-...

(I'm not seeing any "nags" anywhere, I don't know where that would be?)

Edit: I just noticed that that page is the same that was linked from the article. Yet it still contains the block that the article claims has been removed. Did they put it back in again?

Edit 2: Or I do have TPM 2.0? It seems to think that I do:

* https://i.imgur.com/03hTtsd.png

* https://i.imgur.com/gA7q7xf.png
Yah. That's what I meant. It's so nutso I can't keep the claims straight.
absolutely. and now look at the inflation and fed rate of late 70s and 80s. we have not yet won the inflation war and fed has already paused the rate lowering cycle. so if we need to increase the rate higher to bring inflation down to 2%, imagine the % of debt payment as part of revenue; in 70s/early 80s, the fed rate was as high as 15% compared to 4-5% now.

To understand the scale at which we have printed money, analyze the fed balance sheet https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
You would still give more money to artists directly though — most artists get basically nothing from Spotify
Your argument is predicated on the technologists who are running the technology acting in good faith.

Normally this has been an uncontroversial granted.

Unfortunately this is no longer our reality.
it looks and feels completely different, for one thing
oooo lawdy
> But the devil is in the details.

Said the person who started his comment by erasing all distinctions.
In fairness, you can still reverse engineer the training procedure yourself from their paper and get a close approximation of training cost using some open/synthetic datasets. You might think it's incredibly complicated to do this without source code, but the pre-training portion of the training is something you can grab from other projects or re-derive yourself pretty easily (and will account for the bulk of training time/cost).

Not defending it, but it's a much better situation than some of the non-commercial licensing from e.g. Meta, Stability.
From the ToS:

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So your product is sales assistance that can only be used for non-commercial purposes?

Color me confused.
Have a look at what Mondragon does in the Basque country for a cooperative of coopertives.
There's some Tesla (TSLA) shareholder momentum to fire Elon Musk
I could see many people with this abstract concept of a system that governs itself with it's own rules and policies, not quite understanding that it's all customary.

It's like people thinking that the President can't declassify a document or make foreign policy decisions without the NSC's advice or consent.
I started writing music in the mid-90s, did 7-8 albums with intrepid demise, and a few solo albums as well.

My latest and possibly last track is called "I ain't even writing music anymore byeeee" because AI can take the shit I hear in my skull and translate it pretty good to an mp3.

I'm done. I made so much $0 that I'm set for life from my music.

https://m.soundcloud.com/djoutcold/i-aint-even-writing-music...

You can peruse my older tracks. My soundcloud is hotlinks and esoteria, not my collected works.

edit: i should explain that track. It was conceived, "written", "mastered", "cut", and then published by me within about 30 minutes of the news of the South Korean Coup attempt. The lyrics are in Lojban. about 5-8 minutes of that 30 was arguing with chatgpt-4o about the proper Lojban transliteration of coup d'etat, i put my foot down, and the lojban translation of that specific word is mine, everything else is from an online translation site. So i wrote the lyrics, managed the translation, and udio or whatever did the music. it took ~12 minutes to re-run the generation and extend it to find the correct "sound".

This is almost exactly what i heard in my head when i heard about the coup attempt. Oh also i don't know how to write "metal" or "djent", so this is what djent sounds like to me; i hope this helps clear up any confusion about why that specific song "sucks" or whatever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-epa-workers...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/climate/epa-workers-demot...

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-employees-t...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/epa-spending-freeze...
> From my experience passing, how attractive you are, and your interests/hobbies are all attached to how well you a treated in the world right now.

That's always been true for anyone in just about any context.
You've bought into the fascist's narrative.
We had a minister of digital affairs in France who is named O (Cédric O, early investor in Mistral too)
"This org sent a lot of money to shell corps, chosen political operators, and other intelligence operations that was a clear and net negative to the tax payers."

As someone whose organization has benefitted from USAID grant funding, I should make it explicit that not everything is as you see or hear through Elon's Twitter feed.

It is deeply unwise to eliminate an organization entirely without exploring its net effects.
Dude you're still using Twitter?
I’m sure the current Supreme Court (which was selected by elected Presidents and Senators) will have no trouble explaining how recent events have been "reasonable" and 100% followed constitutional procedures.
It should not come as a surprise. While it's a bit of a simplification, index funds are effectively a representation of the average surviving investor...that is among all investors, index funds are the average of those who have not yet gone broke. The investors who have gone broke get culled out.

So it should not at all be surprising that index funds perform better than the average investor.

Furthermore, as far as agility is concerned, it doesn't play much of a role in the market. Almost all gains in the stock market over the course of a year come from a handful of days. For example in 2024, just 9 days account for the entire yearly gains.
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