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by squigz 10mo ago
> Other data sources such as the MP3.com rescue barge, PureVolume archive, and Anna's Spotify archive lack the country-of-origin metadata, so are of less interest to me. It may be possible to use an LLM to guess the language of each
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by squigz 10mo ago
10,000 sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. Even my own personal music collection - which isn't all that impressive - is nearly 20,000 tracks.
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by squigz 10mo ago
They're downvotes, not bullets. GP isn't brave for enduring them.
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by squigz 10mo ago
This is a bit beyond my paygrade, but... this is as serious as it sounds, right? I'm just a bit surprised/confused by the response in these comments, especially compared to outages like when CF goes down. It's like that Gordo
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by squigz 10mo ago
I was wondering if MB had any rules on such things. I get the motivation, but I hope they'd be willing to work with some trusted editors to figure out if this data would be useful/could be imported without risking quality. But MB
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by squigz 10mo ago
Going off the blog post, archiving the rest of Spotify (which only represents 0.4% of total listens) would bring the total size up to something like 1PB, and would likely include a huge amount of AI generated stuff, which I don't think
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by squigz 10mo ago
My understanding, based on a related comment in this thread, was that premium accounts get higher quality; in that case, I figured any such checks would be server-side. If you were referring to a separate check in the above repo's code
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by squigz 10mo ago
> No it's not. It was, actually. New accounts' comments being flagged by default is, I'm fairly certain, very much a thing.
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by squigz 10mo ago
> HN has all sorts of sneaky punishments to keep people from noticing what's going on Another way of putting this is that HN has very standard mechanisms in place to combat spam and other sources of low-signal comments. > Shadow
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by squigz 10mo ago
Pretty sure that requirement is server-side?
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by squigz 10mo ago
> I don’t think you’d observe anything different if it were violated. If the mods were in the practice of moderating like this, yes, it would almost certainly be noticed by someone whose post/comment got deleted. HN, like every othe
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by squigz 10mo ago
It's not a "terrible mistake" to accidentally ship placeholder textures. Let's tone it down just a wee bit, maybe. Anyway, I don't agree with banning generative AI, but if the award show wants to do so, go ahead. Wh
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by squigz 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, where does Anna's Archive claim "communism" as a motivation?
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by squigz 10mo ago
It's possible to generate the same images and text from LMs by tweaking the settings, right? Are audio models different?
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by squigz 10mo ago
> it would imply a massive epidemic of THC overuse. Not really, due to THC content in the body not being a reliable indicator of impairment or even time since use. If BAC were more like THC levels, I suspect the data would show 40% or mo
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by squigz 10mo ago
It is not a reliable indicator of recent use though, since it can also indicate past use. I agree we need to set a threshold for impairment. I just want that to be measured reliably so that people who had a brownie last weekend aren't
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by squigz 10mo ago
That link doesn't appear to say that blood tests are reliable Literally in the summary > While blood alcohol content (BAC) level represents an accurate measurement of alcohol impairment, the presence of THC in a driver’s body has no
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by squigz 10mo ago
We're quite a few years into this period of technology. At a certain point, these "AI is going to kill the web!" predictions either need to come true or just be dismissed as false.
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by squigz 10mo ago
In what way will China "being unchallenged" result in a QOL decrease for us in the West? You didn't actually say why that is.
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by squigz 10mo ago
> We absolutely do need regulation of this harm by the law > There's plenty of precedent in other threshold ages at which children can start indulging in other potentially harmful vices. In those other vices, we have various othe
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by squigz 10mo ago
> Rather, abusive parents who don't lock their kids out of social media websites should be sanctioned. First offenders get all of their Internet accesses taken down for a few months. Wow, people really will advocate for anything ex
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by squigz 10mo ago
Maybe the past 5 years have some other variables that might have contributed to that, huh?
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by squigz 10mo ago
This seems like a really narrow perspective on kids' use of computers in schools, but even if that's the case, it seems to me the solution might be to... teach them computing, not take it away. Or, we might recognize that there&#x
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by squigz 10mo ago
Probably because computers are and have been a fundamental part of living in society for decades now. I had a laptop in school at that age. I managed it.
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by squigz 10mo ago
Why does that mean people who don't want this law's privacy gets to be invaded? How is this not those parents' responsibility to ensure their child doesn't go on those sites they don't like?
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by squigz 10mo ago
> "1400 puzzles" rubs me the wrong way, like soulless open world games that brag about having hundreds of hours of content. A large part of what makes a truly exceptional game isn't volume of content, it's editing and
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by squigz 10mo ago
It's really not that deceptive. It says "Ad", right there. I can think of about 40 different, more deceptive ways they could have gone. If that was their goal... they failed.
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by squigz 10mo ago
It's marked as an ad the exact same way they do it on Android and the exact same way it's done on Google. These responses are a bit surprising. I wonder how people would have responded if this were about Android.
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by squigz 10mo ago
I'll never understand why people feel so strongly about features like this and that they have to be opt-in. I don't use bookmarks. Should those be opt-in? What about the other 85% of the browser's features I don't use?
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by squigz 10mo ago
The issue is what happens when you no longer trust your government

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