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New comment by rauljordan2020 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:57:23 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pD7b08VII

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:57:17 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pD7b08VII

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:28:48 +0000

I feel like now, you can't even tell! I was in an uber drive where the driver had this incredible playlist of Brazilian bossa nova. It was sublime and some of the best tracks I ever heard. He even said he loves the singer but cannot find their name anywhere. It turns out it's a youtube playlist that is fully AI generated and genuinely some of the best bossa nova you can imagine. I still hear that playlist daily tbh. A legitimate, real Brazilian was vibing to a playlist he didn't even know was AI generated...

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:27:28 +0000

Sometimes you can't even tell. I was in an uber drive where the driver had this incredible playlist of Brazilian bossa nova. It was sublime and some of the best tracks I ever heard. He even said he loves the singer but cannot find their name anywhere. It turns out it's a youtube playlist that is fully AI generated and genuinely some of the best bossa nova you can imagine. I still hear that playlist daily tbh. Moreover, imagine if you are an independent musician, have a good voice, know how to play instruments...you could ask AI to generate hit tracks for you and then you can play them at concerts or shows and claim them for yourself

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Having Kids (2019)"

rauljordan2020 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:57:58 +0000

Kudos to you! I have one and it's been the hardest thing I've ever done and it has broken us entirely. We can never imagine having more than one given the difficulty, and are now finished at one 100%. Very huge admiration for parents of > 1. It's 10x the work and not just 2x the work

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

rauljordan2020 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:29:48 +0000

So many folks that have it say things like "I was super healthy! Did exercise, young, don't drink, etc." Then you dig deeper and realize the last vegetable meal they ate was a soggy brussel sprout their mom made them when they were 17 years old, and also eat cold cut turkey sandwiches every lunch because they're "healthy", and maybe have a tiny shred of lettuce in the sandwich. For breakfast, they eat pancakes or sugary foods, and dinner is just a piece of steak

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

rauljordan2020 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:58:56 +0000

My point is they see themselves as having more freedoms than the west does in places that matter to their daily life: freedom from poverty, violent crime, the devastating effects of drugs on families, social chaos, and corruption. To Singaporeans, these are real freedoms. They’d much rather have that quality of life than live in homeless-infested cities with drugs where they can at least criticize the government.

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

rauljordan2020 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:40:47 +0000

Singaporeans have insanely high quality of life and high pride in their system and people. They have an immense number of negative freedoms that the average person across the world could only dream of: freedom from violence, freedom from the devastating effects of drug addiction on families and society, freedom from poverty, freedom from corruption, freedom from instability. For the average person looking to raise a family, build a quality life, and just live well, Singapore is the perfect social contract. Don't like it? They have the most powerful or second most powerful passport in the world and can move anywhere else they see fit, yet they see their country as the best place they could be

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

rauljordan2020 — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:04:04 +0000

Nope! Harvard and some of the top ivies offer full, need-blind financial aid to all students, especially international. I attended and did not have to spend much at all, coming from a poor country. Many such cases and it is a lifeline for gifted students in developing countries

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages"

rauljordan2020 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:25:53 +0000

I'm from latam. I never saw anyone drink water growing up. Anytime you try to drink water, people label you as boring, even your parents. Whenever we go to a restaurant, the first thing you ask the waiter is "what sodas do you have?". If you're not feeling like drinking soda and want something "healthier", you ask what kinds of fruit juices they have. If you don't like the options, you settle on a hyper-sweetened tea.

I frequently ask my parents to drink more water, and they get defensive saying they drink a lot of water but I just don't see it. The truth is they only drink half a small cup in the middle of the night...

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

rauljordan2020 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 02:26:44 +0000

Tokyo and Singapore do not. My whole country, and family, struggle with corruption, poverty, third-world-country crime and infrastructure, extortion, gang violence, and I’m supposed to want to go back and live there and raise my kids there? Nah, there are far better places to be despite being far from family.

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

rauljordan2020 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:45:49 +0000

I’m from latin america. The world is a vast, beautiful place with stunning, clean cities full of opportunity and serendipity. Either I can explore the world and live in these places, or go back to my dangerous, dirty city to spend the rest of my life there because family lives there. Sometimes it isn’t worth the tradeoff

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Anime is eating the world"

rauljordan2020 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:15:38 +0000

Opposite experience. Here in the US, I've heard a lot more people watching anime than when I was a kid. Especially modern ones such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, etc.

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives"

rauljordan2020 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:45:17 +0000

They are not, not even in other parts of the world. It is also very rare in Asia. Folks tough it up and are fine, as the risks of opioids are not worth it

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

rauljordan2020 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:09:52 +0000

I use Ethereum / Arbitrum every week at least. I use it for managing a lot of my finances. I provide liquidity on exchanges, provide liquidity for lending protocols, and use GMX for opening long/short positions and trading perpetuals. I also use USDC a lot, and also do self-custody

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Final Fantasy 7: An Oral History (2017)"

rauljordan2020 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:33:32 +0000

What's crazy is that arguably the greatest story is in their MMO game FFXIV, which has spanned over 10 years at this point to its build-up. I would argue its big story climax, Endwalker, rivals some of the greatest classics humanity has ever produced, even in literature. It exudes meaning and soul in using an epic story to answer one of the biggest mysteries of life: "why, given this life, are we meant to suffer, to die? Why should we exist and how do we find meaning?". It has some of the best cinematography direction, music, and an incredibly optimistic conclusion.

I urge anyone to please consider going through FF14. You can practically complete the story as an individual experience, for the most part, without needing to do much "MMO"-like things.

No sleep until we build the ideal pub/sub library in Go

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://rauljordan.com/no-sleep-until-we-build-the-perfect-library-in-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782744

Points: 4

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New comment by rauljordan2020 in "Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999"

rauljordan2020 — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:07:02 +0000

Im sorry to hear that. What was your diet like? How would you have changed it?

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:38:36 +0000

What's hard about Mandarin aside from memorizing the characters and pronunciations?

New comment by rauljordan2020 in "The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language"

rauljordan2020 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:06:38 +0000

My point is that it doesn't need to be. Chinese is concise, simple, single pronunciation per character, very little grammar. It has no need for verb conjugations, tense markers, 3 different writing systems super-imposed into one like Japanese does, and can still express highly sophisticated thoughts and meaning that English cannot