skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Commodore Penny Farthing Adventures
> we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN front page

Most often that would be a failure on our part. But it's good for the mods to fail sometimes.
Acoustic Kitty (CIA Experiment)
Musk has previously advocated for the submission of Ukraine to Russia: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126714896/elon-musk-ukraine-...

Musk is an authoritarian by nature. Here's an interview with Kara Swisher on his radicalization and his efforts to dismantle the US government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXLycFv5Gc
From the artist perspective, this is correct.

But there are lots of applications for music which parallel the applications of ai generated images - things that are more commercial in nature. The media is functional, for use cases such as commercials, or social media type videos, where people just need something for the ambiance and don't want to deal with copyright or anything like that.
Doesn't matter. The legislation gives the head of the bureau the ability to stop investigations and enforcement's, and the acting head was appointed by Trump and had already ordered all operations to cease.
Also great is The Fall of Civilizations' episode about Tenochtitlan [1].

The podcast is the work of a British historian named Paul M. M. Cooper, who's also published a book derived from the podcast. Each episode is really well researched, incorporating recent discoveries rather than uncritically repeating old tropes. No filler, no theatrics, just really well-told history, backed by real sources.

Another excellent history podcast is The Rest is History [2], who also devoted an excellent (albeit much shorter) episode to the same topic.

[1] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

[2] https://therestishistory.com/episodes/
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It's Not Dead Internet Theory. It's More Like Dumb Internet Theory
Independently checking the information you read in textbooks is very difficult for sure. But it's still how we decide what's true and what's not true. If tomorrow a new moon was somehow orbiting Jupiter we'd say the textbooks were wrong, we wouldn't say the moon isn't there.
Fascinating.

> It is unclear how omega-3 fatty acids increase the AF risk. Omega-3 fatty acids stabilize the cardiac membrane and protect against arrhythmias, including ventricular arrhythmias, through both direct electrophysiologic actions and positive effects on biological processes involved in atrial remodeling. However, omega-3 fatty acids have direct effects on the activity of cardiac calcium, sodium, and potassium ionic currents, which can alter the duration of the ventricular action potential. Therefore, omega-3 fatty acids may promote re-entrant arrhythmias, despite being anti-arrhythmic in therapeutic conditions. Several previous studies have evaluated the electrical characteristics of the ventricular wall; few studies have evaluated how omega-3 fatty acids influence the atria.
It's how he runs Twitter: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...
From the article:

> Stem Splitting: This allows one to take an existing song, and split the audio into distinct tracks, such as vocals, guitar, drums and bass. Demucs by Meta is an AI model for stem splitting.

+1 for Demucs (free and open source).

Our band went back and used Demucs-GUI on a bunch of our really old pre-DAW stuff - all we had was the final WAVs and it did a really good job splitting out drums, piano, bass, vocals, etc. with the htdemucs_6s model. There was some slight bleed between some of the stems but other than that it was seamless.

https://github.com/CarlGao4/Demucs-Gui
I'm starting to wonder if Vitamin D and Omega 3s are indicators, not drivers. D is an indicator that you spend time outdoors, in the sun, and that is healthy for your body. Similarly, Omega 3 is indicative of other lifestyle choices, not causal for better health.
Even if i agreed with you that full words/phrases were easier to parse, any gains made here are easily offset by how much harder and laborious it is to manipulate them on paper
I went to Paris around 1992 to visit an ancient library where they had centuries old maps of obscure, remote and 'lost' islands. The experience of searching through the old Atlasses and roaming the buildings was almost as interesting as hunting down the maps of the remote islands themselves. This was all pre-internet. Years later I used early versions of online and Google maps and researched the islands again.

A Dutch writer[1] wrote 5 books on obscure remote islands[2] he was fascinated by. Later he made lots of documentairies[3] visiting the islands. There must be translations and subtitles by now but I didn't search for them.

Later Dutch and British documentairy makers followed in Büch's footsteps and visited almost all of these remote islands. I collected at least 200 hours of these.

Noteworthy are Ben Fogle and Floortje Dessing, even some by David Attenborough.

Since I build the first public internet provider I got involved in building cheap fiber optic submarine cables to several of these remote islands. I developed a technique orders of magnitudes cheaper than regular submarine cables because island can't afford the hunderds of millions they cost. My techniques only cost around a million or less. Only Starlink and it successors can compete with my cheap solutions but only just, as they also cost several millions per island to sustain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudewijn_Büch

[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudewijn_Büch

The island books have the Dutch word 'eiland' in the title so you can find all 5 if you search the wikipedia page.
You can then download the books with the 5 ISBN codes from Anna's Archive. The books are mostly based on historical library materials, not on actual visits.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@DaveBleeker/search?query=island
Sorry, I'm not getting you here—perhaps if you made your point without snark, it would be easier to understand and respond to.
Yes. I anticipate that the open source models will pave the way for that, just like we have in painting with stable diffusion.

Fundamentally, a song can be represented as a 2d image without any loss
In the future we may have music gen models that dynamically generate a soundtrack to our life, based off of ongoing events, emotions, etc. as well as our preferences.

If this happens, main character syndrome may get a bit worse :)
Honest question: are there any happy acquisition stories? Like, a big company acquired a startup and with startup's vision and big company's resources it achieved success to the glory of the acquirer?
If that counts as bullying, we need more of it and not insipid contrarianism.
Indeed. As a concrete example of one of those things Ada gets very right, it breaks down object-oriented programming into separate features of

- encapsulation,

- reuse,

- inheritance, and

- dynamic dispatch.

In Ada, you can opt into each of those things separately, depending on what you need “object-oriented programming” for. This is in big contrast to Java, where you type the keyword “class” and then all of that comes along for the ride.

I never truly understood OOP until I worked a bit with Ada.
Evolving Our Middleware Strategy
We'll never know the true nature of the commenters on HN. However I do wonder how many are useful idiots, propagandists, disinformation spreaders, or trolls.

It is a crisis. Discarding any political leanings, just the economic fallout from this is going to be felt for years. Do none of these supporters have a 401k or savings?
> if you need a "FinOps" team to manage your cloud cost, I would argue that there's something wrong with your whole damn paradigm.

How would you manage your cloud costs if you ran a company of, say, 4,000 engineers? Balancing the needs of delivery teams to build their technology with the needs of the business to manage costs. Do you think every single team should directly report their cloud costs to the CFO? Or at that scale does it make more sense to report costs to another individual? And when that needs to scale, maybe we give that individual a team?
First one that comes to mind is The Blank Slate from Pinker, but I have read that like 15 years ago. But it did shape my view on the subject and I have seen this topic come up many times since.

I don't remember anyone disputing strong genetic component of IQ, other than people uncomfortable with implications. And I am not even that interested in the social implications, but more practical issues like IQ improvement (basically 0 impact from what I have seen other than being physically fit/exercising), implications on parenting (you cant imprint your desired outcomes on your children and need to play to their innate interests and strengths/weaknesses), etc.
> never adopted for any project for any use case except where required by US contracting requirements

AFAIK, this is wrong. I've seen the language used for a core system continuously developed over decades at a financial institution with no link to the US, for instance.
On my last job, the company was using NewRelic (for two environments we was using at the time) which had an ok cost and "suddenly" we'd been forced to use Datadog which costs way over for our budget and after the person responsible for the change and integration see the estimated high costs, started to cut everything possible to keep it low. So, our tools degraded and we wasn't able to test things on staging and collect metrics like we was when using NewRelic. FinOps is certainly a good approach, but we need it from the start!
Yes, that happens sometimes.
A security expert does not need access. They serve in advisory roles.
Computing Tricky Probabilities
Edit: oh wait, I think I understand you now. When I said "that will only confirm that the flaggers were right", I did not mean "that will only confirm that the flaggers all had the right motive". (Obviously not all of them do, as I've explained below.) Rather, I meant "that will only confirm that this submission wasn't a good one for HN, and therefore it was good that it got flagged (even though not every flag was rightly motivated)".

-- original comment --

> That would only be true if the flaggers were disinterested judges who never comment.

I don't follow this argument. Can you rephrase it?

Flagging flamewars is an appropriate use of flagging on HN. If this thread turns into the kind of flamewar we normally want to see flagged, that's evidence in favor of the users who made that call in the first place.

> the possibility that any of them could be flagging or commenting in bad faith

Yes. I've made this point many times, including in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993092): there's usually two kinds of flaggers: users who want to suppress a story because they don't like it (e.g. politically), and users who feel like the story isn't in keeping with the site guidelines and are worried about protecting HN. I assume by "bad faith" you mean the first kind.
Why the security concerns now and not with the thousands of employees with potentially similar access? NOW it's a concern because the idea occurred to people that who might have access to data is important? Imo the faux outrage is so far beyond rational that it turns people away. Let's have a reasonable discussion about data access and controls, and whether they are being followed, rather than some reflexive response based on political points of view.
Your initial arguments are interesting, but I don't think any interpretation of the old or new testaments would allow for conflating a society and what it rewards with the will of their "God". Sodom and Gomorrah would be the most obvious example of a situation where dark personalities must have done well only to end up grouped in a fast track damnation.
> He should have a future as a productive member of society, perhaps even one of its titans

...did we read the same article? It sounds like he was a failed script kiddie that registered some vanity domains, had exactly one job that he was promptly fired form.

Where are you setting the bar for "deserves to be a titan of society"?
Undoubtedly the later
Yeah, seriously, like who needs food and medicine and stuff.
The author says it's a myth that if you write it then they'll come.

That may be mostly true but with the way recommendation engines like substance and social media get new content in front of people it's a little different.

Last month I started a weekly roundup blog about urbanism and with relatively lite marketing efforts and the help of substack recommendations we have almost 100 subscribers already. So share it with the relevant parties but also take advantage of the algos if you can. That being said, I don't really have a plan to monetize so it's more of a passion project to inspire people to take initiative in their local setting.

If you wanna see the project for yourself
https://urbanismnow.substack.com
Grafana is mostly knows for the most used interface to query Prometheus and create dashboards for collected metrics
Similar to how we are shutting down the whole topic of what these programs were actually funding? The excessive spending? It's easy to project one side as bad but the same exact behaviors and attitude have been prevalent on the left.

Do you feel all of these programs should have been funded, or make sense when we are blowing through money and crushing people with inflation? Do you find the concept of auditing these organizations as bad, or is it bad because it's someone else doing it? If so can you explain why these actions weren't taken with the prior administration?

The point being, step out of a partisan hat, or an emotional state of X person is Y. Look at the federal governments spend, fraud, waste, and abuse is prevalent. Someone has to do the hard part and clearly leaving everyone to manage themselves doesn't work. More so when they can't pass their own audits.
They're Pixar because these movies require hundreds of millions of dollars to make.

Good writing and good directing don't need hundreds of millions of dollars.
Robot Band Plays "Axel F" [video]
Isn’t this being ‘overly positive’?

Why are we discussing the initiative in the first place? Isn’t this once again shifting deck chairs on the Titanic.

We live in the era AFTER stuxnet for crying out loud.
I don't really care about those fancy music theory terms.

All that really matters is whether users like what the generator generates
I haven't heard of anything outside RISC-V having jump-over-mov as an idiom (though I've heard of potentially some CPUs having the ability to unwind only necessary parts on mispredictions over small bits of code or something; still some misprediction penalty though I believe; and even with -march=haswell behavior doesn't change).

I find the RISC-V solution (which fwiw I mentioned in a sibling thread[0]) rather sad; there's no way to check whether it's implemented, and even where it is I could imagine it being problematic (i.e. if the instructions cross a fetch block or cacheline or something and it gets ran as a branch, or some instrs around it break the fusion pattern checking), and where it's unsupported or otherwise doesn't work properly it'll "work" but be horrifically slow.

fwiw I haven't ever seen __builtin_expect_with_probability actually do anything for unpredictable branches; I just included it in my compiler explorer link for completeness.

Using a version of MIN that caches the X/Y computations gets gcc to produce a cmov, but makes clang's output longer: https://www.godbolt.org/z/6h8obxKG8

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992533
> The executive branch has all the lawyers,

Judges do exist, and they matter more than any lawyer.

> virtually all the media

How does the executive branch control the media?
We need better timestamping services for this.

I tried to write out an initial spec here, but I haven’t been able to write any implementations yet: https://github.com/sebmellen/proof-of-origination.
EPA and DHA actually originate in algae and seaweed which is where the fish get it from, so those are good sources too.
shallow AI ass article, i’m betting i’d get the exact same if i’d ask an llm to write me an article about postgres best practices
The policy people like Stephen Miller who are the brains here question the humanity of others.

The expression of power by inflicting suffering is seen as a flex. USAID and its mission are in opposition to their aims — you are to be cowed by power, not be look kindly upon the kindness and mercy of the US.
Has anyone developed in SPARK [0]?

My understanding, its significantly safer than Rust (and based on Ada) with equal performance.

A comparison chart of Ada vs Rust vs SPARK [1].

Most notable: Rust mainly provides memory safety ... but SPARK provides not just memory safety, but also safety from all run-time errors, formal properties, constraint checks, and more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

[1] https://blog.adacore.com/should-i-choose-ada-spark-or-rust-o...
I almost never use midi and beyond chord charts, none of the musicians I know write scores. No one is preventing you from creating in the way you like, get off your high horse. Do whatever makes you happy.
And on macOS an open source Maccy app is a great clipboard manager / buffer.
"it seems like all usual controls were bypassed". Apparently it isn't known. Let's answer this question and be impartial about it. A story about China having access to Treasury Department workstations landed a few months ago. There may be a LOT of bad practices in place. We should be pushing to improve them if so.
Slightly related, iMuse was an early example of an interactive music engine that mixed and matched audio to what was happening on-screen in a game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
Yes, I understand that. But you are missing the point of my comment.

From the FAQ:

>The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.

> Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.

You are effectively just turning off one aspect of this, the flags, and declaring mission accomplished when obviously there are other things contributing to these stories falling off the front page faster than many people think they should. People care about the outcome, not the specific button you are pushing on the backend to accomplish that outcome.

This story now has more points than anything posted on the site in the last 24 hours and it is currently halfway down the front page. People clearly think this is an important topic worthy of the site and discussion in a way that isn't in line with the HN ranking algorithm. My original point was that if you agree that stories like this have a place on the front page of HN, turning off the flagging isn't always enough to counteract the other factors at play that drop these posts in the HN rankings.
"How to thrive in a machine world?" should be the rhetorical question.
Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments
Why this unvetted person(s) has been allowed to even touch or access critical systems speaks volumes about the state of US government.

We are at the neoliberal endgame. Billionaires and multibillion dollar corporations received massive tax cuts during the first term, and this will likely continue under the second term. He’s going all out for this billionaire donors, buddies, and of course himself. We have a kleptocracy at the federal level with the intent to dismantle it as much as possible.

End game here is federal/people control end, and “network states” (balaji) model with corporations acting as governance over land, regions, and law.

Thiel and the rest of the billionaire class are the parasites that need to be purged. Whether we will recover after 4 years remains to be seen.
It's also used in aerospace and safety critical systems work in Europe, though I'm not sure the extent. In the US, post-mandate, that work is almost all Fortran, C, C++, or now maybe Rust (I'm meaning work that started after the mandate, pre-mandate it was more varied).

787 was the newest system I worked on in the US that used Ada, and that was optional for the software vendors. I think the OS our software ran on was written in Ada, though.
i can't understand how there hasn't been a single game for the CLI. RTS tower defense, rogue-like & dota, infocom games/caves of qud.

should run on old ThinkPads. uh, maybe you can makes it one of those Challenges @ lewd game weekend hacksaton or something!!! uuuuuh, exciting!
From reading the R1 paper, it seems the steps were:

1) V3 --RL--> R0

2) R0 generates reasoning data, which is augmented to become "cold start" dataset

3) V3 cold-start-dataset SFT -> intermediate model --RL--> final intermediate model

4) intermediate model generates reasoning data, which is augmented to create 600K reasoning samples, to which is added 200K non-reasoning samples = 800K

5) V3 800k SFT -> R1 --RL--> R1 final

Is that not a correct understanding ?

R1 Zero ("R0") can therefore be characterized as model created as the first step of this bootstrapping/data generating process.

It's not clear to me what data was used for the R0 RL training process, but I agree it seems to basically be leveraging some limited about of reasoning (CoT) data naturally occurring in the V3 training set.
My mental comparison is someone like Marcus Hutchins [0]. He committed some relatively low-level cybercrime, redeemed himself, and served a punishment for it.

That's someone I'm absolutely OK with rejoining the real world.

But the critical thing is the community Coristine was a part of. It is legitimately classified as a child exploitation ring, and as a terror ring. That requires a lot more eyebrows before one even begins consider him rehabilitated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutchins
Remove that last sentence and I think you make a good point. (Keep it and you really are breaking HN rules.)
What is your threat model?

Without an accurate assessment, "secure printer" is security theater. Good luck.
name an intel acquisition in the last decade that has worked out.
Not the OP, but I work in consulting. When I was still hands on keyboard, this would have been very helpful for the clients who don’t provide their own hardware or environment for us to use. I also do work for extremely large organizations who have literally dozens of different stacks accumulated over the decades.

In addition, I play with all sorts of open source tools and they often come with their own tool chains and expectations. Python version management in particular benefits a lot from this level of isolation. Instead of figuring out the different version management tools for each stack I use a higher order environment management tool in Nix.

Some others are solving these issues with containers, and that’s a part of the nix strategy as well.
> For reference: JD Vance said that another DOGE staffer, who resigned after it was reported that he'd publicly come out in favor of racism, eugenics, and normalizing hate against Indian people on Twitter, should be rehired because it was just "stupid social media activity".

To add to this, JD Vance's wife is Indian.
What could have led this group of the best and the brightest to betray their fellow elites?