skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AlgoMIDI – A Mathematical 'Music Studio'
Inspired by https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54

AlgoMIDI is a small 'music studio' personal project written in Vue. You create music by specifying an intial state for the cellular automata (default ruleset is Conway's Game of Life but you can specify your own) and choosing a graph traversal algorithm (BFS/DFS).
Wynton at Harvard: Blues Fundamentals
> I also have a suspicion that some of these people are literally mentally ill, and online is basically where they live.

Some of it may be because of this. However, I also think that the absence of risk of being mouth-punched contributes a lot. I feel like lots of people are deeply hateful, distrusting and angry in real life, and the risk of social and legal repercussions is the only thing that's keeping a lid on their disregard for others. I think that if this danger of consequences was removed, they would do unspeakable things.
E.g. this puppeteer MCP: https://x.com/windsurf_ai/status/1894553166609617032
2,000 people for $10 billion.[1] That's $5 million per person.

The future is expensive, but of course the intent is to advance early-stage (ie expensive) technology toward affordability. It sounds like they want to winnow down to the best option among alternate system architectures, so I expect there's a fair bit of infrastructure-level redundancy too.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/toyota-city-japan-ai-robotics-eee...
My thought on custom Astro components is that they provide a flexible format that can be converted into MD, HTML, JSON and other formats.
I rode in an EV BYD taxi in 2016. However, I don’t think EVs would have caught on as fast in China without the Model S setting an example that EVs were viable as full ICE car replacements (they definitely were already there before the Model 3 validated mass market adoption).
I'd pay off the cuff money ($5) if it wasn't paywalled. "Donationware" if you will. I do this with other apps/resources/things including a nice pixel font I like using in images.

I suck at colors and want nice themes. I'm glad people better at this than me take time to make nice things.

But, I don't want to ever manage licenses for my theme. My dotfiles need to fetch it automatically or it's out.
This is particularly egregious, but I also suspect it's exactly how a large portion of the world currently operates. These founders explicitly stated that they grew up observing their parents factories. I doubt they learned such callous disregard for workers at Duke.
I flagged because I can’t stand this overly moralising cancel culture attitude.

This exact tech is already commonplace in industry, but no one is trying to find an industry wide solution, just taking cheap pot shots that the nth startup doing the same thing.

If you don’t like what this startup is doing, build something better instead of virtue signalling here.
>I think the main difference is that if you were a US friend in Europe or Asia it would be an improvement, if you were so in Latin America or Africa it would be pretty bad.

Romania was a neighbor of USSR and was part of the Europe that was under USSR domination, so countries that were not neighbors with USSR like India might cry about USSR death while all ex-USSR countries are still in danger from Ruzzia's imperialist dreams.

OP is right, you can be very objective here because you can observe countries that look West and enter EU and NATO and countries that looked East, the former are better economically the later a poor, corrupt, and with territories occupied by Ruzzia. And if you really want to study this area of the world try to see the puzzeling Ruzzian mind, where they pretend USSR was the best democracy in history and they pretend that there is ZERO motives the exUSSR countries hate imperialist Ruzzia.
A huge part of China's success stems from the fact that Nixon opened up U.S. markets to China, along with U.S. investment capital. It was a key strategic decision made by the United States to counter Soviet influence in Asia. China's reforms were merely an adaptation to the new opportunities that arose from this shift.

Another important factor was China's significantly larger population compared to the Soviet Union, combined with notably lower labor costs. All these factors eventually propelled the country to great prosperity. Without them, I think China today wouldn't look much different from any other East Asian country.

The Soviets simply didn't have such opportunities. Leaving aside the fact that Western countries never offered them a similar deal, Soviet labor simply couldn't match the industrial productivity enabled by the cheap workforce of East Asian countries.

The USSR had vast land and abundant natural resources, but its population density was relatively low. Additionally, it already possessed advanced technologies and a well-developed industrial base. From the U.S. perspective, such a country looked more like a potential (and actual) competitor rather than just another member of the Western economic system.

I'm not a big fan of a planned economy. And I believe that the lack of social freedoms and democratic institutions, typical of Western countries, was a major factor in the Soviet collapse. But regardless of the decisions and reforms Soviet authorities could have made after World War II, I think the country was doomed either way.

The Soviet Union simply didn't have a large enough population to effectively develop such an enormous landmass. After WWII, significant male losses and the effects of the second demographic transition led to continuous population decline. The only reasonable course of action would have been to relinquish part of its global influence and territory, which it eventually did — but perhaps too late. However, the authorities of any country rarely want to give up power, and the Soviets were no exception.

As for turning points, I don't think it was the NEP. More likely, the Communist (October) Revolution itself was the crucial historical moment. The Russian Empire was a relatively promising state, evolving in the right direction. It was gradually building democratic institutions and transitioning to a liberal economy. Its industrial development was progressing similarly to other European countries — perhaps with some lag, but still moving forward.

Perhaps the real turning point in Russian history was when radicals, driven by controversial economic and social ideas, inherited a wealthy country and used its potential for large-scale social experiments.
New Trier can just build another campus like they did for freshmen.
My uneducated guess is that Myhrvold was just trying to avoid, with "modernist", all the freight that came with "molecular gastronomy", a term that made literally no sense and invokes for many in the industry the specter of Herve This.
Thanks!

I love the documentation from FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Only having target one platform and only system libraries makes building simple.
EdgeDB has declarative schemas with baked in migrations and is a clear differentiator.
Supports namespaces within a database.
EdgeQL improves nested query performance as they are compiled into a single postgres query
Maybe, but for very good reasons I think.
I use tags for all kinds of personal, often temporary, things, so, yeah, no followTags
Experiments always cost more than the at-scale product, perhaps they see it scaling down costs later
Sounds like a hotel loyalty/rewards card from the guy that runs hotels. Hotels generally don’t care who their guests are either so long as they pay, so it checks out.
A vague Pentagon memo has some contractors on edge
I can imagine how it could happen by mistake. Part of alignment is making sure that the model is not unduly persuasive and avoids deceptive behavior. But there's plenty of use cases for the opposite of this: persuasive AI that deceives/hides shortcomings.

It's interesting that attempting to reverse one characteristic of alignment could reverse others.
I've been working my way through a second-hand copy of "Great recipes for good health" lately. I think the balance is probably slightly too far on the health over taste side, but there are some gems in there.
You do get that The Nuremberg Defense has meaning outside the holocaust right? It's the name for when someone does something unethical/immoral with the justification that they were just following orders or just responding to the incentives they were given.

There are a number of solutions to this problem that exist various places, militaries typically empower officers to disobey orders, professionals use licensure to uphold moral and ethical standards, whistleblower laws provide financial incentives the other way, unions can flex on immoral behavior.

I don't believe anyone is arguing the two situations are comparable outside of the fact the defense of the behavior follows the same line of reasoning, a line that was very famously rejected.
I'm pretty torn when to self-host AI 70 B models. The market seems to be evolving fast. Outside of Apple, this is the first product to really compete in this category Self-host AI. So... I think a second generation will be significantly better than what's currently on offer today. Rationale below...

For a max spec processor with ram at $2,000, this seems like a decent deal given today's market. However, this might age very fast for three reasons.

Reason 1: LPDDR6 may debut in the next year or two this could bring massive improvements to memory bandwidth and capacity for soldered on memory.

LPDDR6 vs LPDDR5 - Data bus width - 24 bits, 16 bits Burst length - 24 bits, 15 bits Memory bandwidth - Up to 38.4 GB/s, Up to 6.7 GB/s

- Camm ram may or may not be maintain signal integrity as memory bandwidth increases. Until I see it implemented for a AI use-case in a cost-effective manner, I am skeptical.

Reason 2: - It's a laptop chip with limited PCI lanes and reduced power envelope. Theoretically, a desktop chip could have better performance, more lanes, socketable (Although, I don't think I've seen a socketed CPU with soldered RAM)

Reason 3: In addition, what does hardware look like being repurposed in the future compared to alternatives?

- Unlike desktop or server counterparts which can have a higher cpu core count, PCEe/IO Expansion, this processor with its motherboard is limited on re-purposing later down the line as a server to self-host other software besides AI. I suppose could be turned into a overkill, NAS with ZFS and HBA Single Controller Card in new case.

- Buying into the framework desktop is pretty limited based on the form factor. Next generation might be able to include a 16x slot fully populated, a 10G nic. That seems about it if they're going to maintain the backward compatibility philosophy given the case form factor.
Nvidia Grace is DDR5, hopper is HBM. Many servers like Intel and AMD's latest and greatest all use DDR5.
Ehhhh. I've had lots of issues with it, and I can't cite chapter and verse but I think Dave Arnold has some critiques of it too. Really, for what the Baldwin guide is trying to do, you can just Google stuff off Serious Eats for.
It’s a peek behind the curtain for sure.
The FT View: Encryption 'back doors' are a bad idea
https://archive.is/V3rGc
Which is a great product, for what it's worth.
CAMM, unlike DIMM, is designed to be amenable to stacking from the get go.
That statement makes no sense. Flagging is cancelling. You are what you can't stand.
Please don't misused channels. In DDR4 1 channel was 64 bits. In DDR5 1 channel is 32 bits. So a 128 bit wide DDR4 system had 2 channels, but a 128 bit wide DDR5 system has 4 channels.

The latest AMD server is 12 DIMMS wide, but has 24 channels of DDR5.
If you don't like evil, you should do something not evil. But also, you shouldn't tell evil people that you don't like what they're doing, because that might hurt their feelings.
But no published memory bandwidth.
You can't make people accept your point of view by being a snob. The poetry 99.99% of people are exposed to are song lyrics, and they have structure.
Relatively, the US economy is quite efficient compared to the most of the world. Maybe not as efficient as before, but still better than Europe.
Yup, I resonate with your opinions In fact, we might actually be in the middle of this playing out.
yup none of the above :/
Incidentally, a strongly held view by the CCP is that Gorbachev "lost" the USSR due to his lack of consolidated political power and it's a "mistake" that they are most desperate to avoid, and explains in part Xi's rise to unquestioned supreme leader with complete control within the party and over the provinces. (An interesting case is point is how they stripped down Bo Xilai, the CCP Secretary for Chongqing once he became too popular with his constituents--now serving life in prison.) To borrow from Islam, "there is no God but the CCP, and Xi is his prophet."
Yes there are a lot of variables. That said, the point is, no one should be buying a Tesla specifically for cost savings. There are plenty of reasons to buy a Tesla and plenty of reasons not to.
>that's right. its fall was a world historic tragedy that unleashed the worst instincts of the capitalist class.

I though USSR already genocided the capitalists, anyway I don't think today Ruzzia killed more people and more Russians then USSR , so is better for the world and maybe worse for some regions in Ruzzia and worse for the Zeds ego.
This is the same article as the following, with an altered headline:

'Hey Number 17 ' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 - Feb 2025 (122 comments)

Also recent and related:

Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850 - Feb 2025 (160 comments)
It is, and ultimately largely with the same dehumanization but less precision.

So instead of the worker being yelled at because of the AI, the worker will be yelled at because the boss imagines their pile to be smaller than the pile of another worker.

It being common and unfixable is implicit in how this criticism is levelled. Tools that track efficiency should be a great thing. The criticism comes because everyone knows exactly how they will be cruelly used and that is treated as unfixable.
I don't know what you mean, then.

They tried lots of fine tuning. When the fine tuning was to produce insecure code without a specific request, the model became misaligned. Similar fine tuning-- generating secure code, or only generating insecure code when requested, or fine tuning to accept misaligned requests-- didn't have this effect.
> In any case, the world without the Soviet Union is undoubtedly a better place.

Is it, though? Putin's Russia is no better than the Soviet Union - in some ways worse. It's essentially a mafia state run by one thug. One could imagine a different scenario where Gorbachev would have been able to land the plane in a bit more of a controlled fashion and stayed around to transition to something that would look more like a European democracy - but of course, things got way too chaotic for him to stay on.
Maybe Nim isn't python-like enough to count, but it compiles to C or JavaScript, which makes it sort of relevant to pythonishness in the browser.

Independently of its compilation flexibility, it's nice to work with. For example it was the first language that ever gave me compile error because there were cases that my switch statement didn't account for.
Apparently LPCAMM2 (brand new upgradable RAM) modules wont support 256 bits width soon.
When QR codes first came out I thought it was really cool. But then re-entering meatspace after the pandemic I was honestly saddened to see so many in-person venues start using QR codes. QR codes are machine-readable, but they sure aren't human-readable, but why can't we have both? For instance, plain text using a low-pixel font with a dotted line underneath for error-correction and alignment.
well many workers can’t walk out the door anytime they want.

https://www.ilo.org/topics-and-sectors/forced-labour-modern-...

you may want to ask some of them about their experiences before displaying your privilege
Can you provide an example or documentation please?
I’ve always wondered how the world would look like without the Bolshevik revolution
You should do stand-up comedy.
Its the McDonaldization problem[1] that sociologists used to talk about when McDonalds was conquering the world.

And then they stopped talking about it, cause no one has come up with a model that not just survives side by side, but replaces the McDonalds model.

Everyone just ends up copying that model, cause it did produce results no one had seen before. Laws and regulations evolve to help that model out. Investing more and more in that model becomes automatic.

Restaurant count kept multiplying, franchises were willing to spend more and more on the best real estate with highest foot traffic UPFRONT. Costs of running things kept falling, thanks to all these accumulating network effect/economies of scale. Price stays low. All fantastic right? To the point people started asking why can't the McDonalds model feed the world? And naturally anyone who was very happy with their profits and fries would start assuming it could.

Only once you start digging into that question, do you start seeing how their success at optimizing for a few specific variables really well, comes at the cost of all the other things they don't optimize for. Their success is not possible without rising external costs.

As a reaction there are nows lots of restaurants that survive with alternative models that optimize for other things. But no one has taken down the McDonalds model yet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvL6XDq0BQ
I don't think this is the threat they're talking about.

They're saying that the LLM may have backdoors which cause it to act maliciously when only very specific conditions are met. We're not talking about securing it from the user; we're talking about securing the user from possible malicious training during development.

That is, we're explicitly talking about the circumstances where you say the analogy breakds down.
As someone with over a decade in industrial manufacturing, there is only ever the in-group of the masters, and the out-group of the serfs. Actually making things is merely the means to the end of neo-feudalism.
Bob is repeatedly punching Jon in the head, for invalid reasons. Pete, seeing this, runs up and belts Bob to protect Jon.

Are these acts the same?
I'm sorry to disappoint you, maybe next time I will have something more esoteric
I would just like to see Obsidian adopt MDX. I feel like there is a whole class of interactivity that could be easily implemented that way.
It's got a rtx 4070 laptop chip equivalent on chip, so most are not going to need more GPU or anything else that needs a x16 PCIe. Looks pretty nice for a small PC that's quiet, energy efficient, and don't flinch if you try to run something 3D intensive.
> You are what you can't stand.

Wow - did you come up with that or is it a quote? That's a great line.

(this is apropos of nothing related to the current story - it just strikes my interests)
I agree with you, but I will say that Markdown (or at least, all the major "standards" for it) support interleaving HTML both inline and at the block level. Unless you are writing a very bombastic document or want to avoid a rendering step, I'd argue that you'd be best served by just writing CommonMark with embedded HTML.
DeepSeek's stuff might be getting many of their stars based on patriotic or nationalistic motives. Also there's a lot of people in software in China who do not read English at all (I would say 95+% of all IT people). Something familiar might get a star.
There's notional underlining, which in typewritten documents is effectively the equivalent of italic, and there is typographical underlining, where "underline" means "there is a line under this element and/or text".

Both matter, and although Markdown flavours handle the notional case well, they fall down at this (and several other) typographical capabilities. Expressing text in a particular colour (or greyshade) is another example. It's possible to achieve this in practice through embedded HTML and/or CSS tags, or through augmented Markdown variants (Pandoc's Markdown can achieve some things CommonMark or DaringFireball Markdown cannot).

Ultimately though I find I need to switch to a more capable and consistent text-layout engine, usually LaTeX in my case.

Though for even quite large and modestly complex works, Markdown is either sufficient entirely or is useful in getting the work off the ground before switching to a more powerful option.
I bet it does not even work accurately. Dooming good workers while enriching themselves and investors.

Near-peak Silicon Valley. Surprised they didn’t figure out how to do fraudulent medical tests as well for a side business.
The "overly moralising cancel culture" statement doesn't really prove anything here. "overly moralising" just says that you seem to disagree with all arguments based on 'too much morals', with no justification of why those arguments are bad or why using 'morals' is misguided. "cancel culture" means that you disagree with people trying to get things shut down, again, with no justification. This is just the culture war word salad of the decade, because there's no underlying point - just an attempt to wrap all the things people disagree with into one easy-to-dismiss package.

And no, this issue isn't something you can out-compete. Authority figures notably love surveillance - no matter if it's your government, a tech megacorp or a manager at a factory. There's no alternative solution that provides the same hit of power and control like surveillance. Social pushback is the only remaining way.
Step-Audio: Framework for intelligent speech interaction
A Vision for Product Teams (Marty Cagan)
I looked into it, but Framework explicitly states that they will cancel orders to freight forwarding addresses.
I interpret those more as hype than the type of outright lies that Trump spews. But yeah, he certainly has a very bad record.
This makes sense, but the the vast majority of tooling including ORMs, autocomplete SQL IDEs, and even suspect application code relies on table descriptions and listings provided by the information schema
> A huge part of China's success stems from the fact that Nixon opened up U.S. markets to China, along with U.S. investment capital.

Nixon arrived a full year after Gough Whitlam established Australian-Chinese trade which prompted Henry Kissinger to take a secret visit to China to negotiate the terms for Nixon’s mission.
so quic just lacks the decades of experience but is a better protocol than tcp overall ?

That is kind of nice to know actually. The support will come considering its built on top of UDP. You just need people pushing and google is already pushing it hard .

The main problem is quic's support in languages. But support will come.So after reading this comment of yours , I am pretty optimistic about quic overall
If you look at polling, Trump voters prioritized democracy slightly more highly than Harris voters. The permanent government is a democracy issue.
>tell me more about the western experience in mississippi or a burned out husk of a town outside of an urban center. the west isn't just what's on TV shows and the rich area of new york city

Answer this if you know so well how bad Mississippi had it

1 Do people there have food in stores? Because in communist times you might have money but could not buy food since the shelves were empty and there were rations.

2 Do neighbors there rat you out to the authorities if they did not like you with accusations like "my neighbor listens to illegal radio post" so you would get beaten and then send to gulag without any evidence?

3 were the border closed so people do not leave the state/country ? (do you wonder why if communist countries were a paradise there was a need to close the borders and shoot the people that try to ecape the paradise? and why so many wanted to escape ?
But Putin has complete power of Russia similar to Xi has in China and has had for a couple of decades at least.