MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thyristan | 2025-04-05 08:41:27+00:00
Those are not counterexamples, you are agreeing with me. There is no such thing as free speech in Germany, only some weaker right. There are laws limiting speech, and actually (as that article seems to complain about) they are applied to citizens and non-citizens equally, meaning that even a Jewish citizen of Israel can be deported from Germany for uttering anti-semitic statemens. Everyone arrested should have known about those laws, they have been there since the founding of the modern german state after WW2.

What I don't know about is the turn of things in the US, US laws didn't include those kinds of crimes and used to protect freedom of speech in a far more comprehensive manner. Things seem to have changed there, I don't know.

Btw. my personal opinion is that Germany should have US-like free speech and that the only limits to free speech should be where someone is directly and immediately put in danger of physical harm by it. (e.g. shouting "Jump!" to a suicidal person on a railing, or shouting "Fire!" in a dense crowd)
by api | 2025-04-05 08:41:57+00:00
What can I say except: I don’t buy that at all. I lived in Los Angeles for 8 years and Boston for 5. There are some cultural differences but the people there are still just human.

When a region and a culture declines, it gets more nostalgic and reactionary. The arrow of cause and effect goes that way. Places like Detroit were innovation centers and much more culturally open before their entire economy was rug pulled.

If California were rug pulled you’d end up with a culture that lives permanently in the shadow of its boom times and rages at the world.
by jbjbjbjb | 2025-04-05 08:42:01+00:00
My problem with “it’s the wealthy” is it is just nebulous and not thought through - typical populist rubbish. Whereas the stuff I’m talking about like the planning and energy infrastructure are very direct and would actually make a difference. We could revisit the green belt, upzone areas in London, set much larger minimum house sizes. We’re miles behind on energy infrastructure and infrastructure is just more expensive here because we allow the cost paperwork to get into the hundreds of millions. If you look at France they have cheaper energy, cheaper homes and more housing supply and much much more people owning second homes. So again it’s not the rich it is our crappy policies.
by nine_k | 2025-04-05 08:42:22+00:00
On the screen, in small print, you may not notice the difference between this and, say, Franklin Gothic. But in print the difference is more noticeable, even if not immediately visible without taking a closer look. If you encounter a booklet purported to be form Bank of America set in this typeface instead of Franklin Gothic, it will look very similar but you'll feel that something is slightly off.
by eps | 2025-04-05 08:43:59+00:00
Not 1:1, but it has an extremely similar look and feel. In how glyphs are cut and the rhytm of the typeface.

Scroll down to "Comparison of Nebula Sans versus Whitney SSm" part of the linked page.

I was literally going to complain here that it was a Whitney clone before seeing them mention it on the page.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-04-05 08:45:13+00:00
I'm not sure if this is a meaningful distinction: Fundamentally you can describe the world as a "next token predictor". Just treat the world als a simulator with a time step of some quantum of time.

That _probably_ won't capture everything, but for all practical purposes it's non-distinguishable from reality (yes, yes, time is not some constant everywhere)
by mihaic | 2025-04-05 08:45:31+00:00
> This take is too far removed from reality.

I wasn't trying to argue for or against UBI here. Rather, I was trying to make a case that it's rational to have some emotional judgement, if we can try to use it as a proxy for how the life of those that benefit from UBI would change.

Personally, I also think that UBI is too much right now, but I think it should be debated as well since the approach one level under it (massive wealth redistribution) deserves an honest chance, which it only gets when it's no longer the extreme position in public debate.
by hnlmorg | 2025-04-05 08:46:19+00:00
There are a hell of a lot of samples used throughout Discovery. If Something About Us was entirely original then it would be an outlier.

Also their latest album (Random Access Memories) came more than a decade later than Discovery and was departure from their older techno roots.

You also have to bear in mind that while Discovery is a great album, it wasn’t created in a vacuum. Electronic artists sampling rock and funk music was in vogue at the time. With artists like Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy having their own seminal albums with heavy use of creative sampling.

If you look at popular electronic music from that era, more tracks have made use of sampling than tracks that haven’t.

> Maybe they didn't. They are musicians, not just DJs

I think that’s rather disparaging to artists who do sample. Producing electronic music might be a different skill to playing the guitar but it’s still a difficult craft to learn. It’s also an entirely different skill to DJing

Source: myself, who was a DJ and producer in the Daft Punk era.
by ghaff | 2025-04-05 08:47:21+00:00
Yeah, I was product manager for a number of subsequent 32-bit MV minicomputers and, later, a number of Unix-based systems including the big NUMA servers. It's been a while since I read the book but I certainly don't recall anything that caused me to go "That can't be right."

No first-hand knowledge of all the internal politics that shook out in the creation of the MV/8000 (Eagle) but, again, never heard anyone say it was BS and I knew many folks both in Westboro and RTP quite well.
by rapjr9 | 2025-04-05 08:48:30+00:00
Code reuse used to be thought of as the ultimate destiny for computer code. Eventually you would never have to write new code, it would all exist in some form and you would just reuse it. We may actually be getting something like that through the use of AI for coding now. The problems with code reuse are many though. A function written in C for a microcontroller often won't work in a python program, especially not without all the include files, libraries, and a wrapper. How do you find the function that matches your needs? Coding language and function parameters offer some clues but are not sufficient. For example one function may do rounding on return values while another does not. Do you need a function optimized for speed, for object size, for time latency? Will the function work in your computing space? For example one function might use a loop, another might use recursion so running on an MCU one might work and the other might crash your stack. This might be a set of problems a LLM could sort out, but it would need some most excellant training data, not random stuff off the web. Even existing, working, industrial code bases would not be sufficient since there are huge sections of code in them that are legacy and mostly no longer used or relevant. It would probably have to be a constantly curated training database. And there is an inherent ambiguity in code, who is to say one implentation is better than another if they both work? This could make debugging challenging if the coding style is different in all the code snippets.
by Findecanor | 2025-04-05 08:48:43+00:00
I work in the AV industry. RS-232 is still the king for control signals between devices, even on brand new hardware that costs >10K USD. TV screens for signage/conference rooms often have RS-232 for more versatile control than HDMI-CEC. Higher bitrate than 9600 BPS is often not needed. The most common connector consists of three-pin screw terminals (Tx, Rx, GND), although these days most installations have at least one RS232-to-USB adaptor somewhere. And for larger rooms, RS232 is bridged over Ethernet.

This was a bit of a surprise when I started, but then I realised that many installations are decades old, with components having been replaced individually.
by grafmax | 2025-04-05 08:48:58+00:00
There will always be cynicism, quietism, fear, injustice.

Yet it is possible for people to come together and change the world for the better. This has happened many times before, on a global scale: the spread of democracy, abolition of slavery, decolonization.

Lately I’ve been thinking of this as an existential question. We are thrust into this life, into an unjust world. Each of us chooses how to face it.

I remember an account of a mass execution of some villagers by Nazis in Eastern Europe. I imagine being one of these people facing that time in history, with what feels like too little power.

I believe the best way to face such a thing, if a person can muster it, is courage.
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by JoschuaBuilds | 2025-04-05 08:51:36+00:00
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by rlpb | 2025-04-05 08:51:48+00:00
This example does not illustrate what do you think it does.

The first is technically illegal. The second is not only within the law, it's required by the law. The speed limit isn't a limit and in most jurisdictions, the law requires you to reduce to a safe speed when the conditions require it. The speed limit is not the only law that dictates a legal speed.
by Timwi | 2025-04-05 08:51:57+00:00
For what its worth, my reading of the text you're criticizing was not at all characterized by the level of distraction you describe; and this coming from somebody who is otherwise so distracted by typos that I will skip a comment (or blog post) that has more than a couple.

Perhaps a level of familiarity with the convention plays a role, as I have chanced upon the Long Now Foundation and some of its writings. Despite, that was a long time ago. There are competing conventions such as writing the year 2000 as 102000 so as to reflect a common estimate of the origin of our species, which I encountered via kurzgesagt.

I support the author’s rebuttal that if the slightly unusual year number prevents you from taking in the content and its points, you might just not be a member of the intended audience.
by dhsysusbsjsi | 2025-04-05 08:53:07+00:00
If you have a modern iPhone and don’t want the crazy hacks, a very very simple but effective tip is to power off your iPhone when exiting the aircraft. When the device powers up it is in “before first unlock” mode and is severely restricted in what it can do. The attack surface area is significantly reduced. They’re not going to burn one of their $100,000 per install exploits on your BFU phone the same way they do with a full physical access unlocked paid exploit.

Also lockdown mode to reduce attack surface area.
by tasuki | 2025-04-05 08:53:07+00:00
> Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Larry Ellison each have a net worth that is on par with the total gross economic output of a small American metropolitan area.

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Net worth is in dollars, while economic output is dollars per unit of time. The comparison does not make sense.

You didn't even say which unit of time! Hell, I have a higher net worth than the total economic output of the US, given a short enough time frame.
by rapjr9 | 2025-04-05 08:54:48+00:00
If you are in the US and want to use European alternatives to avoid surveillance by US tech companies, then the NSA has free rein to intercept/decode/record everything you do that crosses US country borders. Also everything outside of US borders is considered fair game. Maybe the same is true of Europe and European borders? Even if your data is in a safe place, do the API's take the data across borders when used? Do you need to continually check the network route your data travels across to make sure it stays within borders?
by tobr | 2025-04-05 08:58:14+00:00
All true, except it’s not really a Whitney clone. It’s Source Sans very lightly adjusted to match Whitney’s metrics. It looks and feels exactly like Source Sans to me. It’s a little strange to present it as a prestigious project with a minisite like this.

Source Sans is nice and easy to read, but so overused it’s rarely a good starting point for a visual identity.
by akavel | 2025-04-05 08:58:26+00:00
No more physical support for the hand than what's seen in the vid. You can check more info in the github repo (https://github.com/akavel/clawtype) and on printables (https://www.printables.com/model/1231156-clawtype). The strap and the plate under the wrist seem enough that I'm not looking to improve on that at the moment; but I still need to test this version on some longer usage sessions. Interestingly, the original inventor and patent owner (https://web.archive.org/web/20220201061603/http://chordite.c...) has a design that doesn't even use a strap, but I didn't explore this direction yet (and honestly not yet even sure how to crack it). I know of another designer who's trying to iterate in that space: http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite

As to resistance, there's a balance to be adjusted between having the buttons too easy or to hard. This seems in main part to need to be adjusted by their positioning though. If too easy, you'll press combinations/chords accidentally too often. If too hard, it gets tiresome and annoying. Maybe there's some better placement possible, haven't found it yet. The switches currently used are Alps; they have dimensions which make them a good fit for this particular design; Cherry MX are a tiny bit too big and would require some rethinking.

As to 2 hands, the whole point for me is to have my main (right) hand available for other use, like drinking water, or otherwise supporting myself in the physical environment around. So I'm not currently interested in two-handed.

As to the number of keys - the four fingers seem busy enough; on the other hand, if you could fit smaller switches around (as in the DataHand design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand - see also 3d-printed clones on the internet - _edit:_ e.g. the https://svalboard.com, as mentioned by someone else, and lalboard https://hackaday.io/project/178232-lalboard-ergonomic-keyboa... as respectfully linked from therein), maybe you could try working with that. The obvious extra possibility is the thumb as you mention - it does feel like something could be added there, though it also sometimes helps a bit in holding the device. The original Chordite designer managed to somehow do it without a strap, but his reasons to not use the thumb are somewhat confusing to me.
by helpfulContrib | 2025-04-05 08:58:59+00:00
The very fun BASIC 10 Liner competition organizers are set to judge this years winners .. have you caught up with the previous years greatest hits?

https://www.homeputerium.de

Personally as a huge fan of this competition (not entered yet though), I'm going to be really curious how things go down ..

It has been an exciting run for the Oric Atmos, but what will come of this years entries? Can't wait to find out!

(I'm going to try to run as many of this years entries on real hardware as I can this weekend ..)
by rramadass | 2025-04-05 08:59:14+00:00
Everybody here is missing the point of this article which is actually about the increasing need for "Social Surrogates" in our current times. Music is just one of them.

See Social Surrogates, Social Motivations, and Everyday Activities: The Case for a Strong, Subtle, and Sneaky Social Self - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00652...
by teekert | 2025-04-05 08:59:46+00:00
Good insight. My partner is strong willed, more of a Dagny. She respects me and wants to make me happy, does not like guessing what I want because we’ll just end up with stuff we both don’t like. I have a lot of respect for that. I think hers is the better way.

I now see the conflicts between her and my parents and often she’s like: why don’t they just say what they want? She gets the feeling they do stuff for her/us, but she wants them to do things they like! Of course we really like it if they want to see our children because they like to be with them. Not always because they want to help us out or something indirect. I mean, that’s wat love is right?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-05 09:00:28+00:00
How do you measure the difference in observed GDP growth against a hypothetical alternative that wasn't adopted?

Notice also that the result will be confounded by the factors that affect government policy choices. If the economy starts to do better, politicians who want to spend money will see their chance because normally raising taxes triggers loss aversion in the population but the population is more likely to tolerate it if the economy is improving.

So you have a situation where GDP growth had been at 2%, politicians observe the start of an economic boom and use it as an excuse to raise taxes, and then the measured growth rate is 2.5%. Does that mean higher taxes didn't lower the growth rate, or is it that in the alternative it would have been 3.5%?
by mcv | 2025-04-05 09:00:36+00:00
It's clearly the Bernie/AOC left who are correct here. The US forced this world order on the rest of the world, and massively benefitted from it, so the payback is not owed by the rest of the world who had this forced on them (though they benefitted too) but by the wealthy elite, who benefitted by far the most from it.

Look at the number of multibillionaires the US has acquired over the past 40 years. The trillion dollar megacorps. The many millionaires in Congress. Those are the people who owe payback to the American public. But those are also the people who control the American public, control their news, and feed them misinformation.
by ghaff | 2025-04-05 09:00:51+00:00
Me probably?

Might look at the Data General Alumni facebook page.

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html

I used to have a few links on pinboard but can't find them.

You also might enjoy this: https://archive.org/details/year-in-dev/YearInDev

Mostly just some old docs but Wild Hare has served as something of an archive--though mostly pre-MV: https://www.wildharecomputers.com/

Podcast: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic...

I was very involved in this episode but my interview (along with Tom West's daughter) got left on the cutting room floor :-)
by imtringued | 2025-04-05 09:01:06+00:00
The problem is that if you do understand Any Rand, then she herself is the biggest tax advocate in history. Therefore she was one of the most immoral people.

How is this possible? Creating a tax free society requires more than getting rid of the government. It requires you to build a cooperative society where people willingly help each other out with no expectation of a return. Ayn Rand is the archetypical enemy of such a society.
by raffraffraff | 2025-04-05 09:04:29+00:00
Basically, the same. I still purchase music. My collection goes back to done stuff I bought on CD in 1991 and ripped around 98. My wife finds music on YouTube, I browser RYM and then auditing stuff on YT. If it sticks, I but it.

I find it hard to manage several decades worth of playlists though. I wish music apps treated them with the same respect that albums get. Give them their own metadata like date created, owner, rating, moods etc.
by loxs | 2025-04-05 09:04:44+00:00
Having written a moderately big project in OCaml which I tried porting to F# and later did port to Rust, to me Rust feels much faster to develop than either OCaml or F#, especially once you figure out the "core", adding more features is a breeze. Refactoring is also easier. Not to mention that reading Rust is much easier than reading OCaml and coming back to the project after a year feels very easy. I think that I have less bugs with Rust than with OCaml. And the end product's core ended up being ~3-4 times faster to execute in Rust.
by mvdwoord | 2025-04-05 09:05:37+00:00
This kind of article makes me sad, as why should we live in a world where we (or at least some people) need to even think about this.. maybe I woke up this morning in a foul mood, but honestly, the idea of even having to think about burner phones and "opsec" for traveling (or even just living) depresses me to the point where I will probably not do it at all, and if things go sour, I just accept my fate. Similar to the prepping advice currently given by the scaremongering news in the EU... (Have water, and an emergency radio!!).

Anyone else feel like this? I simply do not have any desire to live in a world where this kind of behavior is required.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 09:06:16+00:00
This more than doubles the previous investment, https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/tsmc-pledges-to-spend-100b...

TSMC previously pledged to pour $65 billion into U.S.-based fabrication plants and has received up to $6.6 billion in grants from the CHIPS Act, a major Biden administration-era law that sought to boost domestic semiconductor production. The new investment brings TSMC’s total investments in the U.S. chip industry to around $165 billion, Trump said in prepared remarks.
by xg15 | 2025-04-05 09:06:39+00:00
I'm reminded of the "Unicode Tags" craze from a few months ago. [1]

It was discovered that some LLMs effortlessly understand characters from the "Tag" range in Unicode and treat them like ASCII, even though those characters are used virtually nowhere in normal text and you in fact need specialized tools to just make them visible. (There is a formal 1-1 mapping between tags and ASCII characters, which would also qualify as a Cesar cipher, but you'd have to read the Unicode spec to find out)

Most concerns were about the fact that this would allow people to smuggle hidden messages to or from the LLMs. But an interesting question was also how the models had even learned the mapping in the first place if tags never occurred in the training data anywhere.

As I understood it, the solution was pretty simple though: They hadn't. There was no specialized circuit for tags in the models. Tag characters just had the property that if you write them as bytes, they will look like "<some prefix bytes> <byte pattern of the corresponding ASCII character>".

So already the tokenizer would parse the characters as ASCII, interleaved with "unknown" tokens for the prefixes. All the model had to do was to ignore the "unknown" tokens and it could process the rest like ASCII. No Cesar cipher decoding needed!

Are we sure something similar isn't happening here?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/ai-chatbots-can-rea...
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-04-05 09:06:48+00:00
I'd say this is Source Sans. I'm sorry to trivialise Nebula's effort, but this seems much ado about nothing—they warped Source Sans' glyphs to be metrically compatible with Whitney, renamed the result 'Nebula Sans', got a developer and videographer to produce a whole website and mini-documentary on the matter and called it a day.

Excuse me?