MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-04-25 18:51:56+00:00
> Do any controllers have a twistable thumbstick?

Yes, several. For example, the main knob on the Komplete Kontrol S-series MIDI controllers (https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keyb...) combines a rotary encoder with four axis directional input, a push button and an LED indicator ring. I have an S61 and the implementation of the knob is delightfully intuitive, responsive and functional. To be clear, this implementation is not a joystick on a ball base with twistable knob, it's a flush-mounted knob that can be slightly nudged up, down, left or right with a single, satisfying click in each direction. I'd recommend trying it yourself, if only there were still any music stores that put a range of high-end midi controller keyboards out where customers could, you know, touch them.

I actually came here to suggest the same idea for the EuroKnob. The four axis directional input is basically a D-Pad module commonly used in game controllers. I find this kind of rotary knob + directional input control to be very effective. However, there's one critical caveat. It's apparently possible to implement this kind of control poorly because I've also seen a couple devices where the implementation is as bad as the S61's is great. It probably just requires a certain degree of engineering finesse to nail a good combination of responsiveness and tactile feedback.

> You could mount it on a linear pot/slider.

As much as I like and agree with your first thought, I've actually seen the idea of a rotary knob combined with a linear slider - although it's extremely rare. Having touched one myself I can confirm the reason it's rare is that it's not just bad - it's uniquely bad. By which I mean the combination of two controls which each work so well on their own into one combined control, is unexpectedly awful. I was unfortunate enough to try one first-hand (so to speak) at a tiny booth buried in the back of some long-forgotten NAMM show in the days when Cubase was still being demoed on an Atari ST. There was a bespoke mixer from a company I'd never heard of with rotary knobs on their mixer's sliders. I'm pretty sure when I tried to adjust the two parameters at the same time I may have reflexively pulled my hand back and uttered "Ugh!"

Usually I'm polite when trying out some novel interface idea but there must be something 'special' about trying to combine two very precise but divergent proportional motions on two different arm joins (wrist & elbow) at the same time that's deeply unnatural. It felt so weirdly wrong that I suspect some human factors kinesiologist has probably written an award-winning paper about how humans evolved to never, ever do this. But hey, one out of two ideas is still a great day! :-)
by names_are_hard | 2025-04-25 18:52:03+00:00
Warfare is one possibility. This might seem like a very unlikely scenario depending on where you live, but in a modern Blitzkrieg situation the government wouldn't be asking citizens to shut the lights off at night but instead interfering with GPS signals to make navigation difficult for enemy aircraft.

We know this is possible because in the last 1.5 years this has happened numerous times - people would wake up in Tel Aviv and open Google Maps and find that their GPS thinks they're in Beirut or somewhere in the desert in Jordan or in middle of the Mediterranean Sea or wherever.

You can imagine that this causes all kinds of chaos, from issues ordering a taxi in taxi apps to food delivery and just general traffic jams. The modern world is not built for lack of GPS.
by JadeNB | 2025-04-25 18:52:36+00:00
> The ideal amount of fraud and false claims in research is not zero, because the policing effort it would take to accomplish this goal would destroy all other forms of value.

Surely that just means that we shouldn't spend too much effort achieving small marginal progress towards that ideal, rather than that's not the ideal? I am a scientist (well, a mathematician), and I can maintain my idealism about my discipline in the face of the idea that we can't and shouldn't try to catch and stop all fraud, but I can't maintain it in the face of the idea that we should aim for a small but positive amount of fraud.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-25 18:52:38+00:00
I grew up with an (already old, and by the time we got rid of it years later, hilariously rusted-out and with tires containing more fix-a-flat than air) Scout and their announcement ad for the electric one hit a bullseye with me.

I don't really do new cars (too expensive) but damn... if I had enough cash to not give a fuck, they'd have been well on their way to selling me one just with that ad. Really well done.
by bpfrh | 2025-04-25 18:52:39+00:00
Yes, if your comment is strictly read, you are right that your are allowed to scream fire in a crowded space

I think that the "you are not allowed to scream fire" argument kinda implies that there is not a fire and it creates a panic which leads to injuries

I read the wikipedia article about brandenburg, but I don't quite understand how it changes the part about screaming fire in a crowded room.

Is it that it would fall under causing a riot(and therefore be against the law/government)?

Or does it just remove any earlier restrictions if any?

Or where there never any restrictions and it was always just the outcome that was punished?

Because most of the article and opinions talk about speech against law and government.
by bjornsing | 2025-04-25 18:52:57+00:00
> what can you do that redis can't?

Keep the data in S3 for 0.023 USD per GB-month. If you have a billion keys that can be useful.

> I'm also skeptical of the graph on your front page that claims S3 cost as much as DynamoDB.

Good point. Could have put a bit more work into that.
by vinceguidry | 2025-04-25 18:53:55+00:00
This was amusing in a good way. I did write a few parsers in Ruby back in the day, the experience taught me that we already have the best syntax possible at our disposal, why not just lean on it. You get so much more when you don't have to leave Ruby. I find myself reaching for a DSL whenever I have to deal with a lot of less-expressive code / configuration.

I'll write generators that take a DSL as input and spit out the mountain of boring stuff. Last time was to deal with keyd's[1] homegrown syntax, which is powerful, but not expressive. I made a gist for the curious.[2]

Before finding keyd, I also took this approach with Xbindkeys config, and was on my way to wrapping Kubernetes in nice, friendly Ruby before I got canned.

1. https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

2. https://gist.github.com/VinceGuidry/e85fa37e3e60f2dcb63c051c...
by bloppe | 2025-04-25 18:54:06+00:00
27% of the federal budget for 2024 was spent on health care [1]. A lot of that is because health care in America is, on average, twice as expensive as in other rich countries [2]. Clearly, it ought to be possible for us to achieve the same level of care while shrinking the budget by about 13%. If you actually care about the deficit, then that's what you should be focusing on.

If you don't actually care about the deficit, then ya; just gut a ton of minuscule social services that add up to <1% of the budget but can be touted to your base as "political wins" while actually kneecapping American scientific competitiveness.

[1]: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/what-does-the-feder... [2]: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
by esseph | 2025-04-25 18:54:12+00:00
So you'll ask... What?

I'm not sure what you're asking at this point.

It's a book about sabotage over a long period of time, written in particular to partisans of various countries.

Plausible deniability is the CIA operating method.

"How to do shit to subvert large orgs covertly via death by a thousand cuts" is another title for the manuscript, in some universe, somewhere.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-25 18:54:19+00:00
Yes except that the very same armed types, after years of being derided by Democrat and progressive types as ignorant rednecks, are the least likely (for now at least) to defend a judge being targeted for protecting immigrants by the Trump administration. I know of no armed militia types that are of the opposing political persuasion, being armed is just a bit too kitsch and crude for them it seems. Maybe they reconsider their views of armed resistance in these years.
by mediaman | 2025-04-25 18:54:22+00:00
This is mixing two questions: whether a system can be elegantly designed and do the job without major market distortion, versus the question of whether various actors will stand in the way to prevent it.

You could say the same thing about zoning. Higher density is better for affordability, but faces opposition from landowning existing residents. Does that make it wrong, or not worth pursuing? No, and that particular movement seems to be getting traction despite the political opposition.

I read "trivially fixable" as "there is an elegant solution to this," not that "it is easy to get it politically passed."
by nine_k | 2025-04-25 18:54:26+00:00
Why, we of course could if we cared. Let the car offer a wifi access point. WPA3 is secure enough, but you can of course have an extra layer of TLS inside it.

For the extra paranoid, a car could have a USB socket that pretends to be a wired network interface, offering DHCP.

Run a web server for car diagnostics and maintenance when connected to this interface. Do it from the comfort of your laptop, or anywhere anytime using your phone. Zero chance of remote exploits, if you set the things correctly on the car side. An ESP32-based system with $5 BOM would suffice to provide this.
by whichken | 2025-04-25 18:54:26+00:00
Not sure why I'm surprised. I'm actually quite surprised Google didn't do this sooner, being Google and all. I bought my Nest before the acquisition and held out as long as I could before they forced me to migrate my Nest account to a Google account.

I understand not wanting to support old hardware forever, but is it really that hard to lock this device down enough to only accept commands from Google servers? I just want to be able to tweak the temperature at night without getting out of bed.

I certainly won't be replacing it with their new model, even if they are offering a reasonable discount. I hear good things about Ecobee...
by neogodless | 2025-04-25 18:54:30+00:00
Anyone? Sure. If this was available 2 months ago, I may have bought one instead of a used Polestar. The Polestar is wildly faster, more luxurious, better range, but I'd have liked a truck, and if I got the $7500 tax credit, I'd have paid about $9k less for this. (Used, 20k miles, $29k.)

Lots of people? Much harder to say. Has to be either "first car" kind of thing for someone young, or "second car" in a family where it's OK to have a 2-seater with limited range be used for commuting/errands. (Or "third car" for people with money to spare.)
by hinkley | 2025-04-25 18:54:34+00:00
Oh I know we are trying to genomically test them for oncology research and potential treatment plans, but do they do paternity tests on them?

I was trying to remember which mammal in Australia gets tumors from fighting, and I found a reference to a mother getting melanoma from her daughter. It’s unclear to me whether the cancer transmission was rare or the identification is rare.
by hagan | 2025-04-25 18:54:37+00:00
Yes you're right there are apps like Mailmaestro and Superhuman. They're much better than my tool in general. But you're talking about a different kind of tool. My tool recognizes urgent emails based on many criteria and sends an alert only if someone writes an urgent message to you. My tool is good for procurement, logistics, sales and CRM. Where a lot of urgent processes take place.
by petsfed | 2025-04-25 18:55:48+00:00
No, because you need ultra-cold or ultra-low density (or both, as with 21 cm hydrogen) gas. If your mean free path divided by your mean molecular velocity is significantly less than the relaxation time, then the the atom/molecule gets knocked out of the necessary high-energy state well before the transition occurs with sufficient frequency.

With [O III] in particular, it only gets into the necessary state via collisions (that's the easy part) occurring in extremely low density plasma, but then it relaxes via photon emission (that's the hard part). So if it gets knocked around by another collision, then the photon never gets emitted in the first place.
by DADADADA12341 | 2025-04-25 18:57:06+00:00
> - Lack of a mobile app. Minimalist design is great, but I still want an app to manage charging and be alerted to any vehicle issues.

God, please, no. Why on Gods green earth would I want that? Stop doing this to stuff. It is an abomination. I am sure many others echoed this point but holy crap. No. I am all for technology. But I do not want some tracker in my car. Apps are anathema to my freedom.
by simion314 | 2025-04-25 18:57:35+00:00
I am not talking about those storie, most stories have a bad character that does bad things, and that is in the end punished in a brutal way, With American AI you can't have a bad wolf that eats young goats or children unless he eats them maybe very lovingly, and you can't have this bad wolf punished by getting killed in a trap.
by timewizard | 2025-04-25 18:58:39+00:00
> Are we better off letting a rapist go free when their victim cannot testify against them because they were deported?

That's not an actual outcome that would occur. Cases can proceed if the victim is unavailable. Do we let a rapist off because their victim had an untimely death? Obviously not.

In the case of a deportee, if we have a sworn statement from them, or can remotely depose them, then their testimony would be included in the trial.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 18:58:45+00:00
Is the number really that crazy if we consider the context?

- America is a land of opportunities. It is BY FAR the country with the largest number of legal immigrants[0]. There are ~51M in the US and the second is Germany with ~16M. I think it makes sense that given the extremely high demand to come to the US, it is unsurprising that many do so illegally. Especially when the costs of staying in your own country are so high.

- How would you even go about documenting them, determining status, and then following due process[1]. Tricky situation. It's does not only create a dystopian authoritarian hellscape to constantly check everyone's status, but it is also really expensive to do so! Random stops interfere with average citizens and violates our constitutional rights. Rights created explicitly because the people founding this country were experienced with such situations...

I mean I also agree with your point that they are being exploited and that there's been this silent quid pro quo (even if one party is getting the shit end of the deal). But also I think people really need to consider what it actually takes to get the things they want. Certainly we can do better and certainly we shouldn't exploit them. But importantly, which is more important: the rights of a citizen or punishing illegal immigrants? There has to be a balance because these are coupled. For one, I'm with Jefferson, I'd rather a hundred guilty men go free than a single innocent be stripped of their freedom. You can't pick and choose. The rules have to apply to everyone or they apply to no one. There are always costs, and the most deadly costs are those that are hard to see.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...

[1] I cannot stress enough how critical due process is. If we aren't going to have due process, then we don't have any laws. Full stop. If we don't have due process, then the only law is your second amendment right, and that's not what anyone wants.
by ladeez | 2025-04-25 18:58:50+00:00
I’m suggesting they act less like a VHS tape of the past and instead just use passing awareness with the existence of those things to make their own custom versions.

No need to read every space opera to get the gist. Same with all old philosophy. Someone jotted down their creole for life. K …

I get the appeal, been there. After so much an abstract pattern of just being engaged in biochemistry hacking myself settled in as the ideas really matter little in our society of automated luxury and mere illusion of an honorific culture despite the political realities of our system.

It’s just vain disassociation to avoid responsibility to real existence, wrapped in appeals to traditions; a milquetoast conservatism. That’s my take. You can not like it but I’m not actually forcing anyone to live by it. I free you all from honor driven obligations if that’s what you need to read.
by nathanbraun | 2025-04-25 18:59:01+00:00
From the README:

How it works

In a signed chat, nvim-ai hashes the full conversation history and latest response immediately after getting a reply from the LLM. It inserts that hash into the buffer as a signature block.

Separately, the :NAIVerify command hashes the full buffer, compares it to the signature, and displays the "Verified" text (as an extended mark) if it matches.

Also:

- The hashing algorithm uses a persistent, secret key. This prevents the user from simply editing the text in the buffer, then re-hashing it and tampering with the signature themselves.

- As soon as the buffer is edited the "Verified" text disappears (since we can no longer guarantee it matches) but you can check it again by running :NAIVerify.

The hashing algorithm will ignore previous signature blocks and blank lines. Other formatting changes count as differences.

Re uses -- besides arbitration like in the README, you could use it for habit contracts (e.g. beeminder or forfeit). For example, I have a template that I use for a weekly review and have AI evaluate it and make sure it includes all the sections it's supposed to have. If it does the AI responds "Review meets requirements". This verification could prevent one mode of cheating, which would be me just typing in "Review meets requirements" myself.
by StrandedKitty | 2025-04-25 18:59:02+00:00
It's pretty popular in Eastern Europe and Russia. In Ukraine railroad tickets are sold through a Telegram chat bot.

I think the main reason people prefer making chat bots in Telegram is that it's completely free and unlimited, i.e. you can create any number of chat bots, send any number of messages with attached files of any size. Their API is very easy to use too.
by neogodless | 2025-04-25 18:59:04+00:00
https://www.slate.auto/en

Not sure if the article covers it (I read Ars Technica's, not Verge) but the Slate site shows that they do have support for tablets, bluetooth speaker mounts, 3-seat back row, etc.)

While speaker wiring might be nice... I sense that's less likely to be readily supported. Mounts + wireless + USB port for charging is probably the limit there.

Of course, used truck buyers tend to be happy to run some wiring for things like CB, radar, extra lighting, etc. Doesn't matter if the wiring is showing!
by eadmund | 2025-04-25 18:59:28+00:00
> are you really going to trust that you can stop it from _executing a harmful action_?

Of course, because an LLM can’t take any action: a human being does, when he sets up a system comprising an LLM and other components which act based on the LLM’s output. That can certainly be unsafe, much as hooking up a CD tray to the trigger of a gun would be — and the fault for doing so would lie with the human who did so, not for the software which ejected the CD.
by danans | 2025-04-25 18:59:55+00:00
> Larry Page would be pumped. His annual salary is $1.

The tax would be on consumption, the credit would be based on income, so Larry still pays when he buys gas (if not for his cars, then for his planes).

> I would be interested in reading a study where all the tax laws in the country were burned down and rebuilt

That would burn down the country. Tax policy and the economy are a ship that has to be gradually turned in the optimal direction, just like how for the last 40 years tax policy has been gradually redistributing growth/wealth upwards. Sudden changes (like we are seeing now with indiscriminate tariff policy) are what results in the most harm to the poor.

> Also, eliminate borrowing against a stock portfolio. That is downright evil.

Agreed, or just heavily tax borrowing against a portfolio above, say, $2M/year. That way you don't penalize working people borrowing against 401ks or taking home equity loans for home improvements.
by chimeracoder | 2025-04-25 19:00:31+00:00
> Sometime in the past few years I saw a new wrinkle: password must be changed every 90 days unless it is above a minimum length (12 or so as best I recall) in which case you only need to change it yearly. Since the industry has realized length trumps dumb "complexity" checks, it's a welcome change to see that encoded into policy.

This is such a bizarre hybrid policy, especially since forced password rotations at fixed intervals are already not recommended for end-user passwords as a security practice.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-25 19:00:36+00:00
> It's really, really hard to fire something into the Sun.

It's hard if you aim at the Sun. So don't do that.

You just have to kill your starting orbital velocity relative to the Sun (the efficient way is to fly away out from Earth to higher orbit and then kill your orbital velocity rather than just immediately killing the orbital velocity you get from Earth at Earth's orbital distance -- we can launch craft with enough delta-V to do the former, but not quite the latter, IIRC, with current technology.

> Things don't just get sucked in.

They do unless they have a sufficient component of their velocity at right angles to the Sun to avoid doing that, but that's a solvable problem. You don't hit the Sun (easily) by thrust at the Sun, you hit it by thrusting at right angles to it, in the direction opposite whatever component of velocity you currently have orthogonal to the Sun, and gravity will take care of the rest.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-25 19:02:12+00:00
Apple has a long track record of extended support for older iPhone hardware while Google has a long track record of destroying any goodwill around hardware investment by consumers. OP is right, you have to be willfully ignorant at this point to buy into any Google consumer hardware ecosystem.

Better to purchase from a company that’s business is what you’re buying, not a labs project at the mercy of whomever is floating through Google upper management at the time (imho).

https://www.macworld.com/article/675021/how-long-does-apple-...

https://killedbygoogle.com/
by timewizard | 2025-04-25 19:02:47+00:00
Replace illegal immigration with any other crime.

What if a witness to a murder is an accused thief? Should we let thefts go unpunished because it may implicate their testimony in more severe crimes? What we actually do is offer the person reduced sentencing in exchange for their cooperation but we don't ignore their crime.

In terms of illegal immigrants, if they haven't filed any paperwork, or haven't attempted to legally claim asylum, then they shouldn't be surprised they're left without legal protections, even if they happen to have witnessed a more severe crime.
by Animats | 2025-04-25 19:02:59+00:00
Price seems to be creeping up. Car and Driver says $28K.[1] That may be related to "incentives".

This could be very popular with companies that need small fleets of pickup trucks. The ones that have company logos on the side.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVeYjxQPdz4