MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-27 17:49:23+00:00
Paywall doesn't help, thus is all I can read:

>Videogame maker Electronic Arts is in advanced talks to go private in a roughly $50 billion deal that would likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time, according to people familiar with the matter.

A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week, the people said.

But I'm not particularly surprised. It was either Vulture Capitalists or techno-trillionaire. There were rumors buzzing about Apple and Amazon swooping in for years (probably because there were talks, but nothing concrete came of it).

And not to get too political (though at this point I really don't care about avoiding the subject), there's some interesting irony about all this "America first initiatives", and meanwhile one of our largest entertainment companies is being bought out by Saudi Arabia, likely leading to thousands more workers out of a job. But that's just 2025 for ya.
by ethmarks | 2025-09-27 17:49:33+00:00
The actual underlying neural net that the LLMs use doesn't actually output tokens. It outputs a probability distribution for how likely each token is to come next. For example, in the sentence "once upon a ", the token with the highest probability is "time", and then probably "child", and so on.

In order to make this probability distribution useful, the software chooses a token based on its position in the distribution. I'm simplifying here, but the likelihood that it chooses the most probable next token is based on the model's temperature. A temperature of 0 means that (in theory) it'll always choose the most probable token, making it deterministic. A non-zero temperature means that sometimes it will choose less likely tokens, so it'll output different results every time.

Hope this helps.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 17:49:36+00:00
This is a copy of the comment I left on the YouTube video:

"Apple AI won't work because if it's good enough you could ask it, "explain to me why your products are so horribly designed and could you change the interface for me so it's more like this?" Flexible AI integration into the interface would allow regular users to break themselves out of Apple and its partners conceptual space. Steve Jobs hated HyperCard for a reason. He didn't want, "normal people" building things that he couldn't move fast enough to get to first himself. It's very fucking simple."

#HyperCard
by perks_12 | 2025-09-27 17:49:56+00:00
> You are not in kindergarten. This is the state of the world you have to work from, if you aim to be a serious and trustworthy actor, and the amount of suffering you willfully cause is not a detail.

I think it is very kindergarten-ish to shove $25M into the DRC on an almost yearly schedule. Almost like the kindergarten teacher telling Max not to take the shovel from Sarah every single day. I also think it is kindergarten-ish to look at Ebola in Congo and scream for US money (especially when the argument for that is that it make you a less serious and trustworthy actor if you don't).

We are not in kindergarten; we are, in fact, in the real world, and all nations have to face their own problems. The justification for Trump's fund slashing doesn't matter. Sure, people will suffer, but they suffered from Ebola only a year ago. Is it so difficult to tell your people not to eat monkeys and bats? These are solvable problems, and looking at Trump and thinking that he is the problem here is... kindergarten-ish.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-27 17:50:11+00:00
Generally if you're using the term 'the gospel' in relation to something not the Bible you're making analogous comparison. If you look at the analogy then 'the gospel' in this context would be the law. Court precedence would actually be analogous to theological leaders and commentaries. They do carry some weight but they are not themselves 'the gospel'. They are the understanding of what 'the gospel' means and that understanding can change and is subject to review.

I do think it's a fair point to say that precedence should be reviewed in some circumstances to examine why they were set and if it was correctly set. We do not have an immutable constitution and we do not have an immutable set of laws, why would we think that court precedence all of a sudden become immutable for all of time?

There have been, in recent memory, rulings that have been brand new and are overarching. Oftentimes the precedents set prior only dealt with very specific and narrow issues that could be encompassed by this new ruling. The new ruling doesn't automatically invalidate those earlier ones but it does call into question if they are still valid.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-27 17:50:12+00:00
> Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment

Nonsense. Feel free to point out how my comments about just the first amendment is related to you equating that to licensing terms.

> which in all likelihood had most to do with business decisions as WSJ reports

I am not convinced. Please provide the WSJ report. Seems the FCC chair saying "easy way or hard way" was more salient.

To boot, Kimmel is back on the air. If there were substance to the abrupt firing for business reasons, or regulatory, Kimmel would not have been reinstated.

> just pointing out that the airwaves in question are much more restricted than general speech in the United States

I do agree. The restrictions are for obscene speech generally. It is significant when that is extended to political speech.

> United States and debates over what is allowed would not automatically escalate to a constitutional concern.

Indeed. Except in this case we have selective enforcement at the behest of the government for what the government does not like. It is exactly First Amendment territory.
by verteu | 2025-09-27 17:50:15+00:00
No need for family separation. You simply compare the correlation between monozygotic ("identical") twins vs dizygotic ("non-identical") twins.

For example, monozygotic twins will always have the same eye color (99+% correlation), while dizygotic twins do not. Thus we can conclude eye color is genetic. Both twins are raised by their respective parents, so it's unlikely parenting is causing this difference in eye-color-correlation.
by hinkley | 2025-09-27 17:50:45+00:00
I suspect it’s a matter too of where the radiation accumulates. Looking up the products from Chernobyl:

The body mistakes cesium for potassium, this one I already knew from documentaries about Bikini. Half life of 30 years, but it surprisingly doesn’t bioaccumulate (biological half life of 70 days is not great but isn’t a death sentence). But it does accumulate in soft tissue, so you’re gonna eat it.

Radioactive iodine is a bit scary, but what came from Chernobyl has a half life of 8 days, so I could see how a freezer would be very useful there.

Strontium-90 is the scary one. That is mistaken for calcium. And has an average biological half life of 18 years, but that depends very much on where it got absorbed. Anywhere from 14 days to 49 years. And a 29 year half life, similar to cesium-137. Muscles need calcium to function, but most of it is stored in the bones, so maybe this is what the scientist meant?

Grass contains both calcium and potassium, though the thing about Scandinavian reindeer is that they eat a lot of lichen in the winter. It’s why they are so historically important to the traditional diet. But then Chernobyl happened in the Spring, so the reindeer would be accumulators.
by qingcharles | 2025-09-27 17:51:04+00:00
The creator's web site says nothing:

https://abeto.co/

Their Twitter has three posts:

https://xcancel.com/abeto_co

Three of the people behind it:

https://xcancel.com/vlucendo

https://xcancel.com/michaelsungaila

https://kevincolombin.bandcamp.com/
by foldr | 2025-09-27 17:51:20+00:00
He was acquitted by a jury. Do you think Keir Starmer is bribing juries when the defendant is a Labour supporter or something? I'm sorry if that sounds flippant, but what exactly is your assumption about the underlying mechanism here? If there were some sort of Labour cabal controlling the justice system then this person would never have been arrested and tried in the first place.
by kace91 | 2025-09-27 17:52:07+00:00
Can you educate me on that?

My first thought was that what you want for education is a best bang for your buck computer so that a student has an affordable option. In that sense the most competitive option would be the best choice.

But I’m probably missing some extra feature or idea that makes the pi a better option even if comparatively more expensive? What’s is it?
by k310 | 2025-09-27 17:53:15+00:00
2013?

One that is of interest to me is the javascript blocker.

Obviously, killing JavaScript destroys interactive websites, but most that I visit are basically static content hidden or defaced by cookie popups, begs, promotions and so on. I selectively disable javascript just to view content.

I use an extension on desktop/Firefox and an app (Sheriff) on iOS.
by kelipso | 2025-09-27 17:53:26+00:00
Yes, that’s the typical argument but the problem is that they veer way out of their lane. And their lane is in reality very narrow and academically focused.

When these experts go into politics and activism, their biases show and consequently the credibility of them and their unfortunate colleagues who don’t go into politics get lowered.

> What evidence do you have that most scientists are giving opinions about things unrelated to their expertise and then stating you should trust them more due to their expertise or position?

I don’t live under a rock.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-27 17:54:13+00:00
Those days have long passed and most of the money is made on the b2b/industrial side. But these days raspberry pis only have a mode in software compatibility and LTS and those are slowly dwindling away. I'd be hard pressed to buy a raspberry pi of any kind these days when RK35XX Devices are available and beat pis at almost every task.

I really hope the pi foundation gets their head out of their behinds and stars competing again.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-27 17:54:38+00:00
> The Raspberry Pi foundation isn't going in a good direction IMHO.

I disagree. This is exactly the type of product they should be building: It’s fun. It’s self contained. It lights up and looks intriguing to young people. It has a great community. It has plenty of documentation. You can expand from it and tap into a big universe of Raspberry Pi projects. You can store it away when you or your kids are done with it. You can connect it to your TV easily.

This is perfect for everything the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to do: Be an educational ecosystem that was easy to access.

So many people are confused by Raspberry Pi because they think it’s supposed to be the most powerful or most bang for your buck general compute machine out there. That’s not their goal or their market.

As you said, if someone wants a fast general purpose PC they shouldn’t even be looking at this. That’s not what it’s for.
by threemux | 2025-09-27 17:54:57+00:00
I think it even makes sense if it were pursued in a different way. Greenland is looking for full independence but can't really hack it financially without aid. I think the COFA (Compact of Free Association) model that we have with Palau and Marshall Islands would work well.

We get expanded military rights and potentially some mineral/drilling rights, while Greenland gets protection, lots of money, access to USPS domestic rates, and probably increased tourism in addition to the independence they desire. Their citizens could also live and work in the US indefinitely.
by ck2 | 2025-09-27 17:55:03+00:00
There are less than 60,000 people in Greenland

Not 6 million, only 60K

It's like a small city population spread out much further

Much easier to disappear opposition than try to recruit people pro-oppression

This is not going to end well because it's not about the mineral rights

It's about the northwest passage, which will then be another cold war with Canada

I hope all these countries understand the vast majority of US population is not okay with this
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-27 17:55:10+00:00
I was also having Spotify in mind when writing about algorithmic curation and GenAI in music ;)

Regarding this:

> I'm saying I use AI generations for exactly the opposite — so that I can explore and listen to things that are more intellectually interesting in the ways I find intellectually interesting

I just have not found any AI music that would satisfy this description. But I am very interested in failure modes of GenAI. Especially in Suno, it was cracking me up at times.

I'm also sure there will be a space for interesting and/or challenging music generated with neural networks involved.

But I don't see any revolution here so far.

Care to share examples of AI-assisted music you find interesting? To elaborate, I don't find jarring or curious combinations of cliches interesting.

AI could not invent a new style, it seems to me. To repeat this point.

And I've never had any problem finding interesting music.

Key to me is diving into labels, artists and their philosophy, after I got interested into particular ones (the other way around doesn't work for me).

I adore discogs.com for that. Regarding interviews and stuff, there's sadly a huge decline in quality written material about music, I feel.

"Lowest-common-denominator music" is exactly what Suno produces, at least in my ears.

I could go on and list music I like, but generally avoid that.

Wait, I'll do it anyway for a bit... at the moment, I like

Punctum - Remote Sensing EP

(Caterina Barbieri)

and

AtomTM vs Pete Namlook - Jet chamber LP

just for example

I also love so much other music.

To me, such music is miles apart from the slop I heard from AI.

I heard there's research into generating music in the style of JS Bach as well. How's that going?

I'd guess: probably bot too well, because the genius of Bach is not only in complexity, or counterpoint rules.

His music is very emotional to me (at least the portions I like).

And, like any good music, it has moments of surprise. It's not just a formula, or a "vibe", or a "genre".

Could AI create a new Techno, a new Blues, a new Bossa Nova?

I doubt it.
by JimDabell | 2025-09-27 17:56:33+00:00
I agree that it’s not a sharp decline but zooming out, what I see is absolutely no organic growth at all in the past couple of years. All the increases have been sharp spikes that immediately fall off dramatically, followed by longer, slower periods of decline. It looks like nobody is switching to Bluesky except in a handful of viral events, during which a tonne of people try it out but don’t keep using it. There’s only one upward slope on these graphs, and that stopped in late 2023 – about the time Threads went fully global. These look like very unhealthy stats.
by jamamp | 2025-09-27 17:56:53+00:00
> Another drawback is the difficulty of learning Typst. The official documentation is confusingly organized, with information scattered unpredictably among "Tutorial", "Reference", and "Guides" sections.

I would have thought that this method of organizing documentation is preferred, as I assumed The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation[0] was well known and liked.

[0] https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
by haunter | 2025-09-27 17:57:07+00:00
Electronic music is anything but niche

anyways, rutracker or many of the other private trackers

If you want to discover electronic subgenres then I'd recommend to listen the weekly Essential Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:Essential_Mix

If you want some personal recommendation my current top 5 (changes all the time)

Daft Punk (1997) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-03-02_-_Daft_Punk_-_Essential...

Justice (2007) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2007-06-10_-_Justice_-_Essential_M...

Sharam (2009) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2009-08-29_-_Sharam_-_Essential_Mi...

Skrillex (2013) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-06-15_-_Skrillex_-_Essential_...

Ben Böhmer (2021) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2021-10-09_-_Ben_B%C3%B6hmer_-_Ess...
by IlikeKitties | 2025-09-27 17:57:23+00:00
>is this... just racism, actually? Perhaps but mostly a result of decades of bad consumer experiences. From Malware preinstalled to terrible software support and downright dangerous electronics, chinese hardware from alibaba amazon and ebay is rightfully regarded as questionable, potentially even dangerous until proven otherwise. And without a track record in software updates, any company selling any internet or god forbid cloud connected device is plain irresposible to use until proven otherwise.
by klodolph | 2025-09-27 17:58:02+00:00
You don’t even need to DIY, you can just pay an amount of money similar to the cost of 1970s hi-fi systems after adjusting for inflation. The nice hi-fi systems are still around, but they don’t look at all like old hi-fi (why would they? both taste and technology have shifted drastically) and you don’t see them available at retail brick-and-mortar stores like Best Buy.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 17:58:07+00:00
As a person that relies on Adobe Media Encoder to make things if this really works the way I want it to you'll have done a great deed for the world. I'm probably preaching to the converted here but I'm aghast at how I have login to Adobe Cloud just to access the relatively simple features I need for say like converting an video into a gif or something. I'll give it a try in weeks to come.

Thanks for a worthwhile offering buddy. Here's to you!
by radley | 2025-09-27 17:58:09+00:00
> Musicians not just copy but everyone adds something new

Not everyone. I've followed electronic music for decades, and even in a paid-music store like Beatport, most artist reproduce what they've heard, and are often just a pale imitation because they have no idea of how to make something better. That's the fundamental struggle of most creatives, regardless of tool or instrument.

I haven't tried Suno, but I imagine it's doing something similar to modern software: start with a pre-made music kit and hit the "Randomize" button for the sequencer & arpeggiator. It just happens to be an "infinite" bundle kit.
by hollerith | 2025-09-27 17:58:24+00:00
You assert that the US does not allow dual citizenship, but that is wrong:

>U.S. law does not require a U.S. citizen to choose between U.S. citizenship and another (foreign) nationality (or nationalities). A U.S. citizen may naturalize in a foreign state without any risk to their U.S. citizenship.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
by danielhanchen | 2025-09-27 17:58:34+00:00
Oh yes if RL breaks SHA-256 that'll be revolutionary - but definitely not that - some folks are for now investigating basic combinations of old school ciphers for now - security applications with RL are most likely for now related to automatically finding attack surfaces and creating defensive layers - I probably should have re-worded "decryption for RL" to just "security for RL" sorry!
by tiagod | 2025-09-27 17:58:35+00:00
I've written a system that consists of a JS front-end/backend, which then feeds a json object to a typst template to generate PDF reports with hundreds of pages, multipage tables, references to bibliography within the json strings, and translated to multiple languages. It works extremely well, and it's very intuitive to work with it.

For example, for the translations, I just made an object with every piece of text in a hierarchical structure, with the leaf being an object with keys for every language and the texts as values. Then I have a function called t() that is created after we already know the language for this report that just extracts the current language string when given an object like #t(content.section1.subsection.header.title) in the main report template (which imports this translations object from another file)

For bibliography references, I just have a regex for __REF\d+ that will replace all those references with real bibtex references.
by WalterBright | 2025-09-27 17:59:29+00:00
> I don't know how people in the olden days survived.

Maybe they found a material they could smear on their body.

For a similar example, I have a friend who spends a lot of time hiking and camping. He tells me that the first day, he needs to apply sunscreen. The next day onward, he doesn't need to anymore, as his body oil and sweat seems to do the job.

It makes sense that our skin has not evolved to be cleaned every day.
by noahjk | 2025-09-27 17:59:49+00:00
We recently purchased a Hörbert for our kids, which is everything you (I) want and nothing you don't - music is loaded via a SD card, there are 9 "playlists", it's mostly wood, and there's no need for WiFi or additional purchases.

The only catch is that they don't ship to the US (we just bought one in Europe and brought it back).

https://www.hoerbert.com/
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-27 17:59:54+00:00
> I pre-reject friendship so friendship doesn't reject me

LOL that would describe me perfectly as well I think. I have not had "close" friends since I was in my early 20s. Then everyone moved away and we all started our separate lives.

The next group of friends came along when I had kids, and parents naturally became friendly because we would see each other at kids activities, sports, etc.

Then the kids grew up, and there was nothing bringing that group of people together anymore. I still see and talk to one or two of them but it's pretty infrequent.

Now, the idea of maintaining a real, close friendship just sounds like too much work. I'm happy enough just living my life on my terms.

Most friendships are just formed of the people we see regularly due to circumstance. They may be pleasant but they are not deep, and they will fall apart as soon as circumstances change.
by colinb | 2025-09-27 18:00:02+00:00
I'd like to be respectful, guidelines and all that, but this comment is dismissive of people's real concerns, and frankly a bit arseholey.

Do the people who offer to buy your house have armies? Are they keen on deploying drones and missiles against people who annoy them?

Maybe the orange man was just joking. Maybe it's all part of some genius strategy to increase the US' standing in the world. Maybe it's a clever scheme to boost the US economy. But from the point of view of the Greenlanders and the Danes it seems to be more like a visit from the mafia. "Nice country you've got here. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."

Sigh. Maybe I'm reading more into your comment than you meant. If that's the case, I'm sorry. If it isn't, I suggest that you stop to consider that your entertainment news may be someone else's threat of violence.
by scarmig | 2025-09-27 18:00:28+00:00
There are plenty of problems that have technical solutions, or might have technical solutions. Diseases of all sorts, disabilities, pollution, climate change, incidentally complicated bureaucracy. Although you can gesture that these have a social component, even for that, the social component becomes much easier to address if the cost of addressing it goes down.

To say nothing of how ubiquitous manufacturing automation would make material goods accessible to a much broader range of people (though, you could argue that material goods are today effectively universally accessible, and I wouldn't disagree).
by master_crab | 2025-09-27 18:00:38+00:00
The Israeli IC will be extremely opinionated and will fight for their opinions, and if it makes sense from a business perspective, the strategy would change. But the Israeli IC when fighting these battles would also try to make a business case.

That’s not because they have different engineering perspectives, that’s an Israeli cultural trait. Israeli’s tend to index more towards directness in their communication. That’s definitely not the case with someone from, say, India.

Americans fall somewhere in between.