MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by transpute | 2025-04-22 08:59:12+00:00
e.g. QNAP has rare hardware combo of half-depth 1U low-power Arm NAS /w mainline Linux support, 32GB ECC RAM, dual NVME, 4x hotswap SATA, 2x10G SFP, 2x2.5G copper, hardware support for ZFS encryption, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868855.

In theory, one could fit an Arm RK3588 SBC with NVME-to-PCIe-to-HBA or NVME-to-SATA into half-depth JBOD case. That would give up 2x10G SFP, 2xNVME and ECC RAM.
by aredox | 2025-04-22 09:00:36+00:00
I have heard yesterday on some Catholic TV channel that Benedict had already done the theological clarification work during his mandate, and that Francis - who was already the runner-up to Benedict and knew he was likely to be next in line - knew his task would be more about preaching - thus his strong media game (and as he person it suited him well too, he seemed really approchable and outgoing).
by sersi | 2025-04-22 09:00:59+00:00
The problem is that a lot of competitors don't necessarily have great software. For example QNAP on the hardware side is supposed to be good, you have more bang for the bucks in term of performance but they had several major CVEs that really call into question their security practices. I have a friend who is running Unraid on QNAP and is happy though.
by freeamz | 2025-04-22 09:01:21+00:00
>- Instead, product was built the old-fashioned way - by talking to customers; quite often, customers would reach out to us! "Please build time-saving feature x", "support new medical procedure y", "help us publish more research by analyzing z".

Think that might be a plus. PM/PO has ruined the industry. This way at least one has a direction to the customers, which is something I can't say about large companies.
by jonas_b | 2025-04-22 09:02:39+00:00
A common google searching thing I counter have is something like this:

I need to get from A to B via C via public transport in a big metropolis.

Now C could be one of say 5 different locations of a bank branch, electronics retailer, blood test lab or whatever, so there's multiple ways of going about this.

I would like a chatbot solution that compares all the different options and lays them out ranked by time from A to B. Is this doable today?
by Khelo | 2025-04-22 09:03:28+00:00
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by truculent | 2025-04-22 09:03:43+00:00
It is centrist because it fails to propose a different way of doing things or structuring society. Just because it’s a liberal vision, doesn’t mean it’s not centrist.

There is certainly overlap with right wing elements, too. Although UK focused, it’s hard not to see the right wing undercurrents in this Abundance-type manifesto: https://ukfoundations.co/
by sersi | 2025-04-22 09:04:10+00:00
On the other had, they have also slowly destroyed their app ecosystem. The photo solution is much worse than it used to be both in terms of features and the now removed support for media codecs. Video station has pretty much been dead for years.

At this point, I'm not that convinced that there's anything that synology offers that isn't handled much better by an app running on docker. This wasn't true 10 years ago.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-04-22 09:04:47+00:00
You often can't choose though:

https://www.tullverket.se/en/startpage/private/online/shoppi...

> When purchasing via an e-commerce platform, you can sometimes choose which forwarding agent is to send your parcel. However, when Chinese postal services are the forwarding agent, Postnord automatically handles all mail-order parcels in Sweden.

So you end up with a big markup either way - either on the PostNord / Tullverket side, or on the delivery side.
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-22 09:06:27+00:00
That's more of a blog article than a research paper...

Scott Alexander (one of the writers), yudkowsky, and the others (not the other authors, the other group of "thinkers" with similar ideas) are more or less Ai doomers with no actual background in machine learning/ai

I don't think why we should listen to them. Especially when that blog page is formatted in a deceptive way to look like a research paper

It's not science, it's science fiction
by codeflo | 2025-04-22 09:06:50+00:00
Ah, the prequels, famous for their kid-friendly themes like senatorial debates and child murder. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, but I think there are objective ways in which the originals were more competently made than the prequels were that are not explained by the "boomers vs. millenials vs. zoomers" nostalgia angle that you suggest.
by lostlogin | 2025-04-22 09:06:55+00:00
I would like to use ssds for running containers, this is a good point. The elderly cpu is more than adequate for my needs but as you say, an upgrade, ever, would be nice.

I guess I’ve avoided these issues by accepting that solid state storage in a NAS is still too expensive.

My ultimate would be the Synology with an Apple silicon heart. One can dream.
by ben_w | 2025-04-22 09:07:44+00:00
Already has in some fields — AlphaFold solved the folding of 2e8 proteins, whereas all of humanity only managed 1.7e5 in the last 60 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold

Even just the training run for modern LLMs would take humans millennia to go through the same text.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-22 09:08:21+00:00
Here is one I wrote today on LLMs that can handle chat input like humans write: multiple disjointed messages arriving asynchronously that need to be treated as one: https://sgnt.ai/p/interruptible-llm-responses/

I use a similar technique to the article for trying to avoid jailbreaks by putting untrusted input through zod to check I got back a JSON structure of the right shape, which has been very effective.

I’ve been sprinkling lexical in-memory search throughout prompts to save inference calls, which has been very effective
by theden | 2025-04-22 09:09:21+00:00
Like the adjacent comment mentioned it's mountable in linux, so I wouldn't call it a lock-in in the normal way https://zarino.co.uk/post/synology-shr-raid-1-ubuntu/

Not sure why people are saying SHR is proprietary in some of the comments I read, it's effectively a wrapper for mdadm — though I suppose the GUI itself could be called proprietary.
by therein | 2025-04-22 09:09:52+00:00
I have both of these releases running side by side for multiple years by now. It will not auto-update between releases anyway similarly to how nobody would do a dist-upgrade on you automatically. Neither have ever overwritten my changes to enable rootfs rw + apt repo fix and other changes to the filesystem, no more than a normal Debian would. Enabling apt actually gets you a more up to date system than you'd get otherwise.
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by hyunhum | 2025-04-22 09:09:56+00:00
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Let's build the future tgh :)
by mojo74 | 2025-04-22 09:10:16+00:00
Used to happen to me when I played a lot of tetris on the gameboy back in the day. When reading any books afterwards I would see the tetronimoes slotting in the spaces between the lines of sentences and words. Goldeneye (N64) had me eyeing security cameras in the real world and making silencer noises in my head for quite a while too.
by djmips | 2025-04-22 09:13:09+00:00
The article also mentions how the llvm-mca is inaccurate for the A53. And furthermore LLVM compilers will do poorly

"...any compiler that is using LLVM to optimize machine code (such as the Rust compiler or clang) will not do very well for the A53, since it’s essentially trying to optimize code using a wrong CPU model. "
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-22 09:15:18+00:00
I don't understand why someone who is not a researcher (Scott and other authors) into that academic field should be taken into consideration, I don't care what he dedicated to, I care what the scientific consensus is. I mean, there are other researchers - actual ones, in academia - complaining a lot about this article, such as Timnit Gebru.

I know, it's a repeat of my submissions of the last days, but it's hard to not feel like these people are making their own cult
by vladms | 2025-04-22 09:18:05+00:00
I think in real life there are more constraints. For example there are people that sleep better at a lower temperature than the daily one (so leaving the thermostat at the same temperature it's a minus for them).

Regarding "what is better" from energy efficiency, I would prefer a system that "check it" because my guess is that it depends a lot based on the individual situation. I mean everybody is going crazy over "IA" but a couple of sensors and a system smart enough to adjust your usage based on your particular situation and preferences (like "eco", etc.) is an exception.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-22 09:20:41+00:00
Our chief scam is crypto...crypto and tariffs...tariffs and crypto.... Our two scams are tariffs and crypto...and baffling inefficiency.... Our three scams are tariffs, crypto, and baffling inefficiency...and an unconstitutional devotion to Donald Trump.... Our four...no... Amongst our scams.... Amongst our scams...are such elements as tariffs, crypto.... I'll come in again.
by spease | 2025-04-22 09:20:42+00:00
> That's a great argument for selling drives, not for locking your devices down to practically require them

The counterargument is, people won’t listen and then blame Synology when their data is affected. At which point it may be too late for anything but attempting data recovery.

Sufficiently nontechnical users may blame the visible product (the NAS) even if the issue is some nuance to the parts choice made by a tech friend to keep it within their budget.

Synology is seen as the premium choice in the consumer NAS argument, so vertically integrating and charging a premium to guarantee “it just works” is not unprecedented.

There are definitely other NAS options as well, if someone is willing to take on more responsibility for understanding the tech.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-22 09:22:19+00:00
Now it's ultra-racist ultra-fascist Twitter management. Do you actually think that's better? Why are you whining about "woke" people who have long since been fired, but embracing the racists and fascists who are now running and being platformed and amplified on Twitter?

Yes, "Twitter". If Elon Musk can publicly abuse, humiliate, lie about, deadname, and misgender his own daughter to his millions of followers, than I can deadname Twitter.
by ben_w | 2025-04-22 09:22:50+00:00
> are more or less Ai doomers with no actual background in machine learning/ai I don't think why we should listen to them.

Weather vs. climate.

The question they're asking isn't about machine learning specifically, it's about the risks of generic optimisers optimising a utility function, and the difficulty of specifying a utility function in a way that doesn't have unfortunate side effects. The examples they give also work with biology (genetics and the difference between what your genes "want" and what your brain "wants") and with governance (laws and loopholes, cobra effects, etc.).

This is why a lot (I don't want to say "majority") of people who do have an actual background in machine learning and AI, pay attention to doomer arguments.

Some of them* may be business leaders using the same language to BS their way into regulatory capture, but my experience of "real" AI researchers is they're mostly also "safety is important, Yudkowsky makes good points about XYZ" even if they would also say "my P(doom) is only 10%, not 95% like Yudkowsky".

* I'm mainly thinking of Musk here, thanks to him saying "AI is summoning the demon" while also having an AI car company, funding OpenAI in the early years and now being in a legal spat with it that looks like it's "hostile takeover or interfere to the same end", funding another AI company, building humanoid robots and showing off ridiculous compute hardware, having brain implant chips, etc.
by croes | 2025-04-22 09:23:07+00:00
Task:

Create an imahe of an analog clock that show 09:30 a.m

Last time I checked ChatGPT failed miserably, took my 10 year old nephew a minute.

Maybe it's bad to extrapolate those trends beacuse there is no constant growth. How looked the same graph when self driving took off and how is it now?
by dusted | 2025-04-22 09:23:14+00:00
I remember this happening a lot when I was a child and teenager, mainly during and shortly after LAN parties, where we'd spend one or two entire days almost exclusively inside one or two virtual environments (like Action Quake or later, Day of Defeat), I remember how my brain "quantized" many of the sounds from physical environment into their closest equivalent of in-game sounds, such as footsteps, character sounds or gun sounds, for example, laying my very tired and head, spinning from a lack of sleep and overstimulation, down to rest on a pillow, it would be disorienting at first, and then as my breath rose and sunk the covers, I'd hear the sounds of the fabric as small cracks, like the footsteps constantly in my earphones during gameplay.. I'd walk around outside and see surfaces as more or less ideal for performing strafe-jumps (something we did a lot in the glorious Action Quake days), and think about good corners to round for a one on one shootout.

But honestly, it didn't feel so different from any other after-effect of intensive out-of-the-ordinary stimuli.. Think about the evening after a day of snowboarding, as you drift asleep, your brain starts to work its way down imaginary slopes, everything becomes transformed through the lens of snowboarding, rooftops becomes candidates for drops, piles of snow becomes ramps..

or when you've intensely learnt a new concept, your brain tries around it, to see if it somehow fits into what you've learnt.. Like how people learning about neural networks, can't help but go through at least a phase, where the idea of brains being computers are very appealing.

I don't think this "Game Transfer Phenomenon" is that novel or interesting, and most importantly, not related to games in particular.

It's just what the brain does when it engages in something.. it attempts to map and transfer concepts and relations, it's how we learn and grow..
by asdswe | 2025-04-22 09:27:43+00:00
I can hardly see the point for devices like this. If you are tech-savvy enough to host your own NAS locally, you might as well build your own NAS and install whatever user-friendly OS (Unraid, OpenMediaVault as an example) you wish. No vendor-lock in whatsoever that way. If you arent tech savvy enough, then you should probably use cloud storage anyway.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-04-22 09:28:17+00:00
The obvious solution is a "wake time" of 8 am, "leave time" of 8:01, "return" 8:02, "sleep" 8:03. Then just set the sleep temperature to your desired temp and the remaining ones to something reasonably close, or if it doesn't automatically switch between heating and air conditioning, set it for the no-op for the season (i.e. the highest possible temp in summer, and the lowest possible in winter) for those three minutes.
by sersi | 2025-04-22 09:29:19+00:00
My synology NAS is for my own use. I do not keep spare drives on hand, I would go to the nearby shop that's 20 minutes away from me to get a new drive. They wouldn't have synology branded drives but they have the toshiba MG series, Western Digital and Seagate.

Within my NAS, I have 2 different pool, 1 is for important data, it's 2 hard disk with SHR1 replicated to an offsite NAS. Another pool is for less important data (movies, etc), it's SHR1 with 5 hard disks, 75TB total capacity, none of the hard disks are the same batch or production date. Not having the data immediately is not a problem. Losing that data would suck but I'd rebuild so I'm fine not having a spare drive on hand.
by wickedsight | 2025-04-22 09:29:26+00:00
> the theory being that warming up a cold house in the morning costs more energy than maintaining a stable temperature

I've heard this theory a lot too, but it doesn't match with physics. A warm house loses more energy than a cold house, due to a higher temperature difference allowing easier heat transfer. So in most homes, with radiators and high temperature CV, it's way more efficient to just turn it off when you gone.

One exception is when you have a very well insulated house, combined with floor heating and a very efficient, low temperature heat pump. In this case, it takes a lot of time for temperature to move in the house and it's already incredibly efficient.
by anovikov | 2025-04-22 09:31:25+00:00
In reality, drones only matter because neither Ukraine nor Russia has a viable air force able to operate in SAM-rich environment, and they both ran out of artillery shells having to make do with the small amounts they can produce/buy. So it's not like that drones came out as superior to everything else, but everything else went out of business.

Drones are too low and too slow to counter planes. If either side had an air superiority, drones won't matter as theatre isolation will make them irrelevant.

If drones look like some uber weapon these days it's an aberration coming from archaic nature of both armies otherwise, at least now after their stock of munitions have been expended. Surely if there was a war of Iran vs Iraq nowadays, drones will probably be just as relevant. But not US vs China as both sides have workable air forces. And navies.
by numpad0 | 2025-04-22 09:31:25+00:00
It can't be programmatically identified because manufacturers actively hide them. There are ATA commands for that, DM-SMR drives lie to it.

I wouldn't be sure why Toshiba M-prefixed 7K2 drives would be bad for NAS use cases. They're descendants of what were used in high performance SPARC servers. Hot, dense, obnoxious, but that's just Fujitsu. They're plenty reliable, performant, and perfect for your all-important on-line/near-line data! You just have to look away from bills(/s).

0: https://www.techpowerup.com/265841/some-western-digital-wd-r...

1: https://www.techpowerup.com/265889/seagate-guilty-of-undiscl...

2: https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1313
by Vetch | 2025-04-22 09:31:48+00:00
LeBron is one of the rare individuals at that intersection of high athleticism and mental capability. It's why at the age of 40, well past his athletic prime, he's still a top NBA player. He has Magnus-level chunking ability enabling prodigious memory for games, he has fast processing and court vision, being able to leverage symmetries to automatically adjust for current player orientations to predict opponent plays. It's what allows him to make passes that seem impossible--he sees windows open up based on predicted player movements, not just current positions. Like that famous Wayne Gretzky quote.

It's a super rare archetype of athleticism/size+mental that only the likes of LeBron, Jokic and Magic Johnson have occupied (not meant to be an exhaustive list).
by clarionbell | 2025-04-22 09:31:57+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius The principle is simple. If something crosses it's Schwarzschild radius, it becomes a black hole. So if you had a very, very, obscenely large particle collider, you could start smashing heavy nuclei with enough force to get them within that radius. Then you would have to 'trap' the new micro-black hole in some way (possibly give it a charge) and 'feed' it more matter very, very quickly, before it evaporates.

The evaporation is a bit trickier, also known as Hawking radiation. It has not been observed yet, but it's one of those cases when we are pretty sure something like it must be going on. Otherwise we have even bigger hole in our understanding of the universe.

Theory is more difficult, but the practical effect is relatively obvious. Once the 'surface temperature' of black hole reaches over that of microwave background, it will begin to evaporate. The process is slow at first, but non-linear. As black hole evaporates, it loses mass, but the temperature actually rises.

Eventually, the process should end with a gamma ray burst.

There is a lot of unknown in that.

Right now we are very, very far from doing any of this. We would need to achieve much higher strength of magnetic fields before we could even consider this. It may turn out, that it's easier just to "catch" an existing micro-black hole. If they exist that is.
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-22 09:32:20+00:00
>The question they're asking isn't about machine learning specifically, it's about the risks of generic optimisers optimising a utility function, and the difficulty of specifying a utility function in a way that doesn't have unfortunate side effects. The examples they give also work with biology (genetics and the difference between what your genes "want" and what your brain "wants") and with governance (laws and loopholes, cobra effects, etc.).

But you do need some kind of base knowledge, if you want to talk about this. Otherwise you're saying "what if we create God". And last time I checked it wasn't possible.

And what's with the existential risk obsession? That's like a bad retelling of the Pascal bet on the existence of God.

I'm relieved that at least in italy I still have to find someone in Ai taking them into consideration for more than a few minutes during an ethics course (with students sneering at the ideas of bostrom possible futures), and again, it's held by a professor with no technical knowledge with whom i often disagree due to this
by jitl | 2025-04-22 09:33:50+00:00
Time is money, I would rather buy a NAS these days even though in the past I ran my own FreeBSD ZFS server NAS. Much cheaper use of my time to pay a 2-3x premium on hardware if it means I spend 4 hours on build and 1 hour on admin per year vs 12 hours build, 6 hours admin per year.
by fifticon | 2025-04-22 09:35:15+00:00
To elaborate on that: They were the handle on the code lines, for anything. You would often use the line number to either edit a given line number, or to remove it. 'Clever' people would even do mis-guided arithmetic on them, e.g.

GOTO MenuChoiceNum\*100 + 1000 GOSUB MenuChoiceNum\*100 + 1000
by eddguzzo | 2025-04-22 09:35:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MA Weight because most weight trackers show noisy day-to-day changes. I built MA Weight to focus on the actual trend. I’ve used apps like MyFitnessPal to log my weight, but the lack of trend analysis made it frustrating.I also couldn’t find any good option that works on the Web without having to download an app.

MA Weight is a simple web app that smooths out daily fluctuations using exponential moving averages, so you can see your actual progress over time.

Key features:

No sign-up required to start using it

Trendline based on exponential moving average

Manual entry (no device syncing needed)

Import/export your data

Optional login to access your data across devices

Would love to hear what you think or how you’d improve it!

Thanks!
by marginalia_nu | 2025-04-22 09:35:41+00:00
I expect this is fairly domain dependent. Not all programming is CRUD endpoints, some of it is genuinely finicky.

At least for me, one example of such programming is low-level database adjacent systems programming, it can take an extreme amount of fiddling to get it to work as you intended, even if you have a clear idea of what you want to implement.

Though, in the cases where the last part is hard and time consuming, LLM-based tools are not going to be of particularly big help (and in fact, is personally where I tend to disable CoPilot because it is more likely to be a distraction than useful).