MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IMTDb | 2025-04-22 12:31:38+00:00
When Elon took over; the rules were clearly laid out: buy your checkmark for $7/month (not sure of the price). Pay and you get it; stop paying and you loose it. Everybody knows exactly what it means.

Before that it was: "Someone will give you the checkmark if they like what you say enough and/or if you are deemed 'popular enough' according to an obscure committee; likely a combination of both. But there is a certain threshold above which it does not matter what you way, and you will always be verified". You could loose your checkmark on the whim of some dude who got his latte order wrong in the morning. No one was ever given the rulebook. In fact there was no rulebook. Checkmark just meant "I went to a bar with a Twitter employee and we agreed on a lot of things".

The same thing will happen to Bluesky. The system is akin to how CA and SSL does work with a critical difference. To get an SSL certificate, there is a clear step-by-step guide on how to get it. And after it has been granted it isn't revoked regardless of wether DigiCert agrees with the content of your website.
by lambdaone | 2025-04-22 12:32:50+00:00
One thing which has not been mentioned in this discussion is that the wholesale market price of power at any given time is substantially driven by the marginal cost of generation.

When renewables (including storage) can't take up the entire load of the system, that marginal generation is nowadays going to be gas power, and right now the global price of gas is unprecedentedly high.

To simplify things somewhat; the larger the fraction of the time gas generation can be turned off, the lower the annualised price of electricity will be. At the moment, we are already seeing renewables taking up 100% of the load for short periods. As more renewable capacity gets built, those periods will get longer and longer, this effect will get ever larger. In some countries this effect is expected to become significant within the next five years, even at current rates of progress, and will only get better as time goes on.

Lower annualised electrical prices will be good for the economy and the individual, and encouraging this should be a priority for any rational government which thinks more than a few years ahead.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-22 12:33:03+00:00
Okay, I admit the "badly designed" part is my claim, but I'm very confident in that claim and can explain why.

The original impetus that led to MNG was animated GIF. While GIF was also designed as extensible, GIF practically only had a handful number of extensions and wasn't that complex. MNG in comparison was essentially a binary version of SVG as I have described, except that it had no vector graphics and can more accurately be described as a binary slideshow format [1]. No one asked for this! The PNG development group forgot its goal and made a much bloated specification. As a result libmng, while working, was a quite big library to be incorporated into Gecko and ultimately rejected in favor of APNG which only required a small patch to libpng. It is amusing that the original PNG specification had chunks corresponding to GIF extensions including animation one; those chunks might have been widespread in the alternate universe!

If the group's goal was indeed a slideshow format, it should have been two separate formats, one for multi-part images and one for animations and object transformations. The former is necessary because one aspect of GIF was that a difference from the previous frame can be encoded, so this "Delta-PNG" format should have been made into the mainline PNG specification as an option. (These additional images could have been used as previews, for example.) And anything else should be a simple textual format that refers to external files. MNG instead had chunks for JPEG images---came with its standalone sister format called JNG---, which is absurd when you think about it---why should there be JNG when JFIF and Exif already exist? The modern SVG happens to be perfectly usable as this second format, and it is fine being textual.

[1] If you can't believe what I've said, see the table of contents of the actual specification: http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/
by poofsoda | 2025-04-22 12:33:19+00:00
The intro paragraph makes it pretty clear IMO:

“The review paper is a staple of medical literature and, when well executed by an expert in the field, can provide a summary of literature that generates useful recommendations and new conceptualizations of a topic. However, if research results are selectively chosen, a review has the potential to create a convincing argument for a faulty hypothesis. Improper correlation or extrapolation of data can result in dangerously flawed conclusions. The following paper seeks to illustrate this point, using existing research to argue the hypothesis that cigarette smoking enhances endurance performance and should be incorporated into high-level training programs.”
by boredemployee | 2025-04-22 12:33:56+00:00
"It’s about maintaining the human element in a craft that’s increasingly automated."

I mean, what can anyone do, anyway? We’ve been on a "quest" toward the total automation of work for decades! and unfortunately these reflections are coming far too late.

didn’t anyone notice what was happening all these years?

Talking with a musician friend, he pointed out that today, studying, producing, and releasing music is almost volunteer work because the vast majority of artists will likely see no return on their investment, especially with AI flooding the music platforms, so I really expect it to happen to many other jobs.
by troupo | 2025-04-22 12:34:08+00:00
> If you give a junior an overly broad prompt, they are going to have to do a ton of

> they're tools that are incredibly effective when used on the correct type of problem with the right type of prompt.

So, a junior developer who has to be told exactly what to do.

As for the "correct type of problem with the right type of prompt", what exactly are those?
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-22 12:34:51+00:00
A simple filter may still do wonder if it is carefully chosen ;-)

The apparent death of HALIC was indeed unfortunate, I've heard that its decoder was less than 1K lines of code so it must have had a carefully designed and optimized context model in its heart. But there are so many other formats that are F/OSS but weren't highlighted enough anyway...
by pantalaimon | 2025-04-22 12:35:23+00:00
> How does it compare to the current RISC-V leader, ESWIN SiFive P550?

I couldn't find many benchmarks of the P550, but at Phoronix it got beaten by a Raspberry Pi 4

https://www.phoronix.com/review/sifive-hifive-premier-p550

which the 3A6000 beats easiely

https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Loongson-3A6000,AR...
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-04-22 12:35:30+00:00
Yeah no one ever mentions that for most people weed spikes your blood pressure really high. Add in an adderall prescription, and an underling heart condition that none of my various negligent doctors ever noticed, and boom 6 years later I have a life threatening anuerysm in my Aorta.

But yeah weed is totally harmless and adderall has no negative effects for individuals diagnosed with adhd. Sure.
Ask HN: Are you running production workloads in Pytorch eager mode?
by stdcall83 | 2025-04-22 12:36:56+00:00
I have an idea for optimizations using a dedicated backend for pytorch. It only applies to eager mode execution. From my understanding, eager mode is used for development and debugging. Are there real production workloads that work in that way ? I assume people optimize by compiling graphs using JIT but then again, people are lazy...
by belorn | 2025-04-22 12:37:16+00:00
That is very surprising. Looking at the statistics collected from the Swedish grid (https://svensksolenergi.se/statistik/elproduktion-fran-solen... ,first graph), the winter months are close to zero in output. December 2024 were 35 GWH, while May 2024 were 765 GWH. In 2023, December were 14 GWH, while May were 579 GWH

It is not absolute zero, but it kind of close, and there is a large period that storage would need to fill. For Sweden it is also the inverse for the demand spike, with winter demanding more energy than during the summer.
by bjourne | 2025-04-22 12:37:23+00:00
I don't get why they decided to create all these very complicated extensions before even getting solid hardware for the base instruction set. RVV support is many, many years into the future and I bet many of its instructions will be micro coded since they aren't very useful for compilers anyway. Specifying standards for the future before you have working prototypes is very (ahaha) risky.
by mcflubbins | 2025-04-22 12:38:04+00:00
As I've gotten older (in my late 30s) I've enjoyed the sensation less and less. I find myself getting stuck in loops of thinking or actions. It wrecks my sleep schedule, and in the worst cases gives me some anxiety (and I don't normally suffer from anxiety.) I just don't enjoy it any more, though it does give me motivation for mundane tasks like cleaning the house, etc. Jut not worth it for me.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-22 12:38:15+00:00
This is silicon valley and particularly Musk's logic put into practice in the government. Look at how they talk about driverless cars.

"Automobile deaths are bad and numerous, we want to get rid of them with driverless cars, which will kill people in the course of their development, but that's okay because remember we told you about the deaths we will prevent in the future? Therefore we can expend as many lives as we want now because by doing so we will save infinite lives. This is why we must be permitted to operate beta robots on public roads."

The rationale continues on to starship and neuralink. We have to go to Mars to save humanity, therefore you must tolerate starships exploding and destroying the ecosystem over your house. We have to invent this important medical device to save people, therefore we must conduct morally gray research on implanting devices into human brains. The justifications and rationalizations are endless.
by ben_w | 2025-04-22 12:38:28+00:00
Physical hardware isn't a good argument against risk.

The hardware we ourselves are dependent on is increasingly automated; and even if it wasn't, there's plenty of failure modes where an agent destroys its own host and then itself dies off. Happens with predator-prey dynamics, happens with cancer, happens with ebola. People are worried it will happen with human-caused environmental degradation.

> Rather than covid picture armed Boston Dynamics dogs except there are multiple different factions and some of them are at least loosely in favor of preventing the wanton murder of humans.

Or imagine an LLM, with no hardware access at all, that's just used for advice. Much better than current ones, so that while it still has some weird edge cases where it makes mistakes (because the humans it learned from would also make mistakes), it's good enough that everyone ends up just trusting it the way we trust Google Maps for directions. (Trust is the key: people already trust current LLMs more than they ought to, so the quality of this hypothetical future LLM doesn't need to be high enough to logically deserve the trust, just good enough for real people to actually use it like this).

And then we metaphorically drive over the edge of a destroyed bridge.

Putting too much trust in a system — to the extent everyone just blindly accepts the answer — is both normal, and dangerous. At every level, from "computer says no" in customer support roles, to Bay of Pigs, to the 2007 financial crisis, to the Irish potato famine and the famine in the Great Leap Forward, etc.

It won't be a mistake along the lines of "there's a fire in Las Vegas and not enough water to put them out, so let's empty the dams in north California that aren't hydrologically connected" followed by six months later "Why are the farms in Central Valley not producing any food?"

But here's an open question with current tech: are algorithmic news feeds and similar websites, which optimise for engagement, making themselves so engaging that they preclude real social connection, and thereby reduce fertility?

Or another: are dating apps and websites motivated to keep people paying subscriptions, and therefore inherently prefer to pair people together only if they're going to split quickly afterwards and be back in the dating market, again leading to lower fertility rates?

There's many ways to die — More than we can count, which is why we're vulnerable. If it was just about killer robots, we could say "don't build killer robots"*. The problem is that you could fill a library with non-fiction books about people who have already lived, getting exactly what they wished for and regretting it.

* for now, at least — Red Queen race dynamics mean that even that isn't stable in the long run.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-22 12:38:40+00:00
This is about a specific condition but it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone really.

I remember when there was a huge push on reddit and everywhere to decriminalize and later legalize marijuana and I was a supporter of the movement and still support it but only as a liberty principle. After getting into smoking it regularly in college I had the chance to meet long time users and without exception all of them had cognitive issues. One day I was late for a party and everyone was high when I arrived and I realized that I simply can't stand them because everything they said was the lowest IQ stuff I ever heard and they were pretending that its creative. Quit the thing and never looked back.

Stick to the alcohol and drink within the culture of it and you will be fine. It is bad for your body even at small quantities but at least you keep your mind intact and alcohol actually enhances the creativity by lowering your guard and not interfering with your intelligence. The culture part is important, binge drinking can be fun at college at times but the culture I'm referring is the culture where alcohol is being consumed socially together with some food or at event. Avoid drinking alone and other high risk activities associated with drinking.

I keep reading about how alcohol consumption is dropping, pubs are closing and this makes me sad because I see how young people lock themselves into apartments and smoke weed all day. I don't believe that anything good comes out of it, no wonder the loneliness epidemic is destroying the world.

It's a very unpopular opinion and in some countries drinking only means getting smashed but trust me, there's another way. With weed, there's no another way.

Anyway, here's something fun to watch on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTSCppeFzX4
by nu11ptr | 2025-04-22 12:39:04+00:00
I find this a confusing reply. First, you seem to be confusing eager string interpolation with this lazy/deferred templating feature. I'm specifically asking about languages that have the latter. More confusingly, you bring up the language under discussion as an example... if it already had this feature, they wouldn't be adding a new feature.

Then, you bring up 3rd party templating solutions, but this is off topic, as we are talking about language builtins. I am well aware there are many templating solutions to solve text templating in general.

In summary, I'm specifically asking for examples of languages that allow string interpolation with _deferred/lazy_ processing, which is how I understand this feature. It seems there are a few, but it doesn't seem to be terribly common after reading the other comments.
by sumtechguy | 2025-04-22 12:40:31+00:00
I am very capable of building my own. But the plug and play of it is really nice. I basically popped in some drives and had a share up and running in a couple of hours. The same sort with DIY was do a part picker list build it (1-2 days) and then pop the drives in then figure out how to configure it correctly (another day or so because I do it very rarely). Then at that point yeah for what I use it for they are equivalent. Other than now I get to keep track of the CVE's that syno is doing for me with the occasional patch. Now I could put a stripped linux distro or trunas or something like that and get the same. Possible and ease of use are also a spectrum to weigh against. When you are young you have all the time you need. When you are older you just want to put it together and serve some files and do something else, because I have done this 6 times already.

But there is actually one reason I am going DIY next time. 'uname -a'. They ship with very old kernels. I suspect the other utilities are in the same shape. They have not updated their base system in a long time. I suspect they have basically left all of the amazing changes the kernels have had over the past decade out. They are randomly cherry picking things. Which is fine. But it has to be creating a 'fun' support environment.
by nerdjon | 2025-04-22 12:41:46+00:00
How much of a market is there really for those apps? They are competing against most consumers accepting the ease (and significantly cheaper) of cloud based storage.

We (in the tech space) can scream privacy and risks of the cloud all day long but most consumers seem to just not care.

I have 2 Synology NAS and the only app that I actually use is Synology Drive thanks to the sync app, but there are open source alternatives that would work better and not require a client on the NAS side to work.

I can't imagine any enterprise would be using these features.

Been in the market for a new NAS myself and I am going to be looking into truenas or keep an eye on what Ubiquity is doing in this space (but its a no go until they add the ability to communicate with a UPS).
by athrowaway3z | 2025-04-22 12:42:17+00:00
As a technical problem to correlate # bytes @ time is just a very simple and you don't need a PhD to solve. Its a matter of how many measurement points on the network you have available.

Having said that. I doubt they checked and who cares where it landed? Its out.

Occam's Razor on doge (and the admin as a whole) points to opportunist amateurs, fraternizing on bravado & loyalty while willing to entertain treason by jumping through hoops for why it can't bother them.

Looking for deeper layers is a distraction. Nostalgic even.

I can empathize.
by hobs | 2025-04-22 12:43:18+00:00
Pretty weird that "go drink yourself to death instead" is the top comment on HN. Stinkin Thinking is what my grandmother used to say about people making decisions on booze, its not some magic defense against neurodegenerative stuff. Nobody should be defending some dumb stoners, but the idea that you can protect your mental health by hard drinking is deeply unsupported by science.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7488355/

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has been associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Prolonged excessive alcohol intake contributes to increased production of reactive oxygen species that triggers neuroimmune response and cellular apoptosis and necrosis via lipid peroxidation, mitochondrial, protein or DNA damage. Long term binge alcohol consumption also upregulates glutamate receptors, glucocorticoids and reduces reuptake of glutamate in the central nervous system, resulting in glutamate excitotoxicity, and eventually mitochondrial injury and cell death. In this review, we delineate the following principles in alcohol-induced neurodegeneration: (1) alcohol-induced oxidative stress, (2) neuroimmune response toward increased oxidants and lipopolysaccharide, (3) glutamate excitotoxicity and cell injury, and (4) interplay between oxidative stress, neuroimmune response and excitotoxicity leading to neurodegeneration and (5) potential chronic alcohol intake-induced development of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Show HN: SDK for AI Coding with Long Running Tasks
by sean_ | 2025-04-22 12:43:32+00:00
It seems that using Cursor has become really repetitive. My workflow typically goes like this: - Get a task to accomplish on a codebase - Research the web and codebase to create a plan - Send the entire plan to cursor and sit back for it to finish

This flow works really well with a high level of accuracy for the most part and it's becoming obvious that the margin between where it is today and "perfect" is quickly closing.

Because of this flow, I feel that I can replicate it through an SDK that uses a AI cli coder tool with low level control.

In this SDK, you can also use the best coder in the world per: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

As shown here:

```python from cloudcode import Local import os

def main(): # Use the current directory cwd = os.getcwd() example_file = "example.py"

# Initialize the Aider SDK in architect mode agent = Local( working_dir=cwd, model="o3", # Main (planner) model editor_model="gpt-4.1", # Editor model for implementing changes architect_mode=True, use_git=False, api_key=os.getenv("CLOUDCODE_API_KEY") ) # Create or overwrite a simple Python file to modify using the SDK agent.create_file( example_file, """def add(a, b): return a + b

""" )

# Run a coding task using the two-model workflow result = agent.code( prompt="make this function super cool. just make the math functions better", editable_files=[example_file] ) # Print the results print("\nTask completed!") print(f"Success: {result['success']}") print("\nChanges made:") print(result["diff"]) # Display cost information print("\nTask completed!")

if __name__ == "__main__": main()

```

Given that you can mimic your workflows from cursor and claude code into this sdk, you shouldn't have to sit around on your computer waiting for the long running task to finish.

That's why I built in a Sandbox class that mounts the ai coder into a remote sandbox directory instead of a local folder so you can deploy an ai coder to the cloud, enabling use cases such as coding from your phone and the browser.

I have already found so many low-handing fruit use cases for this sdk to automate prompting, information gathering, and auto-docs as shown in our github https://github.com/LMSystems-ai/cloud-coding

But I want to take it a step further.

You can get started for free today with this sdk and see our favorable pricing model here: https://docs.cloudcoding.ai/pricing
by michaelt | 2025-04-22 12:45:36+00:00
Honestly they got into the NAS business when cloud offerings were different, and many Internet connections were a lot slower.

Synology’s market is the intersection of:

People who have lots of pirated media, who want generous storage with torrent capabilities.

People who want to store CCTV feeds.

People who find the cloud too expensive, or feel it isn’t private enough.

People with a “two is one, one is none” backup philosophy, for whom the cloud alone is not enough.

Tiny businesses that just need a windows file share.