MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by morsch | 2025-04-22 05:36:04+00:00
You stay associated, but other than that: yes.

Logging entirely out and back in every 200 ms would be bad, because associating is expensive and it probably takes longer than 200 ms, at least if you also want to do anything useful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11e-2005#APSD
by gilgoomesh | 2025-04-22 05:36:26+00:00
These don't appear to be intended as watermarks. They're merely a valid use of non-breaking space for tightly coupled elements like "2.5 billion" and "Title I".

Sure, a human author would almost never do that, but they could. I could imagine a Markdown syntax that did that – it could be done similar to how `code` is marked up in most blogs.
Show HN: Phended – Cybersecurity Education for Non-Tech Folks
by fathermarz | 2025-04-22 05:37:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Phended, a cybersecurity education site focused on making defensive knowledge approachable—especially for small businesses and non-technical users who don’t have time to dig through jargon-filled resources.

Right now, it’s a mix of free tools, guides, and checklists, with a chatbot assistant named Dave who helps answer questions. I’m gearing up for a full refresh as I build out more content and structure things better, so it’s still early days—but I’d love to get feedback before I go too deep into the overhaul.

Some stuff I’m planning

- More actionable guides and incident playbooks - An LMS for structured learning - A self-serve phishing simulation tool (potentially) - Better UX all around

The current roadmap is public, and I’d love any thoughts, critique, or encouragement. Thanks!
by senectus1 | 2025-04-22 05:40:46+00:00
I have a DS920+ for home lab purposes that I'm very happy with, but this sort of bullshit is going to make me drop that brand from any future recommendations or purchases.

I'm likely to go down the BYO NAS path going forward. Just a stupid customer punishing policy. A real slap in the face.

I bought a N100 based device from AliExpress that supports two drives for my backup server. its a cracker and runs debian wonderfully. Very smooth and responsive. runs quietly and transfers data fairly quickly.
by latchkey | 2025-04-22 05:41:11+00:00
I wrote this on Twitter under my Hot Aisle account. We deploy AMD hardware and make it for rent to anyone that wants it.

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I don’t think people realize how big this is. When we started, we wanted to virtualize GPUs, meaning allocate 1 GPU to 1 VM, but quickly found it wasn’t possible. We were missing AMD’s GIM driver, which has only now been made publicly available.

This is important because AMD MI hardware is still new to most developers. These chips have mostly been used in supercomputers like El Capitan and Frontier, with very limited access. Handing a developer an entire box of these is overwhelming, both technically and financially. Most just want to try a single GPU first.

Virtualization can be combined with self-service access, and per-second billing. Developers can easily use this hardware without long contracts or sales calls. That’s exactly what we’ve been building, and we’re getting closer to making it publicly available.

Over time, more developers using AMD means more code, more adoption, more hardware sales, and more growth. We’re finally able to execute our vision and lead that shift.
by neilv | 2025-04-22 05:45:26+00:00
All the examples of non-breaking spaces that they showed were arguably places where someone nicely typesetting might well do the same thing. For example, in "FY 2025", or "$8.7 billion". (I've even done this a lot myself in the past.)

I wouldn't call this a watermark, but more a sign of likely copy&paste, if students' word processors weren't currently doing that.

A "watermark" that invisibly identifies the text origin using Unicode tricks sounds possible.

And maybe you could do some things with statistical patterns.

Or you could, as some have done in the past, is to stego the identifying information in a way that's hard to spot but can't be denied later (e.g., the first letter of each word clearly spells out "john smith is a cheater who copied this from chatgpt").
by ryao | 2025-04-22 05:45:34+00:00
> It’s a lot more nuanced than that. Being in a data center doesn’t imply heavy network utilization.

I suggest you reread “software used in datacenters (e.g. by CDNs) that does use it”. This is not a reference to software in a datacenter. It is a reference to software in a datacenter that uses it, which is a subset of the former.
by toast0 | 2025-04-22 05:46:12+00:00
For Skylake, Intel ran 16 lanes of pci-e to the CPU, and ran DMI to the chipset, which had pci-e lanes behind it. Depending on the chipset, there would be anywhere from 6 lanes at pci-e 2.0 to 20 lanes at pci-e 3.0. My wild guess is that a board from back then would have put m.2 behind the chipset and no cpu attached ssd for you; that fits with your report of the GPU having all 16 lanes.

But, if you had the nicer chipsets, wikipedia says your board could split the 16 cpu lanes into two x8 slots or one x8 and 2 x4 slots, which would fit. This would usually be dynamic at boot time, not at runtime; the firmware would typically look if anything is in the x4 slots and if so, set bifurcation, otherwise the x16 gets all the lanes. Some motherboards do have PCI-e switches to use the bandwidth more flexibly, but those got really expensive; i think at the transition to pci-e 4.0, but maybe 3.0?
by whateveracct | 2025-04-22 05:48:25+00:00
> These are not lies and you should not lie, because if you go counterfactual, that will be found out.

You can go counterfactual with your "professional opinion," which is useful in debates with no clear answer when your opinion has sway. It's a great way to put your thumb on the scale, and unless you say wildly inconsistent things very visibly, you will not be found out.
by puzzlingcaptcha | 2025-04-22 05:48:52+00:00
>PCIe slots are becoming an endangered species on modern motherboards

Except... not at all? Just about any ATX-sized motherboard is going to have a full-sized X4 slot and a small X1 slot _in addition_ to the X16 one.

And with decent audio and 2.5GBps ethernet PHY on board even those slots often sit disused.

I mean, want to test goofy hardware - go for it, no need to invent a justification.
by ajb | 2025-04-22 05:49:27+00:00
My previous employer made kit computers for kids. One day a mum turned up at the office with her boy, complaining that the speaker on the product has started making an unpleasant noise.

The conversation then went a bit like this:

Head of support: well you know, there isn't supposed to be a round hole in the middle. It looks like it's been damaged. In fact, it looks like a pen was pushed into it.

Mum: [Aghast] (to the boy) did you push a pen through the speaker?!!

After some shuffling the boy admitted that he had. At that point the mum was just going to leave in embarrassment, but our head of support insisted that she take a spare speaker, after having come all that way. No doubt the boy got an earful on the way back.
by vintermann | 2025-04-22 05:49:45+00:00
> Minimizing loss over aggregates is what a statistical model is designed to do, so if you evaluate human judgment against statistical predictions in aggregate on data similar to what the model was trained on, then you should expect statistical prediction to win

This reminds me of the many years machine translation was evaluated on BLEU towards reference translations, because they didn't know any better ways. Turns out that if you measure translation quality by n-gram precision towards a reference translation, then methods based on n-gram precision (such as the old pre-NMT Google translate) were really hard to beat.
by chrisandchris | 2025-04-22 05:50:43+00:00
That was my first thought too. I am currently a very happy Synology customer and am selling them to B2B customers for storage.

I will still have to come accross something like Hyper Vault for backup and Drive for storage that works (mostly) smoothless. I would be happy to self-host, but the No Work Needed (tm) products of Synology are just great.

Sad to see them taking this road.
by mschild | 2025-04-22 05:51:15+00:00
I've been looking into a NAS myself.

I think self-built is the best bang for buck you're going to get and not have any annoying limitations.

There's plenty of motherboards with integrated CPUs (N100 same as cheaper Ugreen ones) for roughly 100. Buy a decent PSU and get an affordable case. For my configuration with a separate AMD CPU I'm looking at right around 400 Euros but I get total control.

And as far as software is concerned, setting up a modern OS like TrueNAS I find about the same difficulty as an integrated one from Ugreen.
by tuchsen | 2025-04-22 05:51:44+00:00
You're spot on, I've been doing Doordash on an e-bike on the weekends for exercise and the wait times are BS because everyone orders lunch/dinner at the same time and they're in essentially a random queue with everyone else who orders. Add to that multiple pick ups and drop offs and you've got a mess.

Talking to people really does help though, everyone wants to be more forgiving when you remind them theirs a human factor involved in getting the food to them.
by nopinsight | 2025-04-22 05:52:13+00:00
> software engineering skills are easier to train than other skills.

I think the author meant it's easier to train (reasoning) LLM models on [coding] skills than most other tasks. I agree on that. Data abundance, near-immediate feedback, and near-perfect simulators are why we've seen such rapid progress on most coding benchmarks so far.

I'm not sure if he included high-level software engineering skills such as designing the right software architecture for a given set of user requirements in that statement.

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For humans, I think the fundamentals of coding are very natural and easy for people with certain mental traits, although that's obviously not the norm (which explains the high wages for some software engineers).

Coding on large, practical software systems is indeed much more complex with all the inherent and accidental complexity. The latter helps explain why AI agents for software engineering will require some human involvement until we actually reach full-fledged AGI.
by Renaud | 2025-04-22 05:52:16+00:00
Synology isn't about the NAS hardware and OS. Once setup, it doesn't really matter as long as your config is reliable and fast, so there are many competitive options to move to.

The killer feature for me is the app ecosystem. I have a very old 8-bay Synology NAS and have it setup in just a few clicks to backup my dropbox, my MS365 accounts, my Google business accounts, do redundant backup to external drive, backup important folders to cloud, and it was also doing automated torrent downloads of TV series.

These apps, and more (like family photos, video server, etc), make the NAS a true hub for everything data-related, not just for storing local files.

I can understand Synology going this way, it puts more money in their pocket, and as a customer in professional environment, I'm ok to pay a premium for their approved drives if it gives me an additional level of warranty and (perceived) safety.

But enforcing this accross models used by home or soho users is dumb and will affect the good will of so many like me, who both used to buy Synology for home and were also recommending/purchasing the brand at work.

This is a tech product, don't destroy your tech fanbase.

I would rather Synology kept a list of drives to avoid based on user experience, and offer their Synology-specific drives with a generous warranty for pro environments. Hel, I would be ok with sharing stats about drive performance so they could build a useful database for all.

They way they reduce the performance of their system to penalise non-synology rebranded drives is bascially a slap in the face of their customers. Make it a setting and let the user choose to use the NAS their bought to its full capabilities.
by quinnirill | 2025-04-22 05:52:20+00:00
It’s not necessarily punishment, e.g. leaving an abusive partner is in most cases about self-preservation, and if intended as a punishment, very ineffective at that. That said, I think a lot of people who end up at the receiving end of it do tend to try to spin it as a punishment due to self-centered thinking and in order to frame themselves as the victim.
Ask HN: Should I Take a Risk?
by confusedswe | 2025-04-22 05:54:27+00:00
I’m 22, a new grad, and recently joined a startup as my first full-time job. I’m struggling: I don’t like my work, and the founder’s attitude towards me and the team feels disrespectful and demotivating. The culture isn’t what I hoped for, and I’m finding it hard to stay motivated.

I’ve always wanted to try building something of my own, and my family advises me that now is the best time—no financial burdens, no dependents, and I live at home with family support. My family is also happy to fund my ventures. But I’m doubtful:

- Will I “waste” a year or two and hurt my career prospects if my ventures don't work out? - Is it better to stick it out and get more experience first, or just take the leap while I have the safety net? My safety net would essentially last only upto a year and a half or two years.

For those who’ve been in a similar situation—leaving a job you dislike to start something on your own—what did you do? What do you wish you’d done differently? Any advice on making this decision, or about how it turned out for you, would be really appreciated.

Footnote: My current work env is really demoralizing, like struggling to wake up in the morning to go in, and I am scared of my founder and being transparent.
by spit2wind | 2025-04-22 05:54:49+00:00
> MIT requires attribution, but they didn't

I'm confused how you and others reach this conclusion. No, it doesn't.

The MIT license is one of the shortest free license that exists:

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

No where does that require attribution. It has basically one condition: perpetuate the license.

Maybe the author didn't actually use an MIT license, despite claiming to? But as far as the MIT license is concerned, as long as the other party provides the same license for the fork, that's all that's needed.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-22 05:55:24+00:00
> > My personal thought is that we need a new kind of license: community open source. No corporations, just community.

> You are going exactly against the OSS philosophy.

GPL is almost that: community, because if you want to use it in a commercial product you have to make sources available, not to the community but to those who ask for it.

I'm of the opinion that open source is a business tool, and one should use a license that helps one achieve business goals. Those goals can be very personal and about career advancement, or they can be those of a trillion dollar corporation. TFA might benefit from using GPL if they are upset at what MSFT did, or they might work with MSFT to have their work integrated into the original to end the fork, or...
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-22 05:56:14+00:00
You could read Kurt Godels paper,but it's literally undecyperable. The book is one on the best reads ever. It will also teach you how to think in very very formal ways. It made Calculus half the class it was, and I breezed through finite math.

Propositional Calulus will teach you to think in symbols you cannot even fathom. This alone is worth every minute reading the book.

Every few years I reread it, and get a new sense of solving problems. The book can be divided into parts... But the whole...
by Terr_ | 2025-04-22 05:56:32+00:00
It somehow became the bete noir of anti-vaxxers, tracing back to faked research in 1998. [0] In order for them to maximize the villainy of vaccines, they have to maximize the disablement of whatever group they claim are victims.

Why they act that way, why they need something to blame something on vaccines, and why autism happens to be the target... well, that's a much longer story that probably involves psychology papers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud
by GeertJohan | 2025-04-22 05:56:37+00:00
I use TrueNAS Scale as root OS and have it run a Linux VM, which is easily done via their 'Virtualization' feature. No need for Proxmox. Afaik it works a lot better to give zfs direct access to underlying hdds. TrueNAS also has an 'Apps' feature, which are basically glorified helm chart installs on k3s that TrueNAS installs for you. But I prefer more control so I have k8s on the Linux VM. Whats also great is that the k8s on the Linux VM can use the TrueNAS storage via democratic-csi.

https://github.com/democratic-csi/democratic-csi
by toast0 | 2025-04-22 05:56:52+00:00
Nope, for AM5, both of the available chipsets[1] have 4 serial ports that can be configured as x4 pci-e 3.0, 4x sata, or two and two. I think Intel does similar, but I haven't really kept up.

[1] A620 is cut down, but everything else is actually the same chip (or two)
by cryptonector | 2025-04-22 05:58:23+00:00
> > MIT requires attribution, but they didn't

> I'm confused how you and others reach this conclusion. No, it doesn't.

| Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> | | ... | | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The copyright notice that must be preserved includes the copyright holders' names, and that is a form of attribution.
by thih9 | 2025-04-22 05:58:25+00:00
Interesting. I’m guessing this is “top 1%” based on some test or within some platform; and the name was omitted.

E.g. he is a board member at Metaculous, an online forecasting platform. Also:

> On his free time, Peter makes money in prediction markets and is quickly becoming one of the top forecasters on Metaculus

https://theinsideview.ai/peter

> For certain projects Metaculus employs Pro Forecasters who have demonstrated excellent forecasting ability and who have a history of clearly describing their rationales.

https://www.metaculus.com/pro-forecasters/
by arghandugh | 2025-04-22 06:00:21+00:00
Twitter is now specifically and intentionally a machine for developing degenerate people and patterns working towards degenerate ends. It is no longer a system useful for finding "unlike" entities.

As it is also the personal mouthpiece (and semen receptacle) for the richest and most deoxygenated freak ever created by our species it represents an existential threat to the continuation of a livable planet.

So yeah I guess Bluesky users do have some "attitude" towards Twitter. It's a natural consequence of distancing yourself from abomination.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-04-22 06:02:11+00:00
You must have read these quotes or wise-sayings already:

* You will miss all the shots you don't take.

* You will learn more from your failures & mistakes than your successes.

* Magic happens outside your comfort zone!

Life is short. Don't work with toxic people or toxic work environments. It is like death by thousand cuts.

Let me know if you want to reach out to me.
by idw | 2025-04-22 06:02:20+00:00
If you're going to start something, you need to be running to it not running from something else.

Running your own thing can be great but will be hard. The culture may well not be what you hoped for, and you may well find it hard to stay motivated. The team may well feel disrespectful and demotivating. You may not even like the founder’s attitude towards you before too long.

Personal opinion, worth what you paid for it.
by Hamuko | 2025-04-22 06:02:45+00:00
>This is the same product.

Confusingly "Glacier" is both its own product, which stores data in "vaults", and a family of storage tiers on Amazon S3, which stores data in "buckets". I think Glacier the product is deprecated though, since accessing the Glacier dashboard immediately recommends using Glacier the S3 storage tiers instead.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-22 06:03:15+00:00
always run the previous drive gen space.

i budget 300usd each, for 2 or 3 drivers. that is always the sweet spot since forever. get the largest enterprise model for exactly that price.

that was 2tb 10yrs ago. 10tb 5yrs ago.

so 5yrs ago i rebuilt storage on those 10tb drivers but only using 2tb volumes (coulda be 5, but i was still keeping the last gen size as data haven't grow), now my old drivers are spares/monthly off-machine copies. i used one when getting a warranty for a failed new 10tb one btw.

now i can get 20tb drivers for that price, i will probably still only increase the volumes to 10tb at most and have two spares.
by manmal | 2025-04-22 06:04:58+00:00
As far as I understand it works like this:

1. Small model generates k tokens (probably k>=4 or even higher, there‘s a tradeoff to be made here, depending on the model sizes)

2. Big model processes all k tokens‘ logits (probabilities) in parallel.

3. Ideally, all tokens pass the probability threshold. That might be the case for standard phrases that the model likes to use, like „Alright, the user wants me to“. If not all tokens pass the probability threshold, then the first unsuitable token and all after are discarded.

4. Return to 1., maybe with an adjusted k.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-22 06:05:33+00:00
> LLMs have general intelligence.

No they don't. That's the key part you keep assuming without justification. Interestingly enough you haven't responded to my other comment [1].

You asked “What intellectual tasks can humans do that language models can't?” and now that I'm thinking about it again, I think the more apt question would be the reverse:

“What intellectual tasks can a LLM do autonomously without any human supervision (direct or indirect[2]) if there's money at stake?”

You'll see that the list is going to be very shallow if not empty.

> A network of LLMs have better general intelligence.

Your argument was about tool calling for long term memory, this isn't “a network of LLM” but an LLM another tool chosen by a human to deal with LLM's limitations one one particular problem (and of you need long term memory for another problem you're very likely to need to rework both your prompt and your choice of tools to address it: it's not the LLM that solves it but your own intelligence).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755623 [2] indirect supervision would be the human designing an automatic verification system to check LLMs output before using it. Any kind of verification that is planned in advance by the human and not improvised by the LLM when facing the problem counts as indirect supervision, even if it relies on another LLM.