MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-04-19 11:23:34+00:00
The great thing about FromSoft games is that I know I'm not being coddled. The game isn't trying to hold my hand (or against me), it's giving me fair, intense challenges.

If I win, that's a testament to my skill. I earned that win, I learned the boss movesets and improvedy reaction time. There is no Minimap, or compass, or sound effects that tell you when to perform x action.

Even the weakest mob can trash me if I get arrogant or greedy, no matter how high level you are.
by elif | 2025-04-19 11:23:56+00:00
Besides those working in the technology keeping themselves employed, I'm really confused who is supporting hydrogen.

The infrastructure to support it is far more complex than our current petroleum network, and hydrogen is less safe than petroleum, while at the same time, electric is safer and requires just 10% of the infrastructure as petroleum.

It reaaalllly just feels like scientists and fossil fuel grifters still propping up hydrogens dead xorpse
by rainsford | 2025-04-19 11:24:00+00:00
That's obviously unworkable if you consider that even the Supreme Court's interpretation of fundamental rights can change over time. If a future Supreme Court overturns a prior Supreme Court decision in a way that expands a particular right, do we punish all the judges who followed the previous precedent? If we do, then we have a judicial system that encourages individual judges to ignore the Supreme Court, which doesn't seem like a good setup.

But more fundamentally, the system you're proposing doesn't just incentivize judges to err on the side of caution, it incentivizes them to never rule in favor of the government and just punt the decision to the next level. If the cost of ever being overturned on appeal in favor of an individual's rights is losing their job, while there is no corresponding downside of ruling the other way, there's basically no reason to ever risk granting a warrant, for example.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-19 11:26:15+00:00
The most interesting part of this article for me was:

> Have multiple checkouts of your repo

I don’t know why this never occurred to me probably because it feels wrong to have multiple checkouts, but it makes sense so that you can keep each AI instance running at full speed. While LLM‘s are fast, this is one of the annoying parts of just waiting for an instance of Aider or Claude Code to finish something.

Also, I had never heard of git worktrees, that’s pretty interesting as well and seems like a good way to accomplish effectively having multiple checkouts.
Request HN: Product Launch Ideas of my startup
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by 1659447091 | 2025-04-19 11:28:13+00:00
anytime I hear someone use "zed" for Z(ee) the next thing I hear in my head is "Zed's dead, baby"[0] Pulp Fiction and I just can't help but chuckle

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3aAvhUucI
by tm-guimaraes | 2025-04-19 11:29:11+00:00
> beautiful people

I’ve watched both the original british “Ghosts” sitcom and the still running american one. And to be honest this is the american quirk that i found the most odd.

I’ve actually like the fact they have created different characters to make more sense to be stuck in an american manor, but the main ones dont hide the beautifull actors appeal, which is weird.

Also, the american ghosts chatecters seem to have less depht, or at least their deph is rarely shown, ie, deph is there, but ignored or forgotten in most eps.

I miss the “cavern ghost” that while he had very primitive behaviours, he was actually smart, but more than that, he showed the pain, experience and how he grow detatched from partimgs and the lime due to the millenia he has been stuck, his mirror “thor” also has noce things, but doesn’t compare, or at least they dont play to them enough.

The english boy scout is a more mature and melancolic as well, and acts as a father feature to the female lead occasionally, while the american younger seems much more steriotipical.

I really like the american finance bro, it is no way similar to his british politic counterpart, and they do show his nice guy side often, I think the fact that they made them so opposite made me enjoy it more.

I guess that the difference in episode count per season might also justify why in most eps the americans are just steriotypes.

But the “beauty” of the american ghosts is just silly american obsession.
by fy20 | 2025-04-19 11:29:16+00:00
I had a really interesting situation a couple of decades ago when I was studying. I grew up in a rural part of the UK in the South West. The nearest train station was just over the county border, around 20 miles away.

One day I was waiting for the train, and there were two men talking: a vicar and his friend - both in their 50s. Clearly from that area. Even though I'd grown up in an area with a similar accent - less than 20 miles away - I could not understand a word they were saying.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-04-19 11:29:34+00:00
> Wh/kg figures hasn't changed

Maybe I misunderstand you, but taken at face value, this assertion is incorrect.

Battery density (Wh/kg) has more than quadrupled since the 90s. See e.g. https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-...

Price is also dropping fast!

The learning rate for Li-ion batteries right now, is around a 35% price reduction for every doubling in installed capacity.
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-19 11:29:39+00:00
Truthfulness doesn't always align with honesty. The LLM should have said: "oops i saw the EXIF data, please pick another image".

And I don't even think it's a matter of the LLM being malicious. Humans playing games get their reward from fun, and will naturally reset the game if the conditions do not lead to it.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-19 11:30:09+00:00
"State variables" is a section in the original article. It shows a variable in the view, "name", that holds the value separate from the DOM.

setName(value) first checks the local state variable, and if different the value is both written to the state variable and the DOM.

The GP's pattern uses getters and setters to directly read and write to the DOM, skipping the need for a local variable entirely.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-19 11:31:13+00:00
Do you have a plan on what you’re going to move to?

I’ve used (and still use) UnRaid before but switched to Synology for my data a while back due to both the plug-and-play nature of their systems (it’s been rock solid for me) and easily accessible hard drive trays.

I’ve built 3 UnRaid servers and while I like the software, hardware was always an issue for me. I’d love a 12-bay-style Synology hardware device that I could install whatever I wanted on. I’m just not interested in having to halfway deconstruct a tower to get at 1 hard drive. Hotswap bays are all I want to deal with now.
by yesnomaybe | 2025-04-19 11:31:37+00:00
I run a few serverless stacks on AWS Lambda, have been for years and slept well all the time. Serverless is forgiving. Things heal and don't stay dead like it can happen with anything that carries state like a container.

That said, I do prefer the development model of containers. Run them anywhere. That said, has it's own limitations. For example, he claims to be able to run state within container. Doesn't make sense if you want to scale out. Persistence is a problem. You can't run DBs on ECS Fargate for example.

And the worst aspect of running containers is: in bigger orgs the standard will probably be K8s. And that has nothing to do any more with the simplicity of containers as mentioned in the article.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-04-19 11:32:50+00:00
The US broadcast syndication market is really only set up to sell shows that have more than 100 episodes. I think UFO, Space:1999, and the 1955 Robin Hood were among the few shows seen on regular non-PBS stations. The Disney Show would sometimes run UK-filmed material. (Scarecrow, Thomasina) Partly it's because Americans can't understand the words when they hear many UK dialect accents, so they tune out those shows and that tanks the ratings. Even if you give a station a free tv show they lose money if no one watches it. We do better at remaking shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Skins, and Being Human.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-04-19 11:34:35+00:00
I think this "debate" is largely irrelevant: China has decided that locomotion will be (battery) electric. That is the largest scale you can get, so any effects of scale for an alternative will at best be as large as the battery electric one.

And then there are the variety of other disadvantages that come with hydrogen: - significant leakage and high greenhouse factor - heavy support equipment need (both for storage and for usage)

About the only advantage of hydrogen (vs. lithium-ion batteries) is gravimetric energy density (where it's about a factor of 300). But even volumetric energy density differs only be a factor of 5-10. (Both numbers ignore that the storage thing will add significant weight). And those are _already_ not limiting for locomotion needs.

- how sure are we that we are solving a co2 climate crisis with the actions we are taking?

The thing here is yes: Even if we would generate the energy for the locomotion completely with fossil fuel! Large plants are significantly more efficient (10-35% vs up to 60%) and it would be _much_ simpler to, e.g. think about carbon capture if we had tens of thousand CO2 emitters rather than a billion. But we are not doing that!
by namaria | 2025-04-19 11:35:40+00:00
Oy vey not this paper again.

"Our methods study the model indirectly using a more interpretable “replacement model,” which incompletely and imperfectly captures the original."

"(...) we build a replacement model that approximately reproduces the activations of the original model using more interpretable components. Our replacement model is based on a cross-layer transcoder (CLT) architecture (...)"

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

"Remarkably, we can substitute our learned CLT features for the model's MLPs while matching the underlying model's outputs in ~50% of cases."

"Our cross-layer transcoder is trained to mimic the activations of the underlying model at each layer. However, even when it accurately reconstructs the model’s activations, there is no guarantee that it does so via the same mechanisms."

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met...

These two papers were designed to be used as the sort of argument that you're making. You point to a blog post that glazes over it. You have to click through the "Read the paper" to find a ~100 page paper, referencing another ~100 page paper to find any of these caveats. The blog post you linked doesn't even feature the words "replacement (model)" or any discussion of the reliability of this approach.

Yet it is happy to make bold claims such as "we look inside Claude 3.5 Haiku, performing deep studies of simple tasks representative of ten crucial model behaviors" which is simply not true.

Sure, they added to the blog post: "the mechanisms we do see may have some artifacts based on our tools which don't reflect what is going on in the underlying model" but that seems like a lot of indirection when the fact is that all observations commented in the papers and the blog posts are about nothing but such artifacts.
by deltaknight | 2025-04-19 11:36:40+00:00
As it happens, I started to make this back when McLaren weren't doing quite as well as they are now... for exactly the reason you describe. Being able to see pit windows easily for drivers all the way down the field, and observe lap times and relative gaps for drivers makes following the midfield much easier.

Unfortunately I don't handle lapped drivers very well, once they're lapped much of the gap related stuff stops working for them. Thankfully the last year or so the field has been close enough where that's not too much of an issue.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-19 11:37:46+00:00
At first I was going to balk but then I remembered I paid ~$1.5K for a 12-bay Synology (and again for the 12-bag expansion unit).

This is much larger I think (and it bugs me that it’s not an even number of drives, and the offset of the drives is unpleasant) but it’s rackable so that’s a plus.

The only thing I’d want to know is sound (and I’m sure I can find a YouTube video).

I’ve been looking for an excuse to go all-in on a Ubiquiti setup… Thanks for mention this, I wasn’t aware Ubiquiti had a NAS product.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-04-19 11:38:57+00:00
“The Sifraniyah Code” jumped out at me. “Sifr” or “zifr” is zero in Urdu and Arabic.

So the Zero code?

Turns out “Sifraniyah” has exactly two hits on Google, this article and this listing here on HN.

LLM generated.
by radicalbyte | 2025-04-19 11:39:17+00:00
It's crazy isn't it? American sitcoms/comedy doesn't even come close and is almost universally derivative of the British greats, despite having 5-6x the population and far bigger budgets.

I think that is comes from the fact that Americans take themselves too seriously and have a very strong and an even stronger censorship model than the British (thanks to well-funded religious organisations who make fun illegal).
by kotaKat | 2025-04-19 11:39:21+00:00
I'm going to buck the nerds and say I wish Drobo was back. I love my 5N, but had to retire it as it began to develop Type B Sudden Drobo Death Syndrome* and switch out to QNAP.

It was simple, it just worked, and I didn't have to think about it.

* TB SDDS - a multi-type phenomenon of Drobo units suddenly failing. There were three 'types' of SDDS I and a colleague discovered - "Type A" power management IC failures, "Type B" unexplainable lockups and catatonia, and "Type C" failed batteries. Type B units' SOCs have power and clock go in and nothing going out.
by latexr | 2025-04-19 11:39:26+00:00
This was fantastic, and I didn’t even realise at first I was on a news website. Unfortunately, that became very obvious at the bottom:

> MORE FROM REUTERS GRAPHICS

> Inside North Korea’s vast operation to help Russia’s war on Ukraine

> The Most Daunting Hole at Augusta

> How South Korea's largest and deadliest wildfire spread

> The list of proposed US tariffs

After a whole article about quelling anxiety, perhaps don’t end with links to anxiety-inducing themes?
by schrectacular | 2025-04-19 11:40:11+00:00
Unfortunately it's also the only advice that works, in a trite and tautological way. You either find the willpower (in the addiction research it seems that some sort of "religious awakening" or "higher purpose" seems to be key) or you struggle with your addiction to the end.

The comment elsewhere about HAVING to eat was eye opening to me. For some reason I never made that connection - the cocaine addict doesn't have to do just a tiny line a few times a day. They can kick it permanently. A food addict has to face their temptations every meal...
by heikkilevanto | 2025-04-19 11:40:32+00:00
Running it now. On my phone (FairPhone 4) it took about 20 seconds for a round. On my desktop (Debian Liunux, KDE, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz), Firefox runs a round in about 12 seconds, and Chrome in 14.

I tried running in on 4 tabs on Firefox, and it did slow down a bit (maybe 16 seconds). All 4 tabs reported the same count, and it seemed not to increment for all the tabs. Also the initializing step was very fast on the subsequent tabs, as if it was reusing some data. Each tab used 100% of CPU and was doing different calculations. Same for Chrome.

Maybe it is not designed to be run in parallel on the same browser? Now I just run it on two separate browsers, one tab each. I probably stop later today when I need the computer for something else.

(Edit: Got a bit over 100B in 3.5 hours, stopping now. Machine running a tad warm, 25% CPU use, feels normal to use, but I think the fans are working a bit harder than normal)
by _heimdall | 2025-04-19 11:41:16+00:00
This was my first thought as well. I like the convention the OP is proposing here, with this one tweak making the DOM the single source of truth rather than local state inside views or components.

Hell, even in react I try to follow a similar pattern as much as possible. I'll avoid hooks and local state as much as possible, using react like the early days where I pass in props, listen to events, and render DOM.
by namaria | 2025-04-19 11:41:49+00:00
Beware of Gell-Mann amnesia, validation bias and plain nonsense written into summaries LLMs do.

I have fed ChatGPT a pdf file with activity codes from a local tax authority and asked how I could classify some things I was interested in doing. It invented codes that didn't exist.

I would be very very careful about asking any LLM to organize data for me and trusting the output.

As for "life advice" type of thing, they are very sycophantic. I wouldn't go to a friend who always agrees with me enthusiastically for life advice. That sort of yes man behavior is quite toxic.
Show HN: A VS Code extension to visualise Rust logs in the context of your code
by arthurgousset | 2025-04-19 11:43:18+00:00
We made a VS Code extension [1] that lets you visualise logs and traces in the context of your code. It basically lets you recreate a debugger-like experience (with a call stack) from logs alone.

This saves you from browsing logs and trying to make sense of them outside the context of your code base.

We got this idea from endlessly browsing traces emitted by the tracing crate [3] in the Google Cloud Logging UI. We really wanted to see the logs in the context of the code that emitted them, rather than switching back-and-forth between logs and source code to make sense of what happened.

It's a prototype [2], but if you're interested, we’d love some feedback.

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References:

[1]: VS Code: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hyperdrive-eng.traceback

[2]: Github: github.com/hyperdrive-eng/traceback

[3]: Crate: docs.rs/tracing/latest/tracing
by pydry | 2025-04-19 11:44:12+00:00
They're an awful substitute for code. About the best use for them is to give people an overview of the architecture of an existing system.

Even them theyre not great coz they tend to go out of date quite quickly and theyre quite expensive to build.

As a means of software design theyre BDUF crack - theyre an incitement to bad decisions in advance of writing software that would always be much better if done retrospectively via refactoring.
by fuzztester | 2025-04-19 11:44:57+00:00
>Also used PFE32 for a while on the Amiga, sad that the source for that never made it out.

I also used PFE32 (on Windows), and for those who may not know, the acronym stood for Programmers File Editor, IIRC :), and the 32-bit version, probably. It was a nice lightweight text editor. One feature it had, that not many other editors might have had at the time, was the ability to open fairly large text files (for that time, at least).
by tdiff | 2025-04-19 11:45:02+00:00
>Developed between 1977 and 1982 on Mera 400 computers by a team led by Andrzej Salwicki, Loglan’82 was ahead of its time

> Programmers using Loglan’82 simply did not have to worry about issues keeping their Java-using colleagues up at night

Sometimes it would've been better if they just asked LLM to write an article.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-04-19 11:45:19+00:00
Yep. Everybody with a brain knows that. The richest man on the planet is a tech con man.

And yet, this post will get flagged and downvoted into oblivion.

How did we get there ?

As for those downvoting - nope, I'm not hating for him or anything like that. It's just that I like to tell my kids that good guys can win. And Elon is not that.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-04-19 11:45:29+00:00
No, I had and have full control of the VPS. But whenever I upgrade it becomes a mess. I am sure I am missing something and I can backup data and then set everything again, reconnect all the wires and pipes but after a few times I just gave up completely. Hell even security updates in LTS break things up. I did try exploring and learn how to maintain it well and what not but eventually I gave up and it was a big reason why I get fatigued even at the thought of self-hosting something.

Thanks for your input on this. Next time I get into it I will definitely look at it and you are right about needing resources as much is my usage need. I just meant to ask what are the bare minimums sort of.
by ben_w | 2025-04-19 11:46:15+00:00
Depends how you define the boundry of the event itself, both in space and in time.

Stellar cores are relatively small, and the infalling matter is essentially in freefall at high g, gets to a significant fraction of c in about 0.1 seconds.

The visible disk of a red supergiant — of the kind that can supernova or surprise us by failing — is on the order of multiple AU radius, so speed of light limits there are in the tens of minutes.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-19 11:46:54+00:00
While you are right, I find much more annoying the displays that can still be found and that are limited to the sRGB color space, or the movies or images recorded using the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces.

These color spaces cannot reproduce a green laser pointer, but what annoys me is that they are far more limited in their ability to reproduce the colors in the red-orange corner. Unlike with very saturated greens, very saturated red, orange or purple colors, which are outside the sRGB or BT.709 color spaces, are frequently encountered in flowers, fruits, gems, clothes etc.

Many good displays have a color gamut close to DCI-P3, with a much more saturated red than in sRGB. If the images or movies are also encoded using a wider color space, e.g. BT.2020, than more natural colors can be reproduced.

For reproducing the color of a laser pointer, the only solution is to use a laser projector, which also uses laser diodes for the primary colors.

For reproducing an even wider color space than possible with 3 lasers, one would have to use 4 or more lasers.

However, because the band-pass filters corresponding to the human photo-receptors are imperfect, any external source of light will excite multiple receptors, so no external display can produce the same sensation as described in the parent article, where they have used intraocular aiming of the laser spot, on individual receptors, simulating thus receptors with perfect color selectivity.

It should be pointed though, that perfect band-pass filters for photo-receptors do not have rectangular non-overlapping graphs of the frequency characteristics, but triangular graphs, where the frequency response becomes null only at the maximums of the adjacent in frequency photo-receptors, so that most colors excite two kinds of photo-receptors and the ratio between their responses allows the computation of the color hue (i.e. equivalent wavelength/frequency) of the received light.

Therefore, even for perfect eyes, unlike human eyes, pointing a laser spot inside the eyes will cause different sensations in comparison with normal vision, but in that case the sensation would not be new, but it would just show a fake color, identical to the color corresponding to a maximum in the frequency response of the photo-receptors, instead of being the actual color of the laser.