MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troist | 2025-05-09 07:48:49+00:00
Amazon's policy on not taking returns for food items can be very frustrating, especially combined with leaving packages on the doorstep without informing you.

I've had food items in broken glass jars left on my doorstep, and Amazon refuse to do anything about it. They also follow that pattern of making it hard to reach an actual customer service person, instead trying to send you in an endless loop of FAQ pages.

Needless to say, I no longer use Amazon for food items.
Show HN: We built a tool that finds root cause of bugs from logs and issues
by priyankc | 2025-05-09 07:49:17+00:00
Hey HN!

We were inspired by Claude Code and built a tool that can do root cause analysis for bugs. In our experience, writing code is the tip of an iceberg for resolving bugs. It involves effort around sifting through logs, building mental model, reproducing bug and actually understanding the root cause.

We started dogfooding our own tool on opensource GitHub repos. We worked on a few issues and were able to quickly get to the root cause.

Here are a few root cause analyses we did in the last 24hours:

- Issue in Parabol Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol/issues/11258#issuecomm...

- Issue in Puppet Bolt Repo: https://github.com/puppetlabs/bolt/issues/3373#issuecomment-...

- Issue in InfluxDB Repo: https://gist.github.com/priyankc/0e90fce913116b9014142f96a87...

We would love to hear your feedback. Critical feedback would be appreciated.

Installation instructions and more info can be found at: https://hyperdrive.engineering/

Happy building!
by smikhanov | 2025-05-09 07:49:34+00:00
Absolutely, that’s without any doubt.

There’s a difference though. The “cool” Terminator Skynet pursues its own goals, and wasn’t programmed by humans to kill. The “boring” insurance-rejecting Skynet is explicitly programmed to reject insurance claims by other humans, unfortunately.

So still, no need to worry about our AI overlords, worry about people running the AI systems.
by graemep | 2025-05-09 07:50:42+00:00
Bibles were the first book to sell in large numbers when the printing press was invented.

Before that the church did expect at least priests and monks and nuns to be able to read the Bible, and there were a lot of them.

Most is strictly true, but you are talking about a millennium between the clear primacy of Rome and the invention of the printing press, and half a millennium since so its not hugely more.

Finally, historically most people could not own books and had no to limited literacy. Literacy is not necessary to be a good anything, but its definitely better to be literate and have access to things to read.
by eqvinox | 2025-05-09 07:50:47+00:00
I don't get it. Training giant LLMs can easily be task managed to line up with solar and wind availability. Shut off half the DC at night, go full power when it's sunny and windy. If they integrate the powerplant, they can easily manage this.

Is avoiding HW underutilization really worth going nuclear? The most expensive energy source of all?
by moring | 2025-05-09 07:51:55+00:00
Some rambling...

I always wonder if something like these undocumented opcodes could be used as a concept in more modern processors. Backend, transistors were a precious resource, and the result was those opcodes. Nowadays, instruction encoding space is more precious because of pressure on the instruction cache. Decoding performance might also be relevant.

The result of these thoughts is something I called "PISC", programmable instruction set computer, which basically means an unchanged back-end (something like RISC + vector) but a programmable decoder in front of it. So then different pieces of code could use different encodings, optimized for each case.

...which you get in RISC with subroutines + instruction cache, if you regard the CALL instructions as "encoded custom instructions", but not quite because CALLs waste a lot of bits, and you need additional instructions to pass arguments.

For pure RISC, all of this would at best take some pressure of the instruction cache, so probably not worth it. Might be more interestring for VLIW backends.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-09 07:51:57+00:00
> As to your assertion that bishop and priest are different, you are wrong even from the Catholic framework (and completely wrong from a Protestant framework). Here's a quote from Thomas Aquinas about 1 Tim 3:1

Aquinas is writing a narrative more than 1,000 years after the fact rationalizing how it is possible for the biblical narrative to be consistent with the order observed later. He does a very good job of that. It is not, in the slightest, evidence that the three-orders system and the particular roles assigned to each—which has evolved considerably over time since it is first clearly attested within the Catholic Church, without even considering what Protestants and newer movements claiming the title "Christian" have done with it —actually existed at the time of the NT and was being referenced therein.
by whstl | 2025-05-09 07:52:26+00:00
I have a Brazilian (the country) email story.

This company had a rule where the mail was first name + last name initial. So, timc@company.com if you're Tim Cook. Naturally they ended up hiring a customer success person called "Ana Lopes".

She of course noticed on the first day and complained, but IT dragged their feet until some high-profile customer saw "reply to ANAL" in the automated ZenDesk email and send an angry email to the CEO.
by ueueejdnsk | 2025-05-09 07:53:18+00:00
Check out the scientific field of epigenetics

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

My views on monetary versus fiscal policy, public versus private ownership, markets versus planning, methods of government and economic production are not relevant.

If you think “right wing” creates a better environment or “left wing” is independent of whether the environment dominates DNA/Darwinian ideas about being born superior
by CuriouslyC | 2025-05-09 07:55:50+00:00
Aider's leaderboard is a baseline "best practice" for model/edit format/mode selection. Beyond that, it's basically whatever you think are best practices in engineering and code style, which you should capture in documents that can serve double duty both for AI and for human contributors. Given that a lot of this stuff is highly contentious it's really up to you as to pick and choose what you prefer.
by donatj | 2025-05-09 07:56:14+00:00
Hey! I too just filed my first Chromium bug[1]! They changed a behavior that broke opening new windows with tabs, and thus broke my advanced tab search extension Tabasco[2].

I was frankly impressed by the experience. They had me create a minimal extension illustrating the issue and were very quickly able automate a bisection that found its root, a security fix somewhat bluntly resolved. They've supposedly fixed the issue in an upcoming release I await with bated breath.

- [1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405283740

- [2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabasco-advanced-ta...
by kenanfyi | 2025-05-09 07:56:23+00:00
Good that you say that. I believe the model is more important here than the implementation detail, framework or language of choice.

Plus, I think Astro wins over Next in terms of documentation and the general developer experience.

Next has the bad vibes, unfortunately because of all Vercel thing. At least for me. I believe if Next would position itself somewhere like Astro, people would be more open to learn and dig it. I don‘t exactly know if it‘s 100% true, but I feel like if I invest my time in Next, I will be locked-in by the Vercel world of things. And no one likes that.
by graemep | 2025-05-09 07:56:28+00:00
> Also, most Catholics are born in catholic families so it's not like they chose catholicism over something else.

I do not know whether that is true any more, at least in all countries. At one Catholic parish I knew in Britain about half the congregation were adult converts.

Then there are a lot of people who leave and return. I might count as that - Catholic family, was agnostic (and married in registry office, which turned out to be useful), and now am definitely a Christian but feel denomination does not matter and do not really accept much of the Catholic theology (and some of its practical consequences, such as no women priests really bother me). OTOH I have not, and would not, formally leave the church either.
by tengwar2 | 2025-05-09 07:57:41+00:00
<Four Yorkshiremen accent>

You were lucky! We had to design and build the computer out of Z80-family components first before we could play around in binary.

There was actually a reason - this was back in '83/84 in a physics lab, and the idea was to be able to build your own logging / control device. PCs existed, but were terribly expensive.
by TechRecruiting | 2025-05-09 07:58:43+00:00
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by IcePic | 2025-05-09 07:58:56+00:00
I think OpenBSD (and other OSes) that do not allow v4 on v6 sockets might be on to something. It was felt convenient for application programmers to only have to listen to one socket for two protocols, but then code after needs to make very sure they know how to handle both families in the correct way for logging and so on, and now much later on it confuses someone that has to dig very deep into why the v4-box talks v4 without using v4.

Could be an indication that in the long run, just forcing applications that need both protocols to have separation so you are sure of what they are doing was the correct choice.
by ralgozino | 2025-05-09 07:59:07+00:00
that is not completely correct, see:

The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1818) that began with the May Revolution in 1810. It originally comprised rebellious territories of the former Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata dependencies and had Buenos Aires as its capital.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%A...
by hayst4ck | 2025-05-09 07:59:36+00:00
> Peace implies disengagement by maintaining long-standing borders.

Before I write a novel of a response, can you rigorously define "long-standing borders", as well as the implied words of "nation", "country", and "state"? How far back in history is "long standing" valid for? Some of these things are matters of history, how do you deal with historians disagreeing on the ground truth? What happens when someone strongly asserts something that is factually untrue?

All wars are defensive in that the combatants are told they are defending, not attacking. Russians in Ukraine don't think they are attacking, they think they are defending Russia from NATO or de-nazifying Ukraine, or at least that is their national narrative.

Mostly I think your post proved my overall point, which is that peace is not a meaningful word because its meaning is relative to its speakers beliefs rather than in reference to a universalize-able moral framework describing about what justice is.
by moring | 2025-05-09 07:59:42+00:00
> The goal of closing duplicates promptly is to prevent them from being answered and enable that redirect. As a result, people who search for the question and find a duplicate, actually find the target instead.

Why would you want to prevent answers to a question, just because another unrelated question exists? Remember that the whole thread is not about actual duplicates, but about unrelated questions falsely marked as duplicates.

> ... because objectively the answers on the target answer their question ... > ... because of a failure to do the expected investigative work first ...

Almost everybody describing their experience with duplicates in this comment section tells the story of questions for which other questions have been found, linked from the supposedly-duplicate question, and described why the answers to that other question do NOT answer their own question.

The expected investigative work HAS been done; they explained why the other question is NOT a duplicate. The key point is that all of this has been ignored by the person closing the question.
Show HN: I Am Music Font – Free Online Double-Layer and Freaky Text Generator
by dlouxgit | 2025-05-09 08:00:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I'd like to show you *iammusicfont.art*, a free online tool I built for generating unique text effects.

I created this because I wanted a simple way to generate the distinctive double-layer text style often seen in music art (like Playboi Carti's 'Music' album) and also have a quick way to get various "freaky" or decorative text styles.

The site currently offers two main generators:

1. *I Am Music Font Generator:* This lets you create the iconic double-layer effect with a bold background and an elongated foreground text. You can customize the text, adjust size and spacing, and even drag the foreground layer independently. It's great for creating visuals for music, social media, or other design projects. You can download the result as a high-quality PNG, with or without a transparent background.

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The tool is completely free, easy to use, and outputs clean PNG images.

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by supermatt | 2025-05-09 08:01:52+00:00
That wouldn't be a problem in the EU. Children are not able to consent to a contract.

That amazon assume that it is the adult authorising the transaction is a decision made by amazon to facilitate purchase. i.e. it is Amazons problem, not the parents.

I'd guess the number of contested transactions are sufficiently low that amazon generally doesn't care to enforce additional authentication to reduce the likelihood of unauthorised purchases.
by some1else | 2025-05-09 08:01:53+00:00
I remember some "How it's made" videos where conveyor belts and automation were put to very good use in baking cookies, and such. I take it that this implementation is more artisanal?

edit: The gummies are special because they can potentially glow and deform in a unique way. Interactivity is possibly overstated in this case.
by jarym | 2025-05-09 08:01:56+00:00
I cancelled my Claude subscription. I was happily using it for months - asking it the odd question or sometimes having longer discussions to talk through an idea.

Then one day I got nagged to upgrade or wait a few hours. I was pretty annoyed, I didn’t regard my usage as high and felt like a squeeze.

I cancelled my pro plan and now happily using Gemini which costs nothing. These AI companies are still finding their feet commercially!
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-09 08:02:28+00:00
> I think this would translate to Mexican United States

If Estados Unidos existed in Spanish as a compound, non-proper, noun phrase—that is, if "a united states" was a generic name for a thing—rather than Unidos and Mexicanos both being adjectives that modify Estados, then that would be a plausible translation. But that's (1) not the case, and (2) even if it was the case, that's not how it is used in the actual official name of the country of México.

> you're mixing up the word order.

To be clear, you are asserting that the government of México messed up the word order in its own official English name.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-05-09 08:02:55+00:00
This is what kills me where I live, too. I can’t understand why everyone insists on commuting exactly at the same time.

Before WFH became a thing here, I just moved my office hours one hour earlier. I went from being sardine-packed to ample seating space. Bonus points for the buses and trains running faster, so my commute was not only orders of magnitude more comfortable, it was also much shorter !

Yes, I understand not everyone can do this, but the point is for people to be spread over a wider time range. Many people don’t have children to get to school and whatnot, a sizable chunk of them could probably move their hours a bit earlier or later.
by chrischen | 2025-05-09 08:02:56+00:00
Actually these things usually pretty customer-sided. Obviously if you ask Amazon they will say you got it, but if you side-step them and they didn't get a signature it becomes hard for them to defend. They usually skip signature confirmation and leave it at doorstep because 95% of the time it's what the customer wants and works.

That's why for anything more expensive they will get a signature, and ebay requires signatures on high priced items, because the 5% risk at that price point is no longer acceptable.
by lioeters | 2025-05-09 08:03:17+00:00
Announcement post in March 2025 summarizes the changes from WASM 1.0.

Wasm 2.0 Completed - https://webassembly.org/news/2025-03-20-wasm-2.0/

> ..here is the summary of the additions in version 2.0 of the language:

Vector instructions: With a massive 236 new instructions — more than the total number Wasm had before — it now supports 128-bit wide SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) functionality of contemporary CPUs, like Intel’s SSE or ARM’s SVE. This helps speeding up certain classes of compute-intense applications like audio/video codecs, machine learning, and some cryptography.

Bulk memory instructions: A set of new instructions allows faster copying and initialization of regions of memory or ranges of tables.

Multi-value results: Instructions, blocks, and functions can now return more than one result value, sometimes supporting faster calling conventions and avoiding indirections. In addition, block instructions now also can have inputs, enabling new program transformations.

Reference types: References to functions or pointers to external objects (e.g., JavaScript values) become available as opaque first-class values. Tables are repurposed as a general storage for such reference values, and new instructions allow accessing and mutating tables in Wasm code. In addition, modules now may define multiple tables of different types.

Non-trapping conversions: Additional instructions allow the conversion from float to integer types without the risk of trapping unexpectedly.

Sign extension instructions: A new group of instructions allows directly extending the width of signed integer value. Previously that was only possible when reading from memory.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-09 08:05:05+00:00
Oh that's interesting, because they distilled only with 1 method, not both methods that were used on R1 (the one was reinforcement learning, the other supervised finetuning, I think only the former was used on the distillations). So there might be some room for improvement. I hadn't seen any third party distillations yet but I'll have a look.
by poplwang | 2025-05-09 08:05:16+00:00
Interesting - I've actually had the opposite experience (granted, this was in Canada) Ordered a fancy honey twice, and both times it arrived in a broken glass jar. When I asked for a refund with the reason "item arrived damaged", it instantly went through both times without question. Maybe a regional thing? Or perhaps more lenience for long time customers/Prime members?
by int_19h | 2025-05-09 08:06:14+00:00
> the only cloud backup solution Apple allows you to use

Not quite. You can still have automatic local backups set up for iOS and macOS devices to your own NAS. And that NAS can then do cloud backups of whatever is on it in any way you want. It's certainly more effort than the stock iCloud solution, but it's still an option.
by EduardoBautista | 2025-05-09 08:06:55+00:00
No, that's not what it means. The key is stored on their server, but you still need to provide a password to unlock the key. In the same way that you can password protect an SSH key.

It's also the same way ProtonMail encrypts their email. They have to store the private key for you to be able to use the email on any browser.
by tuetuopay | 2025-05-09 08:08:47+00:00
In networking, it is the norm to measure performance in packets per second, so with small packets. Unless you're performing DPI or encryption, routers only use the headers to take routing decisions, so whether the payload is 10 bytes or 1000 bytes does not matter: the processing cost will be identical. Only the hardware bandwidth will matter for large packets, though this is rarely the issue (I've hit DDR4 limits once using XDP, and fixed by adding another stick of memory);
by chgs | 2025-05-09 08:10:39+00:00
Not the case in the U.K., dal or fibre doesn’t matter, domestically you typically have a standard sfp or other converter from anywhere which presents it as Ethernet which you then run pppoe over.

Tr069 allows the isp to remotely configure their equipment which most people are happy with, but if you want to use your own then that’s fine, and obviously unless you enable it the isp won’t configure your router or any other equipment.

Starlink acts far more than a media converter.