MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by StillBored | 2025-10-08 14:57:31+00:00
This is a mixed bag. As someone who worked in the storage industry for ~10 years, there are a lot of poorly defined behaviors that are vendor/model specific and I can see how its easier to just pick a particular model, test it and declare it the blessed version having done similar stuff myself.

Ex, SMART attributes, mode sense/caching behaviors, etc. Which can all be used in conjunction with RAID to determine when a disk should be replaced, or the user warned about possible impending doom, to simple things like how one sets cache WT/WB and flushes the caches (range based flushing is a thing, doesn't always work, etc) for persistence.

OTOH, much of this is just 'product maturity' because it is possible to have a blessed set of SMART/etc attributes that are understood a certain way and test to see if they exist/behave as expected and warn the user with something like "this drive doesn't appear to report corrected read errors in a way that our predictive failure algorithm can use". Or "This drive appears to be a model that doesn't persist data with FUA when the caches are set to write back, putting your data at risk during a power failure, would you still like to enable writeback?"

And these days with the HD vendors obfuscating shingled drives or even mixing/matching the behavior in differing zones its probably even worse.
by firefax | 2025-10-08 14:58:12+00:00
Can someone elaborate on the meaning of "7m model"?

I'm new to AI, and had an LLM spit out an explanation of why some of the "local" models don't work in Ollama on my Air, but... I don't know how accurate the AI is, heh.

It's my understanding most models are more like 1-30b (as in Billion)
by devilbunny | 2025-10-08 14:58:19+00:00
> killed their Videostation product ... rather than offer users the option of paying to license video decoders

YES, yes, a million times yes.

Footgun, own goal, whatever term you like: if your "prosumer" products are essentially teasers to get the people who select the commercial products familiar with your brand, decisions like killing Videostation and banning non-Syno HDDs are not putting your best foot forward.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 14:58:30+00:00
> The crux of it is that they are not anti-democratic.

Die Linke tolerates antidemocratic hate groups within their party and is a financial sponsor of others. All of this is common knowledge, all of this can be looked up easily.

> Die Linke is in many ways _more_ democratic than other groups and parties as they support direct democracy and workplace democracy.

I know quite a lot of parties that were never once watched by a government watchdog, nor do they continue to support extremist groups, nor do those other parties continue to attract extremists at their demonstrations, nor do those other democratic parties have a continued problem of antisemitism within their ranks, nor do they have a dark past and continue to employ people at high ranks that were leaders in that past.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-08 14:58:30+00:00
Then what would be your explanation for why the issues seem to be largely contemporary in nature, and in particular with 1971 being such a critical inflection point? That 1971 site is alluding to the end the Bretton Woods economic system. Prior to that date, 'money printing' by the government had extreme external constraints. After 1971, we became a completely free floating fiat economy.

This was a radical economic shift. And at first it yielded massive returns as one could expect with the ability to suddenly have infinite money in a world where, to date, money had been very "real." But over time, it turns out that pumping endless 'funny money' into an economy causes lots of bad things to happen, even when we can export much of the immediately apparent inflation.

Essentially the modern economic system we have only truly began in 1971. And it's separate from capitalism itself. The powers that be wanted the power to print unlimited money. And so they claimed that power. Prior to that year we lived in an entirely different world. For instance one interesting inflation index is a can of Campbell's tomato soup. From its introduction in 1897 to 1973 it cost about $0.10. Today it costs $1.24.
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-08 14:58:42+00:00
Let's remove "anti green" and "anti immigration" (but not pure xenophobia) out of group 1, since you seem to protest those two as the most ambiguous (I do agree that those areas may be too blurry).

I also think you misinterpreted "authoritarianism for their group", or I expressed it poorly. I don't mean "support of authoritarian governments", but rather "give more power to their group over others, or favor keeping such a status quo", in the context of race, sexuality, gender, culture, etc.

Yes, group 2 may be protest voters, and their rationale is that the best protest against some leftist policies and monologue is to vote the right - not blank, not abstention, and not some void middle-ground. Of course!

But these people are not complete idiots that forgot what the AfD obviously stands for. Thus, I cannot reasonably believe that they ALL fall under NONE of the categories of 1.

My most generous concession would be 20%, but realistically I would say there is maybe at most 5% that is purely protest and not at least one of: racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist.

Simply put: If someone claims they are not racist, and not homophobic, and not misogynist, yet they still vote for AfD, then they are more likely to be some of that, or are okay with the current status of discriminations, and not some naive idiot.

What you could say to change my mind, is how someone votes/supports AfD purely based on e.g. strengthened immigration policies for purely economical reasons, or "do not like greens", or "just wants nuclear". I don't understand how someone could be so oblivious to the other standpoints, but maybe this is just my personal bias?
by NoGravitas | 2025-10-08 14:58:48+00:00
Bluesky actually has a central contradiction in that:

1. It was founded by the free speech crowd. 2. It is funded by VCs and required to eventually make a profit, which implies one set of constraints on free speech. 3. Its main initial userbase was people who expected a completely different set of constraints on free speech.

I don't think this is a contradiction that can be resolved by Bluesky. Blacksky might manage it, but I think they will turn up new contradictions, and the high cost of running an alternative ATProto stack is a big impediment to resolving those.
by jll29 | 2025-10-08 14:58:48+00:00
True, nuclear is clean, but only if the final storage question is ignored. (I would have used nuclear reactors for longer, at least so that those that were already built could work until they reach their planned end of life. But until the storage question isn't solved properly, one perhaps should not advocate for new nuclear reactors.)

The problem is nobody wants nuclear waste near their front door, even limited politicians were quick to realize that.

And yes, Germany's energy mix is a shame.
by kodomonocch1 | 2025-10-08 14:59:28+00:00
“Why not just Zstd?” Short: Zstd-only can be smaller, but it isn’t searchable; you still pay I/O + CPU to decompress and parse JSON. SEE trades a bit of size for millisecond lookups and ~99% skipping, which often wins on TCO at scale.

“Will it hold on real data?” Short: Best on repetitive JSON/NDJSON (logs, events, telemetry). We provide a 10-minute demo so anyone can reproduce KPIs and stress it with their own patterns.

“Why not keep a separate index?” Short: Separate indexes add I/O/space and consistency overhead. SEE keeps searchability in the storage format, reducing random I/O and parse costs.

“Are the numbers cherry-picked?” Short: We publish p50/p95/p99, skip (present/absent), and bloom density. The demo script prints them all, along with raw and combined sizes.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-08 14:59:47+00:00
The mistake central banks made in 2007-2009* was keeping monetary policy far too tight for far too long, for no real discernable reason.

Offering commentary on which particular sectors they feel are a 'bubble' is outside their purview and not particularly productive IMO, the state is not very good at picking winners.

*edited to 2007
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-10-08 14:59:47+00:00
To be frank, the Arduino ide was a fork of Processing's and the compiler suite was GCC. They 'simply' glued the pre-existing pieces together. I'm not saying that it's trivial to do that but it's also not exactly a herculean task. Even the bootloader was a fork of Hernando Barragán's pre-existing Wiring project.
by danaris | 2025-10-08 14:59:52+00:00
If they unilaterally amend the contract to go from 6 months' notice to 12 months' notice, then presumably you'd have to give your 12 month termination notice then and there...

...and hope they don't unilaterally amend the contract in the interim to allow them to retroactively extend the termination period.

AFAIK, "unilateral amendment" should be considered at least very suspect by most courts?
by fluoridation | 2025-10-08 15:00:34+00:00
>Do you consider freedom (speech, movement, self-determination and so on) equal to oppression, restriction and tyranny?

GP is saying that the phrase "moral high ground" presupposes an objective definition of "up" in morality. You can't cite a particular person's subjective moral "up" to disagree with them. Whether any given person values freedom or oppression more highly doesn't say anything about which one is objectively more moral, if any.

Besides that, do you think it unthinkable that a person would approve of some amount of oppression and restriction being placed on them in favor of achieving some goal?
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-08 15:00:55+00:00
I don't know about the violent overthrow stuff, but you're absolutely right about the simple consolidation of Constitutional violations with respect to travel into FBI and ICE. But that's how politics work, if you wave around a shiny bauble above your head in your right hand, most people are wayyy too slow to remember to look at what you're doing under the table with your left hand. I think that's the dynamic that the original comment is evidence of.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-08 15:01:17+00:00
I mostly agree. Direct link to the paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9202

I'm not an anthropologist and not even close, so a lot of uninformed opinions:

It has a few nice photos of the skull. It looks quite complete. 90%? And the reconstruction look accurate for my untrained eye, because there are few parts to guess, specially if you assume the skull is (almost) symmetrical.

I'm not sure if it's possible to cheat and give it an additional 1% or 2% of brain volume, but I guess it's not possible to give it a 10% more brain volume. Anyway, the volume is quite small compared to modern humans, that is not surprising because it's quite old.

IIUC figure 4 shows 3 big branches: Neanderthal (Europe???), Longi (Asia???) and Sapiens (Africa???). (Add a fee "???" here if necessary.) And the new fossil is in the "Longi" branch.

So as you say it may be an older than expected side chain, or something like that.

[Happy to get any corrections or more details.]
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-08 15:01:17+00:00
I had one of their entry-level consumer products years ago, and it was okay, but the photo management app was basically unusable on the anemic CPU it came with— it would spend multiple days grinding away trying to generate thumbnails for a few gigs of digital photos.

After that coloured my feelings a bit, I swung too far the other way and tried to roll my own with regular Ubuntu, which quickly became a maintenance and observability nightmare.

I've settled for now on Unraid for my current setup, and I'm pretty happy with that, though some of the technical choices are a little baffling; I think my ideal NAS platform would be something with the ergonomics and features of Unraid but built on a more immutability-first platform like NixOS, CoreOS, Talos, etc.
by notanastronaut | 2025-10-08 15:01:49+00:00
"News reports, presumably based on DHS statements, described Quiet Skies as a 'Biden-era' program even though its largest expansion came in 2018 during the first Trump administration."

More like we're lucky that in blind fury they lashed out and actually crumbled something that was terrible to begin with. A broken clock and all that.
by belorn | 2025-10-08 15:01:53+00:00
"clear and present danger" is a concept used by the legal system to define when speech is or isn't legal, and the bar used is generally fairly high. Still, we usually deploy a jury or a team of judges to determine this in order to really be sure to get it right. It is not something that is easily defined in an objective sense.

"clear, specific and concrete danger" is something that may be a better set of criteria. If one can not specify the danger, or if it is not concrete, then its arguable not very clear or present.
by f4uCL9dNSnQm | 2025-10-08 15:01:56+00:00
I wonder what will they try next. I guess they are really jealous of cloud service providers - that get recurring income - instead of just one time hardware purchase.

"You have connected additional HDD. Please select which bay you want to use or try our 'Synology Super Subscription' to use both drives at the same time".
by jofer | 2025-10-08 15:02:30+00:00
I'm trying to count the rounds of major layoffs in my career (e.g. 10% or more of the company let go at once). I _think_ it's 5, but it might be a bit more. I've been lucky each time, but that also means I wasn't one of the ones taking risks. Layoffs cut from both sides of the performance curve and leave the middle, in my experience.

I wish I'd done this more.

In some cases there was no way to. For example, we once woke up to find that the European half of our team had been laid off as part of huge cuts that weren't announced and even our manager had no idea were coming. There's no good way to do layoffs, but I think that "sudden shock" approach is worst of all, personally. You don't get to say goodbye in any way and people don't get to plan for contingencies at all. (The other extreme of knowing it's coming for a year and applying for your own job and then having 2 months to sit around after you didn't get it also sucks, and I've done that as well. You can at least make plans in that case, though.)

On the other hand, in a _lot_ of other cases, you do have a chance to say goodbye. Take it. This is really excellent advice. It's worth saying something, at very least to the people you really did enjoy working with.

There's a decent chance you work with some of those folks in the future, and even if you don't, it really does mean something to be a kind human.
by monero-xmr | 2025-10-08 15:02:32+00:00
There is only 1 solution to the global debt crisis and thats inflating the currency. They did it after WW2 and they will have to do it now. There is no other option. They can do it sneaky through fake measures of inflation, keeping a lid on cost of living adjustments, but ultimately they soak bond holders and standard of living.

You see it everywhere in things they can’t inflate. The price of houses and gold most obviously, but you see it in commodities that can’t expand production quickly as well. The solution is to buy assets of course.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-08 15:02:45+00:00
Ah yes the un-accountability machine at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine

I do like this take. I'm a cynic at the core but I've been trying to see the slightly less cynical side of things lately.

> they'll make a bunch of reports and excel sheets

Reminds me of a dilbert comic where he says the excel sheet is full of errors and incorrect data but it doesn't matter because no one will look at it again unless it reinforces a decision mgmt has already made.
Show HN: SemanticTest – Test AI agents with semantic validation (open source)
by alessandro-a | 2025-10-08 15:02:57+00:00
Hey everyone!

I've been building AI agents lately and kept running into the same problem: how do you test AI Agents?

I find that manually prompting the Agent for each release is tedious and not scalable. Also, existing solutions for testing agents are often complex to integrate.

To help with this I built a simple open-source testing framework that uses AI to validate AI: you define expected behavior and let an LLM judge if the output is semantically correct.

The LLMJudge returns a score (0-1) and reasoning for why it passed/failed.

You can try it live here (no signups): https://semantictest.dev

The playground runs real LLMJudge validation so you can see how the semantic testing works.

The code is completely open source and you can find extensive documentation here: https://docs.semantictest.dev

Would love feedback from you guys!

Thank you!
by derbOac | 2025-10-08 15:03:29+00:00
The "real reason" people "freaked out" about Trump dismantling agencies is that he was and has been ignoring the law by fiat and not executing the law as is his constitutionally defined role. It would be one thing to veto a refunding of the DoEd, to approve a dismantling of the DoEd; it's another to unilaterally dismantle institutions that have been enacted into law by Congress. The DoEd is no more unconstitutional than the DoD or any other cabinet-level institution.

I think it's fair to have a hard discussion about the effectiveness of or need for the DoEd, but the way to do that is in Congress, not by fiat by the president. The way the Trump administration has approached it IMHO is grossly unconstitutional and a violation of the separation of powers. The only semi-reasonable rationale I can think of is that Congress is implicitly approving of or voting on the president's actions by not impeaching him, but that seems like an unreasonably high bar, equates lack of action with active approval, and it also infringes on the power of the Congress that enacted the law.

As someone else here on HN noted recently: what is the point of anything pertaining to congressional vote procedures, veto authority, overrides, and so forth if the president ignores, and is allowed to ignore, the laws that are passed anyway?
by slightwinder | 2025-10-08 15:04:05+00:00
> Probably true. Do you have examples of what you're thinking of?

Bookmarks, contacts, notes for example, they are usually not time-based but by context, category or whichever organization their usage demands at the moment. They can be time-based in a journal, but usually I do not remember websites or people by the time I encountered them, so I would not search them this way.

The other question is how personal is personal in this project? Are my IMDB-ratings valid data for this? My Ebook-collection? My Steam-account? Those are usually things I would not manage in a timeline or a map, but with different interfaces and features.
Show HN: PredictionHunt – Compare probabilities across prediction markets
by carushow | 2025-10-08 15:04:27+00:00
Hey HN - my friend and I built Prediction Hunt, a site that aggregates data from prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket, and PredictIt into one simple dashboard.

It updates every few minutes, shows probabilities for each event, and even highlights arbitrage opportunities when markets disagree. I made it after getting tired of flipping between tabs just to see how each market was pricing the same question. Would love feedback on the product, data accuracy, and any ideas for what you'd want to see next.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-08 15:04:45+00:00
> resulting relationships between the allied countries and Germany and Japan could not have been more positive

I think there may have been a "lesser evil" aspect to that. The Allies had good relationships with West Germany almost immediately after the war because they were saving the defeated Germans from the USSR. Japan reconciled with the USSR but there are still tensions between Japan, Korea, and China over the war.
by cpfohl | 2025-10-08 15:04:55+00:00
Yeah, there was definitely a communication gaffe on the part of the person trying to address OP's behavior. Some people (OP included it appears) need very direct communication that would be rude if directed at _other_ people.

Unfortunately the indirection ("be more empathetic") is the safe/polite/un-hurtful bet for a huge percentage of the population. The majority of people hear that and pick up on the implied request to be more sensitive.
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 15:05:07+00:00
The truth is not a defense against libel laws in all countries. Depending on where this is the poster could be out a lot of money just for naming names. As such not naming names is the safe answer.

Even in the US where the truth is a defense, you still can be out a lot of lawyer fees because you can be sued for things you say and it can cost a lot of hours in court.
by Delphiza | 2025-10-08 15:05:08+00:00
It is the financial risk that is obvious. The big players are struggling to show meaningful revenue from the investment. Because the investment is so high, the revenue numbers need to be equally high, and growing fast. The 'correction' is when (ok, if) the markets realise that the returns aren't there. The worldwide risk is that AI-led growth has been a large chunk of the US stock market growth. If it 'corrects' US growth disappears overnight and takes everyone down with it. It is not an issue about the usefulness of AI, but the returns on investment and the market shocks caused by such large sums of money sloshing around one market.
by crote | 2025-10-08 15:05:17+00:00
You'd be surprised. A single spinning rust drive can hit 200MBps for sequential access, so that's plenty to saturate its 1Gbps NIC.

However, in my experience with a Pi 4, the issue is encryption. The CPU simply isn't fast enough for 1Gbps of AES! Want to use HTTPS or SSH? You're capped at ~50Mbps by default, and can get it up to a few hundred Mbps by forcing the use of chacha20-poly1305. Want to add full-disk encryption to that? Forget it.

The Pi 5 is supposed to have hardware AES acceleration so it should be better, but I'm still finding forum posts of people seeing absolutely horrible performance. Probably fine to store the occasional holiday photo, but falls apart when you intend to regularly copy tens of gigabytes to/from it at once.
by afavour | 2025-10-08 15:05:26+00:00
This is a total aside but you've reminded me: I couple of years ago I switched from cable TV to just using broadcast and bought a new HD Homerun tuner capable of receiving 4K OTA broadcasts.

Imagine my shock that these new broadcasts are DRMed. HDHomerun can't decode them. I don't blame them, I'm absolutely incensed that OTA broadcasts have been allowed to start using DRM.
by fasteo | 2025-10-08 15:05:43+00:00
From the actual report[1]

>>> Despite persistent material uncertainty around the global macroeconomic outlook, risky asset valuations have increased and credit spreads have compressed. Measures of risk premia across many risky asset classes have tightened further since the last FPC meeting in June 2025. On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic.

Actually, the quoted 'sudden correction' is not referring specifically to AI, but the market in general

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-policy-committee-r...