Hacker News: carlio

New comment by carlio in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

carlio — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:51:24 +0000

I still cling on to the quaint idea that "upvote" means "adds meaningfully and coherently to the discussion", while "downvote" means the opposite. So not "I agree with this" or "that made me chuckle" but rather "this enhances the conversation" - and especially if it's a well written argument I disagree with because that might make me learn or rethink my position. Humour in a well argued point is very welcome, of course.

Wish and reality aren't in alignment here but some places like HN or /r/AskHistorians are my refuges.

New comment by carlio in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

carlio — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:19:38 +0000

There's always been a general pushback on HN against turning threads into a series of quippy oneliners. It tends toward having a serious discussion about a topic, rather than farming low-effort humour for upvotes. I consider this a good thing, as there are plenty of other places where that is rewarded.

New comment by carlio in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

carlio — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:05:31 +0000

An AMD AI max+ 395 - I use the one from frame.work (https://frame.work/de/en/desktop) with 128GB unified RAM and it can run a 120b model (gpt-oss:120b) just fine.

See Wendel's review here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-xgMQ-7lW0

There are other mini-pc manufacturers, the mainboard is the important part.

New comment by carlio in "Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready"

carlio — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:48:06 +0000

minio is an S3-compatable object store, the linked s3mini is just a client for s3-compatable stores.

New comment by carlio in "X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content"

carlio — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:51:16 +0000

It'd look like this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright

New comment by carlio in "Don't just check errors, handle them gracefully (2016)"

carlio — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:19:05 +0000

"Something went wrong. Please try again".

New comment by carlio in "Germany is unlocking billions to supercharge its military at a seismic moment"

carlio — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:11:53 +0000

Do you suggest not doing it then?

New comment by carlio in "AI is stifling new tech adoption?"

carlio — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:39:39 +0000

While you might be able to continuously update the model, are you able to continuously update the moderation of it? As the article says, it takes time to tune it and filter it; if you allow any content in without some filtering of outputs you might end up with another Tay. You'd have to think the liability would slow down the ability to simply update on the fly.

Also, if the proportion of training data available is larger for more established frameworks, then the ability of the model to answer usefully are necessarily dictated by the volume of content which is biased towards older frameworks.

It might be possible with live updating to get something about NewLibX but it probably would be a less useful answer compared to asking about 10YearOldLibY

New comment by carlio in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

carlio — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:22:07 +0000

That reminds me of the story of the 500 mile email (https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html)

New comment by carlio in "Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters"

carlio — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:34:36 +0000

It takes too long to iterate on a character design.

For more explanation: I've been playing around with stable diffusion on my laptop recently; I have a gtx 4070 with 8GB dedicated VRAM so it's not nothing.

The main problem I have is that it takes a lot of iteration on a prompt to get what I want, at lower resolution and sampling steps, before I know that I'll get roughly what I want.

I tried making a character in Eggnog, and before I could be sure what I was getting, it told me it'd take 15-20 minutes to be ready. I worry that this will just make me wait a long time for a character that isn't what I want, and starting again too many times will put me off.

The iteration and feedback loop needs to be tighter in my opinion, or people will get unsatisfactory results and be unwilling to go back and fine tune.

New comment by carlio in "Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?"

carlio — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:28:13 +0000

I think you're talking about spinning up a temporary environment running the code and connecting via a local IDE to inspect it, whereas OP is talking about hosting the IDE remotely.

New comment by carlio in "Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative"

carlio — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 01:42:56 +0000

I use InfluxDB for this, it comes with a frontend UI and you can configure Telefraf as a statsd listener, so the same metric ingestion as datadog pretty much. There are docker containers for these, which I have added to my docker-compose for local dev.

I think it does log ingestion too, I haven't ever used that, I mostly use it just for the metrics and graphing.

New comment by carlio in "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka"

carlio — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:56:09 +0000

I work as a contractor so I move between places. I have found a few companies trying to introduce kafka, and every time it has been a solution in search of a problem.

I don't doubt that it has a good use case but I have so far only encountered the zealots who crowbar it into any situation and that has left a residual bad taste in my mouth. So I fall into the "hate it" side.

New comment by carlio in "Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?"

carlio — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:39:03 +0000

Final Fantasy 7. It was the first story-driven game I played as a teenager and it changed how I thought about games.

New comment by carlio in "PrivateGPT"

carlio — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:03:38 +0000

You can by setting an environment variable - https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT/blob/main/ingest.py#...

New comment by carlio in "Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces"

carlio — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:27:09 +0000

The AI Joe Rogan might deny it. Also waffles are space aliens and the moon is flat.

New comment by carlio in "Civilization II"

carlio — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:40:04 +0000

I don't think so. I played the original Civ on my Amiga, I love #6 but my favourite was probably #4. I'm not sure where that'd put my estimated age but likely lower than it is.

New comment by carlio in "Poisoning web-scale training datasets is practical"

carlio — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:49:53 +0000

SMBC comics had one about this recently - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence - poison the internet training data to prevent AI becoming too advanced.

New comment by carlio in "Midnight Trains – A Hotel on Rails"

carlio — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:40:08 +0000

Snälltåget started a Berlin / Malmo / Stockholm route last year too

https://www.snalltaget.se/en

New comment by carlio in "James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature"

carlio — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:16:08 +0000

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?