MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-09-21 23:02:40+00:00
> Is that actually true?

It really depends on your personal needs, so your mileage may wary, but having run xtruss on most of the X11 programs I use: It's true for me at least.

The key thing is that most modern clients (and Xlib vs. Xcb doesn't matter much in this respect) use exceedingly few features of the protocol.

E.g. you'll find very few modern clients that actually uses the X protocol to draw lines with any complex options. You'll also find very few attempts at using exotic visuals, because most X servers won't support them anyway.

To take a more extreme example: You could probably get away with just ripping out most or all server-side font-rendering support. Most modern X apps use Xrender, and render the glyphs client side and creat a glyph set via Xrender or just render the whole buffer client side.

Removing those will break apps, including some that some people care about (like xterm), but API surface is similar enough that it'd be reatively easy to fix the few apps people care about, or just providing an optional shim for Xlib as a temporary measure.

For own my own use, if I were to write an X server to meet my needs, I'd just not support it - I've checked with xtruss and none of the apps I care about rely on server-side fonts at all, and none of them use any drawing primitives but the most basic line drawing and rectangles either, and all of them are capable of handling an X server that refuses anything but truecolor visuals.

I could rip out large parts of the drawing code from Xorg and all the apps I run would still work just fine...

For other people, of course, this would be a different matter, and that's fine. But I think moving a bunch of that code to an Xlib-compatible library to handle client side as a means to carry over legacy apps would be an option as a means to let people evolve leaner X servers and move shift the hassle of managing legacy code to those who care about the legacy apps.
Show HN: Jellyfin SDK for Python – high-level wrapper around the Jellyfin API
by webysther | 2025-09-21 23:03:24+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a new Python SDK for Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/).

The official Python client jellyfin-apiclient-python (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-apiclient-python) is pretty much unmaintained, and I kept running into rough edges (missing exceptions, mismatched info/config, no playlist support, etc.).

So I built a new library: jellyfin-sdk (https://github.com/webysther/jellyfin-sdk-python). It’s basically a high-level wrapper on top of OpenAPI-generated bindings, with some nicer patterns (method chaining, JSONPath, inversion of control). A few things it does differently:

- Target specific Jellyfin server versions (avoid breakage when APIs change)

- Handle multiple servers (different versions, same client)

- Drop-in replacement for the legacy client, but with fixes

- Debug mode that prints every request as `curl` (super useful when Jellyfin acts weird)

Install:

pip install jellyfin-sdk

Quick example:

import jellyfin, os

api = jellyfin.api(os.getenv("URL"), os.getenv("API_KEY"))

print(api.system.info.version, api.system.info.server_name)

Docs: https://webysther.github.io/jellyfin-sdk-python.github.io/sd...

GitHub: https://github.com/webysther/jellyfin-sdk-python

I’d love feedback — especially from anyone running Jellyfin at home and hacking around with its API.
by godelski | 2025-09-21 23:03:33+00:00
> you're out of anything meaningful to add.

You're right. I think that was mentioned a number of comments ago. We haven't been shy about noting that the conversation is going in circles and you've failed to address our points or present alternatives. You have absolute confidence in your solution, yet have not elaborated on what that is or how it solves the problems we've discussed. You've continued to hyperfixate on an alias. You've continued to complain about an inability to do things a certain way while we've stated that your way also works. I mean that's what an alias is...

The problem isn't that we disagree with you, the problem is you are not making an attempt to have a productive conversation. So we gave up.
by 0_____0 | 2025-09-21 23:04:01+00:00
I think your friend spoke a kernel of truth while misunderstanding what Apple do well. It's pretty rare that they come out with something that hasn't been done at small scale previously, but they have insane scale (100s of millions of iPhones sold per model), and a well-developed ability to take cutting edge techniques, as well as some tech that is in development but not ready for prime time, and integrate it and release it in products a year before anyone else can tool up to compete.
by musicale | 2025-09-21 23:04:06+00:00
Probably Berkeley (not UCLA) is the top-tier UC.

Yale is part of the Ivy League and was founded ~65 years after Harvard. Also ranking #1-#2 for producing US presidents, Harvard-Yale is probably a somewhat better US university analog to Oxford-Cambridge.

Stanford is well-regarded and may be a solid competitor to Harvard in a number of ways (#1 in Turing awards, #2 in VC-backed startups behind Berkeley, etc.) but it was founded 250 years later (considered a long time in the US) and has a smaller endowment (4th place, behind Harvard, UT, and Yale.) It has also only produced one US President: Herbert Hoover.

MIT is a top tier school though more focused on technology (it's in the name). MIT has a business school (Sloan), but a Harvard/Yale/Stanford will include a business school, law school, med school (etc.) and a range of well-regarded programs in humanities and social sciences in addition to science and engineering.
by nikolay | 2025-09-21 23:04:37+00:00
Well, people who know nothing about Russia or Russians, but are so afraid of them are mental cases. What does Kaja Kalla or Merz know about Russia?! Merz openly says he hates Russia for what it's done it its country. Well, I think, they got less than they deserved for what they've done to the world! And now they want the Fourth Reich - it will end up even more butthurt than the Third, we all know that! Maybe Germany should be erased from the map if they keep starting world wars!
by tomhow | 2025-09-21 23:04:37+00:00
It's not clear what you were intending to achieve with this, but please don't post off-topic inflammatory comments here. HN is for curious conversation, not whatever this is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303687 and marked it off topic.
by sethops1 | 2025-09-21 23:04:46+00:00
Just want to plug https://github.com/ChristopherHX/github-act-runner (not mine)

It's re-implementation of the GHA self-hosted runner in Go for self-hosted runners, based on the popular https://github.com/nektos/act for running GHA locally. Been using this for over a year now and it's been infinitely useful for CI on otherwise unsupported systems (e.g. freeBSD, openBSD in my case).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-21 23:04:47+00:00
Maybe. As long as elections are still held, should be fine. Assuming they aren't, you can either decide to leave (valid, lower risk exposure, no shame in self preservation) or ensure elections continue to be held (higher risk exposure). The higher your risk tolerance, the more you should consider this an opportunity (once in a lifetime) to flex constitution and grit development.

~2M voters (the margin of victory for the last presidential election) 55+ age out every year, ~5k per day. Rural America is rapidly evaporating with farmers (75-80% of whom voted for this) in extreme financial distress from the self inflicted trade war (China is zeroing out US ag imports as a show of counterforce, and they can outlast this admin). Rural hospitals are similarly at a breaking point with ~700 hospitals expected to close soon (~300 imminently) due to Medicaid cuts from the OBBB. And of course, he is beyond male life expectancy while having symptoms of late stage congestive heart disease and failure. "Hold fast." Embrace the suck while progress occurs one funeral at a time (Planck's principle).
by mmmBacon | 2025-09-21 23:05:11+00:00
The Surfliner in Southern California is a great deal. Take the business class ticket. OC to San Diego is a breeze and you can relax and enjoy all beach towns with a glass of wine. Took it from OC to Santa Barbara. It takes about an hour longer than driving but so worth it. Can’t say enough good things about it. Views in all directions totally amazing. Trains are packed at times but it’s good to see.

I think high speed cross country rail travel is not very practical either to build or for travelers. The distances are too large, terrain too difficult and population densities are too low west of the Mississippi. It’s worth noting that the US train network is optimized for freight and we carry much more freight than many countries by rail.

High population density corridors like BOS-NYC-PHL-DC and SB-LA-OC-SD make a lot of sense and would be great to see even better service. We are seeing a high-speed, private service building track between Ontario, CA and Las Vegas. Distances to Vegas and Phoenix are short enough and population densities high enough that it makes travel by train from SoCal competitive with driving and air.
by michaelsbradley | 2025-09-21 23:05:45+00:00
Yep, clearly you didn’t read the papers. Shapes that appear spontaneously in laboratory plasma are carefully compared with shapes made/drawn by humans all over the world at various times and locations in the distant past.

“Directionality and source” is literally the sub/title of the second paper and it explores what theory and evidence-data suggest.

Although the second paper had the term “archaeoastronomy” (only) in its index terms, it is confusing (at best) to categorize it that way as the phenomena manifested in Earth’s atmosphere not in outer space among the planets and stars.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 23:07:05+00:00
The ADHD culture is particularly dangerous because it is a license to get dangerous addictive drugs that frequently get diverted. Used as directed people don't have trouble in the short term but I know a lot of 50-somethings who were in school districts that were early adopters of the ADHD construct and a lot of them are in terrible shape. When people save up a week worth of meds and take them at once they often wind up in the psych ward.

When you see the drugged out people who drive people out of cities into the suburbs or give you another reason to order a private taxi for your burrito [1], note that psychosis is frequently caused or exacerbated by amphetamines. Plenty of people who get a prescription and who feel poor and that the world is unfair develop a "tolerance" for their meds because they are keeping 1 and selling 2 and they're contributing to that visible disorder you see.

[1] https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/good-cities-cant-exist-without...
by herval | 2025-09-21 23:07:10+00:00
> Go read the emails the administration was sending to Twitter demanding people be taken down left and right.

They used twitter’s appeal process at the time. Twitter was never forced to take anyone down. The emails prove that, in fact. Twitter was a fairly neutral player (as much as social media platforms can be neutral) and tried to abide by US free speech rules plus their TOS (which is what extremists try to misunderstand: companies don’t have to abide by “free speech”, they’re private enterprises and have terms of use).

> look at what European governments demand from social media companies.

European governments follow European laws and require companies operating in Europe to comply. It’s not complicated.

Your worldview seems to be that anyone that’s not MAGA is “the left” and the whole world should follow American laws. That’s not how any of it works. You’re letting your brain be hijacked by fear and identity politics. It’s not healthy for you.
by rando001111 | 2025-09-21 23:08:56+00:00
You're talking like Oxford is some school for shitdogs now.

I went to an unranked school here in Canada for electrical engineering and graduated this year. I did a couple co-ops, won a couple engineering competitions and had my EIT job lined up for me after graduation. Started work a week after classes ended.

Rankings are not the end-all be-all for uni.
by bbor | 2025-09-21 23:09:02+00:00
That paper is pretty... out there, sorry. There's a reason people look for credentials -- to screen out work like this!

1. The random insinuation halfway through that ancient humans had secret advanced civilizations seems completely uncalled-for, and would put any discerning reviewer on edge. Which is I guess why this is in a plasma science journal and not an anthropology one?

2. AFAIK, the whole thing only works if A) aliens, B) Sol put off 10-100 times more radiation than it does today, or C) "another source of plasma were to enter the solar system" (???).

3. Figure 30 especially cracks me up, where he argues that a figure with hands and genitals isn't a human, but rather a geometric shape. IDK... seems like a reach. Ditto for explaining spirals as recordings of the sky rather than a basic shape found throughout nature right here on earth.
by paulcole | 2025-09-21 23:10:41+00:00
Yeah that was essentially my takeaway as well.

The author thought the people she was working for were Really Special People and that by extension she was a Really Special Person. She gets very upset when she sees that are just Ordinary People and that by extension she is just an Ordinary Person as well.

And how could she be just an Ordinary Person and so sad/stressed at the same time?
by SamBam | 2025-09-21 23:10:53+00:00
I wonder how the emotional attitudes of the ere they recreate might affect this? If in 30 years I'm placed in an environment that recreates 2020, down to signs on doors telling me to wear a mask and wash my hands, mortality graphs on my browser tabs, and hate and stupidity on the news, I'm not sure I'd suddenly find my posture straightening and my age lines disappearing.
by owenversteeg | 2025-09-21 23:11:01+00:00
Hm, strange. That has been allowed for many years now, you do pay a fee of 10 euros though. There are no restrictions on where you can ride the bikes either.

https://www.ns.nl/klantenservice/deur-tot-deur-diensten/ov-f...

>Kan ik een OV-fiets op een andere locatie inleveren?

>Je kunt een OV-fiets ook op een andere locatie inleveren. Je betaalt dan wel € 10 extra. Deze extra kosten zijn voor het verplaatsen van de fiets.

>Lever je de fiets in bij een andere locatie op hetzelfde station? Dan betaal je niks extra.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-09-21 23:11:20+00:00
The "subconscious" part of the brain processes huge amounts of information, and a lot of thought is actually subconscious manipulation. Conscious attentive deliberate thought is much slower and typically estimated at ~10 bits per second (if that is even the right unit!!!).

When I was nude drawing, the first few poses were always very short (half a minute or a minute) and towards the end of a session the poses took longer. Forcing the brain to make quick decisions (and yes, err along the way) is a fantastic method to force the brain to learn, the sense of urgency and the sense of importance are very much related.

Reflexive / reaction speed computer games force a player to learn.

I believe its possible to upload neural network weights to the human brain by reaction speed games.

I agree with your assessment of the driving force behind machine learning (laying off workers), but I believe it will usher in a new Enlightenment era, where the tremendous energy intensive computations to summarize human knowledge into a compressed form of neural weights results in the democratization of all this knowledge (and if those MBA's had this foresight, they wouldn't share those weights at all! unless they secretly "fight babylon from the inside out").

I will soon try this on a smaller model (that has basic ~100-language knowledge).

The main issues are transforming the model weights so that all weights are embedding weights (moving the attention and feed-forward weights to token weights), but this requires knowledge distillation, and I know what form I want, but not sure if I have the requisite compute to do it.

The second issue is figuring out how many weights per day one can learn.
by shiomiru | 2025-09-21 23:11:21+00:00
The Unlicense isn't "just" public domain though, it also has a fallback clause that explicitly lists things you are allowed to do ("copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute"). So I think the intent is, even if PD isn't recognized and line 1 is invalid, you're still granting a license to the same effect.

SQLite on the other hand just says

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

which seems less useful once you strike sentence 1.
by Zee2 | 2025-09-21 23:11:23+00:00
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!

(This is mostly facetious)
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 23:11:33+00:00
Take a heavy dose of benzos and you will look superficially like you're asleep, someone might try to rouse you and be unable to do it.

My take on benzos is that by binding to the receptors it does it opens up ion channels that drain the electricity out of your associative networks, suppressing just about everything.

Sleep it turns out is a structured state of unconsciousness and the EEG will show the person "sleeping" under the influence of beznos isn't actually asleep but they're unresponsive and amnesiac so they think they slept and so did onlookers.
by DannyBee | 2025-09-21 23:12:58+00:00
Look - this is a really bad answer in a lot of ways, but rather than excoriate you for it, i'll try to be helpful by pointing out a simple fact:

You are saying that it does some things. Literally everyone who could ever want to pay you money to use this or future models are going to try it, see that it does not appear to do what they expect for those things, and then:

1. Not want to pay you money

2. Be much harder to attract again in the future. Once bitten, twice shy.

This seems like a bad plan?
by OJFord | 2025-09-21 23:13:30+00:00
I may have an overly STEM-centric view, but I don't think Yale has anything like the reputation of MIT internationally. I'm only really aware of it from Americans (in Hollywood, newsletters, etc.) being impressed by lawyers' and MBAs' credentials.

Anyway, I don't think the specifics really matter, point is it's not unusual to have a bunch of extremely good universities and then a handful or fewer that are for whatever reason the first-to-mind 'best' ones.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-09-21 23:13:59+00:00
Batteries have different capacities at different C rate discharge. 1C is the amperage listed as the battery amp hours, but at higher discharge, batteries have a lower capacity. Some batteries handle higher discharge better than others (closer to the rated capacity). You can of course estimate the battery capacity in watt hours, but it’s not how the battery is classified (eg in a data sheet)
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-21 23:15:43+00:00
No. It's just hyperbole. It's true that Trump has some worrying authoritarian tendencies. He's shoving his agenda through with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and has created multiple constitutional crises. He's determined to fulfill his campaign promises and carry out his vision as fast as possible before fully considering the consequences and demands absolute loyalty from everyone in his party and kicks out anyone who speaks out against him. Just the other day i read how Obama criticised him and thought for a moment unironically "wow that's brave of him".

Where was i again? Oh yeah. I think it's just a transient phenomena. America needs a lot of fixing and Trump doesn't have a lot of time. He certainly doesn't want to waste it clarifying the legal limits of his authority. But no. The US is fundamentally too strong to fall like that.

Earlier today [1] in response to a comment of mine and in all seriousness someone bemoaned the fact that America was so terribly authoritarian that Trump has the House, Judiciary and most of the voters on his side! Yeah democracy can be inconvenient like that sometimes.

My opinion is that Trump is the hero america needs not the one it deserves. I'm not coming to trivialise anyones concerns but i don't think he's the antichrist people make him out to be. He's been doing a truly absurd amount of winning from his perspective at least and if anything is a great example of how much a truly powerful Western leader can achieve. The only question that remains is if his policies are correct or not which is a matter of rigorous debate, not all of which is conducted in good faith.

[1]I'll post the relevant part here for convenience >>What's interesting is that the gaps in our political system that allow him to do so many illegal and distasteful things have always been there. The framers of the constitution never anticipated all three branches of government colluding together in alignment and bad faith, with the vociferous support of roughly half the voting population.
by zkitty | 2025-09-21 23:15:47+00:00
I received this email too. The page title was "Gitcoin | $15M Github Developer Fund 2025 (Issue #225)". The application link is https://gitcoin-developers.com. Obviously copied site from https://gitcoin.co Full email is here. https://jumpshare.com/s/p7Nk2sioWJDZpRjhFutY
by DannyBee | 2025-09-21 23:16:25+00:00
Errr, what?

First, you are not actually correct on the question.

Here, let me quote the question:

"Honest question, does it aerosolize pathogens that cause food-borne illness?"

That is literally not "does it aerosolize fluids", which is what you claim the question is.

My first sentence: "Interesting question, short answer - almost certainly not any more or less than you are already, and to the degree it does, it almost certainly is making things better and not worse"

How is that not a literal answer?

Again, the question was about aerosolizing pathogens that cause foodborne illness, not just random fluids. So i explained why ultrasonic knives are not going to do that more than normal knife would, and assuming we only care about pathogens cause foodborne illness, will do so much less.

Sure, it can aerosolize lime juice. Lime juice is not a pathogen that causes food borne illness?

If your answer is atually meant to claim it aerosolizes pathogens much more than a normal knife, please cite data or studies or some other form of science. I can give you citations to literally every claim i made. I wrote most of the science reasons. The video does not show anything related to pathogens.

Otherwise, i think it is you who is not answering the question asked, which was not about fluids?
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 23:17:10+00:00
I like this concept

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

in that it describes the interaction of poverty and mental illness which can well be interpreted in a left-wing frame (these people are victims of the system, they need to get some more resources to get their footing) or a right-wing frame (these people don't take responsibility, they drive away, squander or destroy resources)

At times theories of broad trauma were respectable such as Freud's Oedipus theory and even today I think certain kinds of organizations such as the U.S. Marines and the medical profession can be seen as transmitting their culture through traumatic experiences.