skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Kodi for many years (consistently since about 2008 and periodically before then) and stopped last year, largely because the no server, thick client architecture is less useful than it used to be. At this point almost everything I want to play video on has hardware accelerated H264 and H265 decoding, and so almost nothing I play involves transcoding. I ended up moving to Plex, not out of any particular love for Plex, just a basic idea that the value of having a server running exceeded the cost.

With Kodi I was relying on a bodge of extensions to sync watch status across clients, was maintaining libraries on clients separately (I know Kodi supports remote MySQL-managed libraries, but if I was going to run a MySQL server on my storage and run some kind of background process to handle library updating, why not run a server like Plex?)... stuff took forever to sync, performance for library management was not great. Even for browsing, I found Kodi not very performant for large libraries.

Switching away had some other benefits besides library management. Although Plex has more restrictive UI options, the default UI is much more wife/mom/friend approved. My wife had a stint in a hospital and we could watch films synced, together, using Plex (which also handled all the routing/port forwarding/whatever internally) The Sub-Zero plugin for Plex (now discontinued, but still operational) let me fill out subtitles for my content. Plex Media Manager let me integrate a bunch of external stuff into my library including syncing Letterboxd lists into my library. Mobile support is first class (including a somewhat janky download feature that's great for flying)

After switching away I kept an eye on Kodi, and the major thing I noticed is that development cadence is pretty slow at this point compared to Plex. Now, this is because Plex is VC backed and charges money for certain features, and dispositionally that annoys me a little bit. But it also does contribute to wider platform support and faster feature iteration.

A lot about Plex sucks. They piss away tons of time and effort onto VC-friendly features that have nothing to do with what Plex is. They're currently pursuing some nonsense where you use Plex to search for things available on Netflix and watch it there. They also launched their own free, ad supported streaming service which is annoyingly intrusive. They are stubborn about some design stuff that the entire userbase dislikes. They push incredibly awful changes and then act shocked when they get hundreds of comments from paying customers complaining about how bad the changes are -- recently it was a loud and annoying noise playing on startup. They reverted it after a day, but just generally I get the feeling Plex as a team either doesn't know what their audience wants or deliberately ignores it for VC reason. Obviously I'd be happier if it was free and open source.

Personally, I could easily see switching away from Plex to Jellyfin or Enby, but I can't imagine switching back to a serverless media setup.
Yeah so the biggest problem with bookmarks is that they don't sync across devices very well, and a secondary problem is that you can't tag them or leave a note about why you care.

If something is ONLY relevant to me in a work context at my work web browser I will store it as a bookmark there.

If something is related to one of my broader life projects, like it makes me take a different perspective on that thing, then I take the time to open up Google Keep, write a blurb about my new perspective, link the article, and tag it accordingly.

I've been contemplating moving these to Obsidian so that the notes can be aggregated and cross-linked, but I am noticing friction where this defeats the abstract point of bookmarks where they are "dump and go". Probably I want to keep using Keep but then have periodic checkins where I move everything from Keep into Obsidian and delete it from Keep?
Check out Jean-Michel Blais. I love his very stripped down intimate recordings.

Also I highly recommend diving into some Oscar Peterson.
Definitely see that, 90% of the time, I forget about those links, and thus they rot, but sometimes I need to go back, or want to have a well maintained list, also, would love for that list to be updated with AI and "refreshed" with updated / related content.
Decoding ArgoMoon
Do you move when you take different jobs, as the ggreer had asked above in the thread?
Same boat. I'm mentally kicking myself having moved off so long ago but not having taken the final action that would have prevented me from being caught up in this breach at all.

When I first moved off I didn't want to close the account just in case something went wrong with the transition. But after it was clear that the transition was fine, then I should have gone back and just finished up the final step.

I probably needed to do a full account cleanup anyway at some point, but I just wish I had been slightly more proactive about deleting my data. It's a good lesson to learn, I'm thinking that as part of the account cleanup I should also take a look at what other accounts I have lying around that are unnecessary.
Yeah, MIT research is... very good at PR.
In my experience this was multi-fold (and nothing to do with helping the poor)

- Housing would be built w/o appropriate ratios of schools being built in the same zone (poor city planning, and over reliance on connections vs rule of law)

- You could use connections to get to a well-rated public school w/o living in the zone, but at the expense of a local student being pushed out of zone. Note, this usually favors the rich/connected, not the poor.

- Application acceptances were at the discretion of the school w/o bright-line criteria, making favoritism a huge issue. Note, this usually favors the rich, not the poor. White the applications are straight-forward, NYC public school registrars could and would refuse to accept an application.

Ultimately, the causes do not matter -- all that matters is that the situation isnt palatable -- if you have 2 kids in two different school in two vastly different locations, and have no car, its close to impossible to drop the kids off with public transport and get to work on time.

I rely on remote work now. I go into the city 2x/wk. The school drop-offs are simple and live in a suburban township where local public school seating is guaranteed by law based on my lease/ownership address. No school registrar can mysteriously refuse to register me (havent faced that issue since i moved out of NYC), I dont need to lobby the local congress-preson to register my kids in school, nothing.

It "took a toll on NYC" but there wasnt really any real option provided by NYC.
Compile it yourself & run the binary?
Companies did RTO wrong imo, the correct incentive was bonus pay for in person. If people are going to be ruthless about money, then go for it. Prices for how much that is worth might stabilize and save companies from themselves. US cities are built around commuter models that don't work well when people don't have to come in.

Cities are very upset tax receipts are lower and are increasing taxes to shore up budgets. Not a good sign.
Not that this isn't useful, but it's a well-known and used technique often employed in column-oriented databases going back decades.
Everytime BMI is mentioned, half the internet are convinced they're comparable to olympic level weight lifters, and not just overweight.
Not quite that - they've only got one plane body (the 737). Additionally, they've got the plan for what the routes should be. If you buy a flight from Albuquerque to Chicago ( https://www.southwest.com/routes/flights-from-albuquerque-to... - https://www.southwest.com/route-map/ - https://www.southwest.com/air/low-fare-calendar/select-dates... ) there is going to be a plane flying that leg.

What they don't have is a crew that does MDW - ABQ - MDW - ABQ - MDW - ... but rather a crew that hypothetically does MDW - ABQ - HOU - BWI - MDW . The exact route is based on what capacity people have purchased on different legs and may change from loop to loop based on demand.

However, this means that if there's a something that disrupts part of that (a storm cancels all the flights in MDW and HOU for a day) and there's an odd demand pattern, the plane that needs to do the BWI to MDW route is currently in ABQ. And while there is a plane in BWI that could pick up the leg of BWI to MDW, that crew is currently on a mandatory rest period... but you could use the crew that is scheduled to be deadheaded in from AUS to DCA (and then send them by ground to BWI)... but that plane is delayed.

At some point they say/said "stop, cancel everything - demand is now 0, for all planes, reposition the planes so that we can start flights on Dec 29 according to the purchased demand."
Well, that's a good idea, nice.
I’ve been loving https://mymind.com/, which brings a lot of new innovations to a product that’s more or less bookmarking.

It tries to do a lot of curation and organization automatically, and it does a very good job at resurfacing what I’m looking for, given that I just throw things in there with minimal hand-categorization effort.
My mail provider and bank may be fine for their intended purposes, but I definitely don't trust them for storage of secrets or keys.
Because it's faster to Google something than to look for something in your bookmarks.

A few people will bookmark things. Even fewer of them will ever use those bookmarks. In most cases this will limited to a few sites with weird URLs that will often be for work and these will be on the prominent real estate just below your tabs on Chrome. Anything hidden behind a menu is strictly WORN (Write Once Read Never).

The act of organizing bookmarks in an exercise in building a hierarchical categorization, much like we had in the early Internet with the Yahoo directory and similar. These are never natural to use. The mental model is always imperfect and poorly remembered when you try to use it. It's the same reason "tagging" persists while "directories" don't.
You do because instead of resources being diverted to building mega-yachts and private jets, they will be used on resources for the non-ultra-rich
In the current system, the percentage of artists who become wealthier than average from their creations is vanishingly close to zero.

Almost all the money is skimmed by the huge range of industries that have arisen to capture the marginal proceeds created by copyright law.

Maybe you could argue that all artists are motivated by the folly of dreaming that they will be the next unicorn who actually gets rich, but I don't think most of them are that naïve. They find creating fulfilling. They would still do so with a UBI.
It’s easy[1] to open a new tab and forget about it. There’s no specific time or prompt to revisit it and make a decision to close or keep it except when your machine gets slow.

1: That is an understatement - easy as in, 100% automatic and subconscious, like taking a breath. Think about how fast you’ll rack up 7.5k breaths. It’s not a big number.
Why So Many Accountants Are Quitting
This depends on the laws of your country.

In Canada, they belong to the owner of the property they land on.

So if it lands in your yard you own it, if it lands on "Crown land" the government owns it.

Looks like things are a bit different in the US where the "Bureau of Land Management" allows private citizens to claim up to 10 lbs of material for free, and has a fee structure for people who collect for profit?

Your point of "jealousy" is unclear. why would a scientist who wants to study them be jealous?
I think specific examples would help this back on track. We have a grandparent comment and others in the thread supporting negative media narratives about KSA culture. We have a parent comment about the coverage of US business involvement with KSA and a few commenters supported that with their recollections of the media narrative around conducting business with KSA, not even getting into cultural or military problems.

It’s interesting if your media diet has changed favorably for either KSA culture, military, or business connections. Maybe the career arc of Rex Tillerson, or the investiture arc of Jared Kushner have been sculpted by some outlets and not others.
It does have a corresponding Greek title: Ἡ Ἑλληνικὴ γλῶσσα καθ᾿ αὑτὴν φωτιζομένη (right at the top). I assume the use of the Latin title is to help people who are familiar with Ørberg recognize immediately what this is.
FWIW, I've used Keepass format for years. Different clients, different syncing mechanisms, but currently on KeepassXC + Syncthing.
The Voice of Authority: How to Sound Like a Leader
This would work too, but can't as easily share, and need to switch back and forth, I suppose, but instead of using Notion, I use a markdown-based document, that I manage a lot of this in now + some firefox bookmarks.
You should be able to know all the references to a variable, if you are careful when writing your program. Also, you could write a destructor that scrambles the memory location before the object is collected. However, you would still not have control over copies that the GC may decide to make and it is a bit trickier to force a free, since the GC is in no obligation of freeing an object as soon as it has no more references (though you can probably force that to happen in most GCed languages).
Yup, exactly. Wife's job is hybrid so could probably overcome that obstacle and get to fully remote. Kids though have friends and an established school. Can't really justify pulling them out of their established lives now. If we had always been nomadic then not a big deal but hard to change now.
To be fair it’s not trying to be a guide. It’s more of a “let’s explore historical technology for education and fun.”

I love the series of his videos where he harvests and smelts iron. All using things he finds or builds in the forest.
This is true and I wonder if government in the future - maybe on some other planet - may have the equivalent of "separation of church and state".
I see what you did there haha.

My most favorite routine now is to subscribe to Hacker News RSS[0] and read top posts on my Kindle. Best of both worlds to me since HN could be quite addictive and unproductive sometimes

[0]: https://hnrss.github.io/
Bookmarks, like email, don't really need to be reinvented IMHO, they work just fine. If you don't organize them well or don't use them, that's your problem.
I never found a solution to what I actually want/need:

- Snippet bookmarking. I don't want to browse to the whole page again, just highlight and save the piece of it I need to bookmark.

- Annotations. I want to highlight, underline, bold, and comment on what I've bookmarked so that I know why I bookmarked it or what I intended to remember later.

- In an open standard, like JSON, so that I can do things with the bookmarks other than view them in your proprietary website.

Seems like a fairly simple ask, but all the software that promises to do it fell short of my expectations.
That's was it, thanks!
Apple's solution seems just great if you only use Apple products. But I use Windows too.

So I don't really think the OS is the right place for a password manager, at least not without some standardized interoperability.
If enough normal people invested in Bitcoin early the Peter Thiels of the world would find a different technology to hyperinflate so they can have a larger share of the profits
The scariest part was it was a backup of theirs that was stolen. So deleting all your info might not have even protected it. It could still be in an old backup and get stolen. :(

I've deleted my stuff now anyway, it's all we can do. :(
That's what I'm disagreeing with: there is less risk of the baby dying IN THE CRIB, but there isn't less risk of the baby dying overall, that's not assessed (and it would be very hard to prove), but the reality is just that.

Then again, the risk factors of Co-sleeping are known and can be eliminated: put the bed on the floor, remove extra pillows, use light covers or no blankets, set the room temperature to something you can sleep well while naked, no drugs/alcohol.

There is also a whole thing about the skin-to-skin sleep providing to the baby regulation for breathing and circulation (no idea about the scientific base of it, but it was told by doctors, so I assume there is some), which seems to help for other issues too, as well as being a known way to prevent SIDS.
> Perhaps creating a single view of a website/app for a frontend role. Or creating a few API endpoints for a backend role

Those things are relatively trivial, and easy to coach as well. If someone never did it before, you can easily show them how on the job. You also wouldn't have time to have them work that in an interview, so you'd need to do a take home, and then you can no longer validate they truly did it themselves, how much time they spent to do it, how much googling they had to do, how they approach the problem or delt with issues, etc.

I also find they tend to be framework/language specific, some companies even have internal frameworks and all that so they'd have to relearn part of it anyways.

> Or whiteboarding through a technical architecture

This is normally included as part of a "leetcode" like interview.

It tends to be a half day, where you're asked one or two system design questions, which are of the format you describe, and are asked one or two data structure and algorithms questions, and one or two small programming questions that checks your ability to write readable and maintainable code that is well structured, well organized and well factored. Sometimes the latter two are combined into one bigger question that tests both code design quality and requires an algorithm or special use of data structures to solve.
I mean, that doesn't sound like a great combo to be, but what do I know, maybe it could work somehow...
My tabs are mostly related to a current project, or topic - I find Opera's workspaces are great for this. But I use firefox. I've written a slightly cumbersome but necessary cli tool to extract tabs from the session file and add project or topic tags, then open a filtered list in a window. I find this preferable to all the firefox workflows I've tried. All I wanted for christmas was firefox workspaces.
Other comments have described the situation well, but I want to note that “suburbs” like this are pretty common in the US, but not like the only place to live. In particular they are a place where lots of people move when they are getting established in their careers, and starting to have kids — lots of people grew up in them so they get an outsized weight I think.

We also have college towns and small cities! I tend to pick places where there’s something walkable, and have never lived in a place where I couldn’t walk to a shop or restaurant (although ”walkable” is subjective I guess, I’ve been in places where I had to walk 45 minutes through parking lots to get groceries).

I dunno, suburbs are a funny thing… it is easily knowable what they are and what you are signing up for when you move to them, but lots of people end up there as a sort of default choice (or maybe not really a choice, they can be the most affordable place to get a house that fits multiple kids comfortably and isn’t in the absolute middle of nowhere).
If you want to go down this route, we know nothing of the real world from strict deductive reasoning because the axioms strict deduction flows from do not apply to the real world, but to mathematical universes where absolute truth is accessible to us. In reality, all statements we could use as premises are only probably true to a certain level of confidence, having themselves been constructed from inductive reasoning. Therefore, appeal to a good authority is as good of a step as any, by which I mean it's only provisionally worthwhile unless and until sufficient evidence comes in to demonstrate it is invalid in a specific case.
Is anybody else bothered that they can't put it in the Google store because they chose to support an older version of Android than what's allowed?
have you ever tried this? what was the longest stretch you had without a job?
> for most normal end-users having _any_ password manager is better than trying to keep all your passwords in your brain, which leads to password re-use and easy-to-guess passwords, etc

Indeed. Writing down passwords on a pad of paper next to your computer is a valid practice for most people if we're being realistic, particularly for personal computer use. Even leaving passwords in an unencrypted text file on your desktop is not nearly as bad today as it used to be 20 years ago. Pretty much anything is better than using the same 8 letter password on every single website. That's the status quo which needs to be toppled.
LOL, I've seen like 50+ on someones screen / zoom, and I'm like Matt how do you even know what's open!
About ten years ago I switched to saving pages as PDF into my dropbox folder. Works a charm and on my Mac spotlight search works with it remarkably well. I still use browser's bookmarks bar for sites I use frequently but I deleted all the other bookmarks.
If you could do that, what value would the business have?
No, but that's because I don't have to because I drive to work*, in contravention to Terretta's suggestion "if people could live above or around (walkable distance even in bad weather) where they work...The automobile society notion of residential far from workplace is just bad."

* One of those jobs was close enough to walk (1.1 miles). I would regularly walk that commute, in most anything less than hellish rain or heavy snow. But that means that my previous job from that residence was 2.7 miles away, which isn't nearly as practical to walk year-round in New England.
If they go out of their way avoid saying it’s vegan then I won’t waste my time on it as it may not actually be vegan, despite the listed ingredients. It’s suspicious.
There is nothing scientific in your answer. All of the pit bull's violent "nature" was trained and bred-in by people, on purpose. The breed's name comes from a violent game involving pits and bulls which you can investigate.

As long as we continue to breed-in, train for, and encourage this behavior, it's what we will get. Modern dog behavior science now understands that dogs communicate with sophisticated body language and react to each others' communications by releasing hormones that affect the entire body. When the dose reaches a high enough level, the dog is left with few choices as to its reactions. THAT part is built-in. But humans can and must manage the situations where we place these dogs and the behaviors that we model for them. We've done a terrible job of that and it shows in the breed behavior.
Bitwarden is in the business of doing business, too. But their source code is publicly available. A lot of it is even under GPL:

https://github.com/bitwarden/server/blob/master/LICENSE_FAQ....
Similarly, you could proxy your service through another hostname?
The third point also made complete sense to me. My family has been using a Discord server to communicate for years now, and at first people thought that was strange. It's social media for people you really know and interact with, not a BS news feed. Think of it as a real network, not a fake network or an entertainment network. And a dozen other services function in the same way.

But I get invited into discord servers for developers I work with, interests, I share, and I think it is getting to be more and more common. Some people will spend time in fake networks and probably not get a lot of value out of them other than entertainment. And others will gravitate to real networks for communication.
Clever, surprisingly, I've never seen this, I'm going to clone it, also I'm a gopher as well :)