skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be the transcoding that is the issue. Whether that is because you don't have a direct path, bandwidth issues, or because of codec issues.

Not all devices support all codecs. Any disagreement means that Plex is now going to try transcoding, even if the hardware capability isn't there (and most NASs don't have the grunt to do it).

You have options.

Spend more disk space: You can tell Plex to transcode copies into lower bitrate versions it makes them available via the UI (although this isn't always obvious how, and varies on platform). Note that on a NAS this might take a day to transcode a movie. During which your ability to use the NAS for anything else is greatly reduced.

Spend more effort: Re-rip or re-encode everything into a known supported format. You will need to maintain this. Tools like Tdarr may help here.

More compute power (and some effort):

If your content is in 1080p and you want to view it in 1080p or lower then reasonably-modern Intel CPUs with support for QuickSync are pretty good at handling transcoding for 1080p. Plex Media server has an option to enable hardware-accellerated transcoding if you pay for Plex.

An older Intel NUC or Small-form-factor PC can usually do this job fine. They can also be fairly power efficient.

If you want to start throwing in 4k content, then you are going to need a GPU and the cost and complexity goes up.
I think it helps that the HN userbase is primarily smart people who don't take kindly to gratuitous obnoxiousness and trolling. Most of the moderation is done by the community itself: cause trouble, and you get downvoted. The really egregious ones might get a response from mods.

I've noticed something similar on Ars Technica: again, you have a userbase of intelligent professionals, many of whom are long-term regulars. It's a culture that's naturally troll-resistant.

I think building this sort of culture on social media is a lot harder, because social media sites are typically focused on the exact opposite qualities: reflexive, drive-by responses; transient users who have no real investment in the community; and, overall, a userbase that's steeped in pervasive, unchecked toxicity and has started to enjoy it.
> discard the physical discs.

Donate to the library at least.

> burned DVDs can have a lifetime of less than 5 years in some cases.

My CD-Rs from '97 are in fine shape, thanks.
I just did the same thing. It sent me on a campaign to recover an ancient artifact, but it played out the whole scenario for me without stopping to ask what decisions I would make, and there was zero conflict along the way. Nice descriptions of the forest and labyrinth my character had to navigate though.
There's nothing holier-than-thou about my comment. Drug safety protocols (such as testing your product with small doses) have always existed in one form or another. PiHKAL and TiHKAL and the public library have existed before the internet. Making uninformed decisions with strong mind-altering substances which are active in the milligram range is a choice. The user is still responsible for their safety. Information was available to those who sought it then as it is now; and most people now still do not use the resources available to them.

We can definitely be safer than ever today and that might allow more room for experimentation. The fact is that if one had less information back then, they should evaluate whether taking drugs is worth the risk.
Oh, so you're disputing the reason of what the military drill is for?

https://www.newsweek.com/xi-jinping-speech-suggests-china-in...

It's no secret what they want to do with Taıwan and what these exercises are for.

Only one country is poking at the other and won't rule out an invasion, no matter how you try to spin it.
I'm not an expert at JS, but can't you use npm to do multiple things if you choose? I.e. build, install, create a place to install some package. In Python, traditionally, this would need separate tools (setuptools, pip, virtualenv). That's what the author meant – not that there are no competitors.
This does it more for me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9XhLca9JSk
It's not a case of what is technically possible, it's a case of swimming against the current while you could also choose to swim somewhere else. If you choose something that is not what you want, and you also accept that the world isn't static, but is constantly moving and due to the way it is interconnected you have to keep up at least a little bit, you will be unhappy no matter how hard you try to turn the thing you didn't want into something you did want.

It might make much more sense to just get the thing you wanted in the first place, right?
I suspect Microsoft knows full well that 343 wouldn't be capable of producing a "metaverse". Activision though? With a sort of contiguous open world standardize "game engine" used by all the properties? Now we're talking real metaverse tech.
Why haven’t they done so yet?

"Navy Secretary Warns: If Defense Industry Can’t Boost Production, Arming Both Ukraine and the US May Become ‘Challenging’"

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/01/navy-secretary-wa...
> Your downside is never capped, of course.

What?

Unless your work literally drives you to suicide, the cap on the downside is 'You go out and interview until you find another job.'

You aren't risking your own money - you're an employee. You get paid for your work.
Who else is there to blame? Autoworkers ganged up on their employers and attempted to capture more value than they contributed. The employers reacted predictably, and diversified their production across (many) other states.

Unsustainable is unsustainable, regardless of politics.
Events in Ukraine made us realize that, when one side makes a bunch of threats, and then does a huge "drill" on the borders of the other side, sometimes that's the prelude to an invasion.
If that were the system, doctors would be incentivized to sign up as many healthy young people as possible, and to fire them as patients as soon as they got sick.
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How would you compare that against the US wanting to take proper control over Hawaii by any means necessary? Puerto Rico? Cuba?

For a long time, the US has been content treating Hawaii as a tourist destination and military base, but should the federal government laws apply there?
Some programs, like sshd and chromium, make use of this fact to change the process name as shown in procfs and ps. On Linux, every string that argv[] and envp[] point to are stored in one contiguous block of memory. Programs can change the name of the process by writing a new string starting at *argv[0] and overflowing into the *envp[] memory as needed. (Though the program needs to strdup() the environ[] entries beforehand since they initially point to envp[] strings.)

For example, chromium's implementation: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/refs/tag...
Given these examples, I don't really see why anyone would replace Pandas with Polars for existing workloads. Memory's not an issue because they already bought the DIMMs (which have gotten insanely cheap). Personally I don't find the speed of Pandas to be that bad if you use it smartly (e.g., not parsing data more often than you have to).
That’s fair, it sounds at least conceptually possible.
One avenue for text games is the BBS “door” games of the 1990s, which you can still find online today (see: telnetbbsguide.com). Trade Wars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Barren Realms Elite are some classics. These are turns-based games where you log in each day to play your set of turns. It can be addictive.
Zork is of course the quintessential TBAG, alongside Hitchikers.

A couple of other good ones:
Vespers: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6dj2vguyiagrhvc2
9:05: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=qzftg3j8nh5f34i2
Slouching Towards Bedlam: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78 (I haven't actually played this one but it's on my list)

I usually play Zork using the Rezrov project: https://metacpan.org/dist/Games-Rezrov/view/rezrov
Perhaps they believe working for big tech will lead to the eternal damnation of your soul.
I agree nothing in that article was a compelling argument
How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16
This article [0] submitted a few days ago makes me think there are a lot more reasons than just chipmaking for defending Taiwan.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417336
The Nuclear Secrecy Blog specializes in everything nuclear weapons: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/

The Atlantic Magazine has published some good pieces about the nuclear risks of the Ukraine war:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/polan...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/russias-in...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/russia-ukr...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/us-nucl...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/putin-russ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/russia-ukr...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/putin-russ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/russia-ukr...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/ukraine-ru...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/putin-nucl...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/a-uniquely...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/russia-put...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/russia-put...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-nucl...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/nuclear-gl...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/trump-bide...
https://beej.us/ But, like I said, not super impressive.

I still maintain though if folks spent the time on it, they could get same the effect they were looking for with 10% the bandwidth.
Things are breaking down everyday, and there is a large army of ants scurrying about keeping the lights on with shoe strings and bubble gum.

Russia has been bombing Ukraine infra from Oct, used thousands of missiles and things are still running - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_st....
Most places - 100% legal unless you live in a no-fly zone or exceed regional elevation ceilings.
It doesn't count `failure` — just the number of rows. But neither does the pandas version: `pd_df.groupby(['date'])['failure'].count()` and `pd_df.groupby(['date']).count()` are the same except the former returns a single `pd.Series` with the count and the latter produces a `pd.DataFrame` where each column has the same count (not super useful).

e.g.

> iris.groupby('species').count()
sepal_length sepal_width petal_length petal_width
species
setosa 50 50 50 50
versicolor 50 50 50 50
virginica 50 50 50 50

vs.

> iris.groupby('species')['sepal_length'].count()
species
setosa 50
versicolor 50
virginica 50
Ah, yes. "When life gives you lemons, get a superpower on another continent to subsidize you to diversify your lemonaid production to within their borders."
Motivations aside, this alongside the weather-induced trouble seen in Texas makes it seem like a really good idea to start putting into place some decentralization… the impact of a substation or other infrastructure being out is reduced considerably when a decent percentage of the buildings on the grid have solar panels and batteries to fall back on.
They also drove around with their cellphones, were caught on camera, had long rap sheets for previous criminal offenses, and a history of meth addiction... It seems entirely plausible that the idiots just kept driving around shooting substations until the lights went out.

Also, if they had any basis whatsoever for a terrorism charge, I would have expected the DA to charge it. The media exposure and increase in profile would be irresistible, and charges can always be dropped later.
Binance is by no means an "honest business," and never has been. Nobody even knows where they're incorporated.
> Wait! You say there is no body cam footage? That the police went into the woods to make a dangerous arrest without any attempt to document their actions? Then that's easy too: assume it's murder unless they can prove otherwise by some facts beyond police testimony.

Dangerous arrest? They weren't raiding a cartel den. They were evicting protesters/activists from a forest. You then argue that absent any evidence, we should assume that the cops were the bad guys and the activists were the good guys. But you can't have it both ways. If the activists were known to be dangerous, then we shouldn't assume that the cops were engaging in "murder". For instance, I doubt that The Guardian or many anti-police commentators would be decrying the lack of bodycam footage if they were raiding a cartel compound. On the flip side, if the activists weren't known to be dangerous, then your argument for "the police went into the woods to make a dangerous arrest without any attempt to document their actions" falls apart. Don't get me wrong, I'm pro body cams and think they should be present in cases like this, but assuming every instance without bodycam is police acting in bad faith is just political grandstanding.
Congress chopped 90% of the Hololens budget for this fiscal year due in large part to poor results of the field testing. $400M turned into $40M. It's not dead but MS can't sustain the size of the program.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/congress_hololens_mic...
I started writing mine and got lost in it so thoroughly that I realized - about 8 years later - that it was a bit too ambitious.

The title made it simple Adaptive monitoring.

I worked in a small AI/ML company as an "SRE" (back then we haven't even heard of that acronym), so it seemed like a good fit. Just throw in some predictors, train it on the alerting data (when the oncall person just ignores it and the alert is not solved then it was a real false positive, right?) and so on. Also based on confidence scores decrease sampling rate for stuff that doesn't tend to break. Oh and also the local agent should pull the some pretrained predictors from the controller so it can locally switch to higher sampling if some patterns occur, this would catch those pesky hard to debug transient bugs/errors.

...

truth be told I got lost in chapter 1, because I had no idea what to actually write and implement from all this.

so no thesis, but years later I got a nice part of an ADHD diagnosis out of it!
Obviously this was done as a fun exercise, rather than as a practical reference. Other important factors:

1. Does your area have significant road salt? This brings your frame's lifetime way down.

2. What are the consequences of your car being in the shop, cost- and convenience-wise?

3. Going along with (2), how quickly do you need to fix your AC if it dies?

4. For lower volume cars, does your area have a good mechanic that likes to work on your car and has parts (90s Saabs and their Saab graveyards come to mind.)

5. Some cars are designed with a pile of ridiculous features because their owners' blindspot for anything past a 3 year ownership length. My limited awareness suggests that this is common in the 50k+ range of SUVs.

6. Do you know the seller? You should be willing to pay up and make compromises for a car from someone you know and believe to be a conscientious owner.
> shoot a part that is filled with fluid and hard to replace

One fairly simple defense is to set up an opaque wall around it, so if they are outside the perimeter fence they cannot see the target.
I tried to seriously use Polars in a side project and while I do like that the API surface is a little smaller, and cleaner, it's quite verbose. And I ran into a few bugs doing "basic" things that made me think it's not quite ready for prime time yet. I think with a bit more development and a more interactive-friendly API it would be awesome though.
Why? Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a remarkable book. If you’ve only seen the movie you might get the wrong impression of the book. I had to turn the movie off after just a few minutes.
Or the US prisoner population being 90% male. Or 94% of all preschool teachers being female.
I wonder if it's just a crank. Like a guy that got fired from the power company vs some ideological motivation.
In case anyone is considering taking this headline seriously, please don’t forget the safety advances you will be missing. Most 14 year old cars won’t have, say, a back up camera or blind spot detection.
I've had issues with inflammation for most of my life and this line of thinking has always worried me. I just had to do a full blood panel last week for a new doctor in my quest to understand the inflammation throughout my body. I have been feeling less and less mentally acute lately and I wonder if the inflammation is finally having a neurological effect.
> the next 5-10 years will see a massive wave of new companies come out of this

I want this to be true, but I don't see how.

Good talent is still locked up in BigTech.

Talent that got freed up was working on things BigTech had no way of make money off of, even long term.

On the other hand, SmallTech offers now have a better chance, and seem attractive, to said talent. That must count for something.

This round of layoffs is proof that BigTech safety net is a lie. But not enough to push people with dependents to take on the pain and uncertainty that starting up ensues.
> This is defeatist, and ignores the second-order advantages of Free and Open Source software.

That's both a gross misrepresentation of what I wrote, and completely wrong too. It doesn't matter how open your software sources are if you run it on closed hardware. And unless you go back to ancient hardware, it will be closed enough that you do not get what you think you are getting.

At the same time, it's also just realistic: if you buy something that is made to cater to a market segment that expects a lot of complex systems to appear to work together in a seamless way, supporting many features requiring many thousands of top-tier engineers to build and maintain for many years, then you, a solo user, are not likely to be able to contain the same amount of knowledge and time to see every detail and component of such a system. So no, the product, the context and biology will not allow you to contain such a system in a single mind.

Same goes for what you call user-hostile. If you ask a user which OS is more user-hostile out of a list that contains any Linux-distribution, but also Windows and macOS, it doesn't matter what is technically measures, what matters is that the user will call out that Linux distribution for being user-hostile. Again, it's not about wat is technically possible, what has been done, or what some individual does for themselves, it's about the giant user base that the commercial giants are targeting with their products.

As for telemetry: just because alarmists alarm about it all day long doesn't mean it's universally bad. What is bad is going it for user profiling and not telling about it, but if I need to know how my software is performing, I know ahead of time that asking my user base is a waste of time. Either I'll need automated reporting of things like crashes, performance measurements and spindumps, or I can't do much to make the software better. There are too many configurations and situations out there to realistically cover using some imagination and testing. Even on Debian, popcon is super useful, and people who complain about their stuff not making it on disk 1 are usually also the ones not submitting. You get what you pay for, and if you don't supply how you use the product, chances are you're not going to get an improvement you like. That is a choice to make, but removing it completely "because telemetry bad" is kinda dumb.
Because they don't have to, yet. It's an "if", and it's a big "if".

IMO, the US should publicly commit to a solid order for a very large number of the weapon systems Taiwan and Ukraine would likely need in an extended double conflict. We saw in COVID (with things like tests) that "we need a billion of X, but we'll dribble out the order in much smaller quantities" tends to make industry leery of evaporating demand after making big capital investments.
My point... They would never have become that big otherwise. Same for Tether.
NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: Boot to LVGL
21 year old Saturn LW200 with cloth seats here. Seats are still great. I also own cars with leather and vinyl seats. I prefer the cloth.
https://archive.is/Zk32R
Which of these posts was from “the one single person”?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34472222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34472232

I don’t think anybody was speaking Dutch. “Penis” is latin for “tail”, and fun facts are not useful for this conversation.
Yeah. This is regulatory arbitrage. It costs a lot to get certified to produce a medication (which is necessary, or else some company will cut corners and produce a contaminated drug). For drugs with small patient populations, it doesn't make sense to pay for that certification and then sell it cheaply. So the drug ends up being made by only a few manufacturers and the price stays high even though it's a generic. I don't know what a better solution is.
Hiker lost ignored calls from rescuers because he didn’t recognise number (2021)
What's really annoying is that the current generation of Intel CPUs support ECC, they just don't implement it in consumer chipsets. You can get working ECC with a W680 motherboard, but those are very expensive and availability is slim.
Classics [engineering], failure curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
Tenured? That's confusing in the context of a profit seeking corporation.
I've noticed a trend lately (though I doubt it's new) of systems/frameworks/whatever coming out promising to unseat the existing offering by being simpler, more opinionated, etc. But it turns out all that complexity was because the underlying problem is actually complex, so as the new simpler solution gains adoption it feature creeps its way back to being the same as the old.

I feel like I'm witnessing the start of that here.
Amounts of Bonds by SBF's Two Non-Parent Bail Sureties Made Public [pdf]
Yet another reason why having a black hole within the solar system is a bad idea.
There are very few 14 year old cars which will pass NY state safety inspection left in upstate NY where I live. Cars rot out from rust very fast here due to very high usage of salt to deice roads in winter.

Maybe a 14 year old California or Arizona car is a good deal but not in New York.
Like crushing the Taliban for 9/11. The Iraq invasion wasn’t a question of not knowing, it was an intentional deception to start the war they were already planning. U.S. and allied intelligence agencies had plenty of people who knew better and even the Bush administration knew the link was spotty enough that they didn’t explicitly make it, instead relying on claims about WMD and human rights which weren’t as easily disproven.
There's probably capacity to build 10,000 of them all at the same time, so it isn't really that many, especially over a decade.
Welcome to the Corolla club! I’ve had a 2009 Corolla since 2014. Aside from the expected stuff (brakes/lights/filters/oil changes/wipers/tires/battery), the only maintenance it has needed is a new exhaust connector. A couple things I love about it:

- I like to maintain my own things, and the car and parts are cheap enough that I don’t worry about screwing something up.

- Having owned it for a while, I know it’s quirks. E.g. I know if the radio starts going in and out, the battery is not charging and needs immediate attention.

- I don’t have to worry about it being stolen or getting dinged.

I planned on driving it to the ground, but I’m starting to believe that it will out live me.