skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plex can act as a 'head unit' and do format transform and metadata management. Then stream it to a secondary plex client. KODI does not do that. That is the one killer feature Plex has over KODI. In all ways KODI is better except in that use case. Picking data from a CIFS is basic XBMC/KODI/Plex functionality and has been in there for a long time going back to the original xbox days. Jellyfin is similar with its ability to transcode and stream that to a client. In some cases they let you stream it thru a web client (which is kinda cool).

It is a nice feature for low bandwidth applications. Say a VPN to your phone, or a friends house who has crappy internet. If I remember correctly there were a lot of clients also for TV's which have absolute rubbish CPU power and no local storage (for holding metadata). Also the centrally managed metadata is nice when you have more than one client. You can get the same effect with KODI and using a DB like mysql or mariadb. But it is sort of finicky to setup correctly.

I personally use KODI as I do not need that particular streaming feature. Also it is broken with ISO's which is one of my major use cases.
"it becomes possible to "prove" that any number is equal to any other number."

There are multiple ways to define what division by zero means. Which definition leads to this outcome? How?
> Is it working?

In my experience, HN seems okay for reading and participating in meaningful discussion. Comments that don't contribute or are inappropriate don't stay in sight for long (possibly due to the community upholding the guidelines), whereas useful discussions and references to projects tend to stay towards the top. I don't always agree with what sits at the top, but if nothing else it's civilized and reasoned.

In some respects HN has the typical issue of most attention focusing on the first page posts and most discussion being in one or two top level comments, but that's just how people engage with the content, short of randomization there's no way around that. There will always be a top comment and everything else will receive slightly more lukewarm reception and activity.
Why is the title phrased as a question? It's not like carbon footprint is a directly measured value that takes investigation to figure out where it came from, it's something that's calculated and you can just look at what went into the calculations.
The most important part is to not get people into substance abuse in the first place.

Many people start with light drugs (weed or subscription drugs) and then go to heavier stuff. If it is easy to get light drugs and easy to get heavy stuff then more people will be doing drugs. If it is legal to carry around drugs for personal use and if it is considered accepted, then more people will be using drugs.
It would be great to destroy the criminal economy. However, I fear the drug trade is too useful to the likes of the CIA to ever be abolished. Those with power who seriously try to fix the drug problem would probably be assassinated. This is why no US leaders have actually tried to end the drug war.
My childhood was in a Pentecostal church and this would randomly happen with out warning during a service - and when it did the service would run long. Normally I would get out at 12:30 so 11-12 was singing, 10-11 Sunday school and 12-12:30 at best the preaching would end but it was probably 1 in 6 where one could describe is as mass hysteria with loud singing , speaking in tongues and falling to the floor. Those would run and extra hour at least which gave very little time for play being you had to be back there for evening service. 10/10 would not recommend.
More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022

And the country is better off without them, good riddance.

This is obviously a propaganda piece for why we shouldn't have progressive taxation. Articles like this are a clear attempt at keeping the Overton window[1] on the side of regressive tax policies.

Sorry, I'm not buying it. There's no fundamental right that you should be allowed to siphon that much wealth out of the global financial system. Pretending that everyone would actually be better off if we continued to let these people lock up all the wealth is a joke.

This little shell game they're playing only works today because the global community is only just now waking up to the grift that's been taking place.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Its not clear to me what the advantage is. The regular algorithm does not have a conditional in the inner loop and runs over data in a fairly cache friendly was. It's also O(N^3). What's the benefit here?
A historic oil platform off Santa Barbara turns into a rusty ghost ship
What are you in that your local ISO layout has these issues? The Irish layouts on X and Windows don't have this issue and makes typing just about any diacritic easy, though I go a bit further and use the UnicodeExpert variant. MacOS, OTOH, has issues unless I switch to an ANSI layout.
Is that a hypothetical or your actual belief?
both of these are reasonable. if you have an `x` such that `x + n = x` implies that `n = 0`. (assuming x still has an additive inverse)
in other words you just invented modular arithmetic which is a very reasonable thing to invent.

1/0 is maybe a bit trickier and leads you to invent projective spaces.
I expect better from The Guardian to be honest
It's good to see a politician actually doing their own analysis rather than just following every fad. It's a characteristic that is sorely lacking from the US political class.
Its because the center failed to provide a path that people were satisfied with, hence there was movement away from the center into the fringes. It is entirely the center's fault that they are small. Maybe its just the end state of any sizable society.
"so a building with high rent will filter them out"

This is probably true. I mostly rented houses, but the few apartments were nightmares (and cheap!). In my experience, small to medium landlords were the worst. 1- or 2-unit owners are easier to deal with but (sometimes) slower to fix problems as they arise. "Mom and pop" rentals were by far the best experience all around.

I now own a house in a small city. I've noticed each street varies in quality and safety. Streets with densely packed multifamily homes have littered streets and more crime. Single family neighborhoods have less trash (none on mine) but are more likely to fall into disrepair than income producing property. I've also lived in the bad area of my city. I stayed there longer than anywhere. My landlord and neighbors were great. That street was special despite being densely packed multifamily homes.

There are many variables affecting livability. Though, I do wonder about the efficacy of modeling apartment/condo/street satisfaction. Pricing seems less like a filter, and more like a KPI representing maximization of some hidden variables (those affecting housing satisfaction).

Also, I wonder if a dollar value could be placed on "good neighbors".
So… anyone used Chatgpt to generate cards for Anki?
Not to diminish your point there, but globally, it is cold that tends to kill the elderly, not heat. Despite being much less newsworthy, illnesses triggered by the cold kill about ten times more than heat strokes and similar health issues from excessive heat.

Meaning that a heating outage in a cold region would have a vastly more devastating effect than an cooling outage in a warm region.
> ... because it WILL happen eventually given enough goes.

I'm not a statistician, but I don't think that's how that works. Given enough events, the likelihood of something happening goes up, but it never becomes a certainty.

Likewise when the statistical 100 year statistical storm happens, the next one is not 100 years away. It could happen the following week without violating the underlying statistics. (Of course if a 100 year storm keeps happening year after year, then the threshold for what is likely to happen once in a hundred years probably needs to be revised.)
Code can still be useful even if you can't run it. It would be easier to rewrite Google if you had the code than without.
I am not only aware of the opioid epidemic, but my family is strongly involved in rehabilitation clinic work in Europe.

My proposal is to reduce use through education, rehabilitation (including tapering/MAT), and not facilitating continued use. I also propose not using language such as "safe use". Please see the approach Portugal took in 2001 where narcotics possession was legalized but interventions such as rehabilitation were enforced — this is my proposal. The approach can be supplemented by harm reduction, but harm reduction alone is ineffective and selling it as a "safe" alternative to rehabilitation programs is malicious, as can be very evidently seen in the US.
It's interesting to understand the impact across different food types but this type of infographic is kind of misleading when you look at emissions by sector.

The whole of agriculture related emissions pales in comparison with the emissions from coal/natural gas plants or steel industry emissions.

It's ok to not eat meat for animal welfare but to spin it for emission purposes is misleading. You would have a greater impact for the environment by not using your car, not using AC in the summer, midly heating your home in the winter, stop buying trinkets from Amazon, etc.
The previous discussion was 4 months ago, but the domain's been registered since 2021-02-13
a slightly saner review is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAHBexJxrE
you’ve got that the wrong way round. tax raises reduce inflation
Nonsense. Had Germany adopted nuclear in 2020 for the Grünewende they would be done by now, and they would have cost them less then they actually spend in that time and what they will have to spend.

Even with pessimistic assumption of paying 5 billion $ per plant. If Germany had done what France did in the 70/80s they would be much better off now and for the next 100 years. And the cost per plant would be far lower once you start mass production.

If you actually did it right rather then incredibly stupidly, nuclear waste would be a resource for the future, and the idea of disposing it would be utterly ridiculous. Just as with all these idiotic disposal solution that governments like to waste money on. In typical fashion the anti nuclear people first create problems, demand that money is spend on them and then blame nuclear for those problems.

A sensible approach would be have a government fuel bank responsible for securing reserves of nuclear fuel, supplying and recycling nuclear fuel to the nations nuclear fleet. This fuel reserve centrally managed and it controls access to fuel for both commercial operates, research, ESA and so on.

Maintenance of spend fuel is not actually expensive and it places little burden on government to do, even if its for 100s of years. Its literally just a bunch of containers in a warehouse. And that could of course be supported by fees for rate payers.
You mean the meat grinder¹? You can click stuff for their reference, for that one it’s the teacher spanking the student.

¹ https://youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U&t=138s
Fusion is a high-capex form of energy. If your only niche in the market is the two windstill, dark weeks in the year you'll have a hard time recouping your investments.
Did you have a rule for choosing the topics to write about, or was that choice also part of the writing process?
I've seen dall-e being able to imagine additional parts to an existing image along with a prompt, I'm sure it's possible. But probably not with this amount of creativity.
> These days laptop PCs are unreliable across most brands I have tried and supplied with crapware and the operating system is hostile and forces stuff like OneDrive on you and begs you not to install Chrome.

That is true but Apple's OneDrive equivalent thing iCloud is the same way, they even show fake red notifications on program icons to make you sign into iCloud and use dark patterns to make you use iCloud. They don't push Safari as much but they've been stagnating it on purpose across all their products to protect their App Store revenue, which is quite the turn off.

Apple's hardware can also have problems as evidenced on here and forums but overall might be better than a cheaper laptop, just like PC laptops. Anyway my two biggest reasons for not going with a MacBook were that I think a touchscreen should be a mandatory as an option in 2023(at least for tapping on links etc. if not multitouch) and being able to play specific FPS titles in a pinch(like in a hotel while traveling) which are not available on the Mac. I was able to get an OLED HDR touchscreen running at 120hz which is gorgeous.
It’s common – you accept a reduced salary in exchange for the fringe benefit. It works particularly well for FBT-exempt employers like charities and state health departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_packaging
> Potency only means that you need a smaller quantity of a substance to attain the same effect.

Semantics, misused a term there.

> The major drugs like heroin and methamphetamine are already pretty optimal in this regard.

In a world where this was true, cutting drugs with fentanyl wouldn’t be a thing. It’s not just a cost optimization, it’s also because it gets you the best high on the block.

> The only people who care about RCs are people trying to skirt the law, and drug nerds.

“Spice”, as one example, has destroyed many communities. Legal highs and designer drugs are everywhere as of the past decade. “Bath salts” (cathinones), synthetic cannabinoids, etc.

Not exactly designer, but the isomerization process to extract delta-8 from hemp is a novel technique that’s being done underground by labs everywhere and distributed widely across America. We have no idea what’s in this stuff, even testing labs usually report XX% of unknown substances, reaction residues and cannabinoids in samples.

Research chemicals are everywhere. This arms race has touched millions.

These are real problems that affect real people.
I've avoided M series for this reason, and the more proprietary/locked down design... but also it seems like all we do with these upgrades is encourage more software bloat, especially on the browser side.

Environmentally I also dont like the push for minor increments every year across their range of products, and then forced 'obsolete' rating for perfectly working devices. I have a box full already thanks. I hope to use my current machine until it physically breaks, and then switch to open-hardware.
Origin of the template phrase: "Are we having fun yet?" is a phrase from the comic Zippy the Pinhead, which entered into the popular consciousness in... I think the 80s... without making the comic any more well known. GNU Emacs used to have a M-x yow command that would dispense a random Zippy quote, and while it was loading, it would give the message "Are we consing yet?"
What were the amazing achievements of private corporations that European governments benefitted from directly?

High quality, innovative products?
I wasn't asking about coal. That's obvious/non-controversial.

Provide a source or your own analysis for this claim:

>If the plan for energy conversion is a steam turbine, it’s never going to be economically competitive.
Australia's spot prices aren't based on the global market.

They are based on the (Australian) national energy market (NEM) which sets price based on supply and demand across South Eastern Australia (WA and NT aren't in the NEM)
I'm working on a AWS Bottlerocket remix with self-hosted capabilities and Azure/GCP support, and we're planning to release it for a ready to use opinionated CNCF stack Kubernetes distro (about 40 different tools), similar to VMWare Tanzu and RedHat's OpenShift.

We were facing a lot of controversy behind Flatcar already - there's no clear Licensing policy for their "Fully OpenSource" release. Kinvolk should've prepped at least a License matrix of what's been hacked out of CoreOS - what is actually behind their "Pro Features" and how exactly it is "Fully Open Source".

"Flatcar Linux Pro Features", in terms of "Linux Kernel Optimization', "GPU instances support" with "Accelerated Networking", are Not So Pro, and are something that everyone use on a daily basis.

So, just from pure Support Monetization perspective, it's impossible to use Flatcar Linux reliably for Free (mic drop).
AI could disrupt video-gaming
https://archive.is/JWRUF
No, they aren’t quitting coal in record time. They are just planning to and they’re far away from having achieved that.

A quick look on »Electricity Maps« proves that the article’s claim is wrong.

If there is any country in the world that achieved a coal exit in record time, it’s France with the »Messmer Plan«.
If I understand correctly, that's what the OP, and others, are claiming, that it's possible to figure out how to represent meaning by putting words next to each other, if you look for long enough, at many enough words sitting next to other words. So far this remains a matter of debate.

The objection I though you were making, with the "ball" etc, is that all these words that sit next to other words according to what the words mean, must mean something in isolation. For example, even though "ball" can be used in different contexts, it can only mean so many things, and it would never mean, say, "a cooking utensil made of aluminum where I fry my eggs each morning" no matter what other words you put it next to.

And, as Young et al (1976) have demonstrated, it is possible to move words out of their expected context for great fun and profit, but it's not clear that a word can always be moved in any context, and still make sense. I would even go so far as to say that can probably not be done, at least not without a drastic reconfiguration of all of English (where "ball" is used).

So the question is not only "what other words do we find the word 'ball' close to" but also "why do we find 'ball' next to those other words?". The latter question can't be answered just by looking at what words hang out with what other words, unless we already know what words mean on their own.

And that is, at least for me, the objection about LLMs "meaning" and "understanding" anything. No matter what text an LLM is generating, the entity that is decoding the meaning of the generating text is always a human. The LLM can't do that on its own. Because there is no mechanism that it is equipped with that could ever do that.

P.S. "words hanging out with other words" are what are known as "token collocations" in technical jargon. They are an idea as old as linguistics itself, a basal concept whose modern implementations in NLP systems are just, well, modern implementations. We still don't know how humans decode meaning from token collocations even though it's such an ancient idea. And it might even be wrong, at this point.

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Bibliography

1. Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott (1976) Big Balls. In Harry Vanda, George Young (prod), Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Albert productions - Atlantic Records, Sydney, Australia, side 2, track 2. URL: https://youtu.be/4WwJ6OVSwkM
This is the worst kind of handwave that signals complete lack of interest and understanding is energy economics.
For polynomial equations, the construction works in quite some generality, and is known as quotient ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient_ring

Given any polynomial P (e.g. x^2 + 1) over a filed F (e.g. reals) we can form: `R = F[X]/P`

This is an algebraic "set" that supports addition, substraction, multiplication and has 0,1 but not division in general. Elements are elements of F and a new symbol X that satisfies "P(X) = 0".

Examples:

R[X]/(x^2 + 1) = C
R[X]/x = R
C[X]/(x^2 + 1) = C + C.x
R[X]/1 = 0

# Properties

- If the polynomial P is invertible, i.e. has degree 0 and is not zero, then the resulting ring is zero R[X]/P = 0. This is what happens in the example x = x-1 (which corresponds to P = x - 1 - x = -1).

- If the polynomial P has degree 1 (i.e. P=aX+b), then the equation P=0 is equivalent to x=-b/a, representing an element already present in R, hence the ring R[X]/P is equal to R.

- If the polynomial P is irreducible (i.e. not a product of two proper polynomials) then the quotient R[X]/P is a field. This happens in the case R[x]/(x^2 + 1) which results in the complex numbers.

- If the polynomial P is a product of two polynomials P1,P2 which don't have common divisors, then R[X]/P = R[X]/P1 + R[X]/P2, this happens in the case that C[X]/(x^2+1), since P = x^2 + 1 factors as (x+i)*(x-i) in C. The equivalent result for integers is known as Chinese Remainder Theorem.
”Individual cards should be extremely brief, but your deck as a whole can be as repetitive as you want.”

Huh! I struggled with using Anki for pretty much this exact reason, always spent too much mental energy figuring out the “correct” number of cards for a given topic. But the author makes a good point here, if there’s too many cards on a certain topic you’ll just hit “I remember” on the repetitive cards and the algorithm will make them disappear for months - so there’s basically no cost to having “too many” flashcards!
Is a world full of doped up people a world you want to live in? It's not a world I want.
I am saying exactly this. Fixing the root problem through rehabilitation can be supplemented by harm reduction efforts. But harm reduction does not by itself eliminate harm, and should not be called "safe". It could be called "safer". A rehabilitated person is safe from drug use. One using hard narcotics through legalized means is not.

It seems like some people are very strong supporters of "safe use" though, it is difficult to argue that there is another more sustainable approach to the narcotics problem.
Don't forget that included in that $1200 number there is also the rent of the container, which covers well over that 14 days since you need time to stuff and strip the container with cargo on both sides of the ocean leg.
Someone who's tired of getting rained on, assaulted when they sleep, picked up by the cops, and not having anywhere to wash their person or clothes?
The camps just don't have there talking points yet. There was a "Pirate Wires" essay last year about the brief moment when partisans didn't know which side to take in the "Will Smith slap" thing, and how for a brief period people had their own opinions until it collapsed along party lines. It's just taking longer here.
This is amazing. I would leap at the chance to build a simple palm device with a 3D printed case, modern hardware that lasts an absolute eternity.
Cows and ruminants have been roaming the Earth for a long time. If they were a huge contribute to global warming, it would be pretty hot already. Focusing on methane emission omits the fact that grasslands absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and that a properly managed grassland actually sequesters carbon dioxide. Whereas factory farming breaks this cycle. We need to think in more nuanced ways if we’re going to solve global warming.

https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/cattle/methane-and-gra...
Do SF and other municipalities collect fees that compensate the public for these kinds of externalities? It seems absurd that companies performing driverless research can hobble public services and infrastructure without providing some form of compensation, ideally directed towards improving those services.
The real question is what else you don't know if you don't even know that...

The power series definition of the exponential function is basic mathematics, and is widely used in financial modeling. This cowboy attitude towards math is just depressing.

An alternative closely related interview question that's a favorite of mine is "please compute the monthly payment for a $200,000 mortgage over 20 years at 3% yearly interest".

You shouldn't be allowed to graduate high school without knowing how to do that, and you'd be surprised how many self-described economists can't answer it.