skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that sounds bad, I must admit Plex has been chasing “the wrong things” compared to what I want a Plex instance for.

I have streaming services for content I want to rent. I don’t need Plex for that.

I use Plex because it’s currently the best way to stream and organise content I own and have curated. But they’ve completed ignored that use-case for 5+ years now. It’s frustrating.

Jellyfin is still not quite there in the “it just works” department, but if it does, I have no doubt what’s going to replace my Plex instance.

Being open-source it will hopefully not pushed to weird commercial ventures and use-cases not actually wanted by its users.
It only went 2,599.7 miles, though? By my math that's 91 mpg. They gave up a lot of efficiency to carry around so much fuel.
[dupe]

4th time in days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487211
Agree, for the solo special contractor rate that is quite plausible.
> the whole FB C++ build experience was fairly primitive and even worse for iOS/Android

Flatly untrue, on iOS much of the infrastructure was well ahead of what anyone else had aside from Google. It worked so well that a tooling team responsible for upgrading to a new version of Xcode soon after its released declared victory and took credit for the compiler upgrade, as this had been an issue in past years.

They hadn't realized that a compiler team had been quietly running their builds company-wide for nearly two years and fixing compiler bugs on the bleeding edge of clang/llvm the whole time, so by the time the compiler was branched for Xcode and released from Apple, the fixes were already complete, open-sourced, and merged fully upstream.
K-Sortable is a great concept; having weakly sorted keys solves a bunch of use-cases. I really like the idea of a typed, condensed string representation. However I wonder if an unintended side affect of UUID V7 is going to be a bunch of security problems.

People aren’t meant to use uuids as tokens, and they aren’t supposed to use PKs from a DB for this either - but they do. Because UUID v4 is basically crypto random, I think we’ve been getting away with a bunch of security weaknesses that would otherwise be exploited.

With UUID v7 we are back to 32bits of actually random data. It’s going to require some good educating to teach devs that uuids are guessable.

[edit] Looks like I am off base with the guess-ability of the V7 UUID, as the draft recommends CSPRNG for the random bits, and the amount of entropy is at least 74 bits and it is specifically designed to be “unguessable”. It does say “UUID v4” for anything security related, but perhaps that is simply in regard to the time stamp?
On the flip side, I recently visited a local tourist attraction, where a visitor asked me to take a photo for him - and then promptly had to spend 2 minutes deleting files on his phone because he’d literally run out of storage space and his phone wouldn’t let him take another photo. Bit of an awkward moment!
The last case could be covered by the `dir` pseudo-class.

.button-icon:dir(rtl) {
transform: scaleX(-1);
}

However, it's not yet supported in Chromium browsers, so for now the attribute selector is as close as you can get.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:dir
IANAL, but I’m married to a partner in biglaw. Clients routinely refuse to pay for work they perceive (rightly or wrongly) to have been done inefficiently or unnecessarily. For instance, this past week, my wife had an associate who took an absurdly long time to research and write a draft of a brief, and almost all that time will be getting written off by the firm because the client won’t pay for it. Every large client is sifting those bills with a fine-tooth comb to determine what they won’t pay, and the firm isn’t going to risk future business for the sake of dickering over an associate’s hours. So even if it was true in the past that the billable hour incentivized inefficient work, it seems that clients have figured out how to even up the scales for the most part.
I don't know the percentage, but an enormous number of Plex users aren't pirates.
Well, then either it will empower the "little guy" to do more (more your example) , or empower big business to capture more big business (more my example). Wanna guess which one I'm betting on?
We're talking about a bunch of layers of fibers, and woven cloth impregnated in epoxy. It's a pretty messy, irregular thing with voids, gaps, broken fibers, etc. even if you lay it up robotically (as they did).

The modeling they did assumes a perfect material, and then adds some arbitrary factor of safety that will hopefully account for imperfections. It probably would have been fine if only used for one dive, but not after a substantial number of fibers had snapped as the hull flexed across numerous dives.
I migrated to systemd, wholesale.

You have piqued my interest and I will spin up a VM at work and have another look at the state of the art on Gentoo.

I absolutely loved it back in the day. Every few months or so a major change would arrive and make life better. Sets - @world etc - smashing. User patching - drop a patch in a suitable directory and effectively you could fix snags yourself without having to write your own ebuild. Do your own ebuilds - again drop your override into the right directory and your personal ebuild is seamlessly part of the distro.

No doubt much more has happened in the roughly five years when I have used it in anger. Ironically enough I have two systems at work that do run Gentoo but are woefully "legacy". Today I emerged a couple of packages to fix something on one of them and it is still hanging on in there. It is quite a delicate dance on a rather crucial system. I will get rid of it eventually but one step at a time 8)
Compliance is a completely different conversation.

In the Cloudflare Workers platform, we have a number of features to control "jurisdictions" where compute runs or where data is stored. These are meant for compliance, not for performance. Our goal is that no one has to think about regions for performance reasons, but certainly compliance issues are not going to go away -- in fact, they are getting more onerous over time. So features to control jurisdiction are likely to expand.

(I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
Builds are unbelievable slow ...
Bingo, the website and api itself is hosted on Fly.io at least.

~ ipinfo upvpn.app

- IP 213.188.207.130

- Anycast true

- City Chicago

- Region Illinois

- Country United States (US)

- Currency USD ($)

- Location 41.8500,-87.6500

- Organization AS40509 Fly.io, Inc.

- Postal 60666

- Timezone America/Chicago
There are two types of game developers: those who spend their time making tools to make games and those who spend their time making games. So really there is only one type of game developer.
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The NABU PC
I open-sourced my schoolwork
You can get elected on just home owner votes so just ignore or inflame the problem and fuck everyone without a home
I don't understand why Reddit doesn't insert affiliate ads on sub side bars. Or ad more aggressive ads on porn subs.
Dutch human rights body: ASML may follow US export rules when hiring
You really need to watch the documentary on Cannonball Run - its fascinatingly full of historic tidbits that you didn't know that you knew, and those you didnt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7erU_DOfE
Best hedge funds write their own software so should VFX studios. If you are using the same tools as guys from Poland you can not expect to compete on anything but project management skills and price
Thanks, can I use this like a regular personal VPN - hook up my phones, machines and route through it?
Jellyfin is nice. It doesn't work great though. I've had and have way too many issues with it.

I run it next to Plex to keep an eye on how it develops. I still have issues with pretty much all clients, from losing server connection information, to jankiness on changing users, or subtitles just not rendering properly, crazy high CPU usage for certain transcodes, etc.

Plex just works most of the time. Clients are better (even though the thing about them pushing crappy streaming and live tv stuff bothers me a little), subtitles mostly just work, rendering is ok and most video formats work well on most clients, and so on.

I want to like Jellyfin. I have high hopes that one day it will be great and I won't want Plex anymore. That day is not here yet.
CSS has a feature creep that makes it harder and harder to write a new browser from scratch
Do you think any of that is because they hadn't paid the pain of failing to scale? I probably spend way too much time thinking about how things I build will work when I get to the "limits" of how much data I will store.

(I'm not suggesting that's the case. Just asking.)
If you read the article this is precisely what many of the architects they interviewed say.
X1 Sold for $95M – Challenges of Operating a Credit Card Portfolio
I feel you! Just had to redeploy mine on another free hosting service.
I encourage you to read the rest of the discussion.
Are you kidding me? There's been so much housing development in Eastern MA in the last 5 years, everywhere I go in Boston, Medford, Malden, Somerville, Cambridge, Wakefield, Arlington and Revere (just to name a handful) have dozens and dozens of those 4-over-1 apartment buildings going up with retail/business in the ground floor and apartments upstairs. They are tearing down old businesses, gas stations and even houses to do this.

Go to Revere beach for example and there are literally 5 or 6 new very large apartment buildings within the 1st 1/2 mile of the beach. East Boston, there's is a massive (10K units) housing development going in at Suffolk downs (and there are a ton of 4-over-1's in the neighborhoods nearby).

I don't think that many single family homes are being built inside of Rt 128, but I think that's an ROI thing. If you have a acre of land are you going to build 2-3 houses (zoning permitting) that maybe will sell for $1M each, or are you going to build 20+ units that sell for $600-800K or more.
The mental gymnastics is believing little green men, capable of sidesteping special relativity, travel X lightyears just to fly around San Diego and occasionally crash somewhere in the desert.
Chris is an absolute grifter - I read his book on web 3 and was so underwhelmed by his depth of thought.

Better to ignore folks who have no experience in building cutting edge product - he's just a average philosopher turned VC because it pays more.
Yes, people are purists. If something emits a gram of CO2, they think it's dirty, even if it saves one kilogram.

For example, if we could switch overnight all passenger cars in the US to be fully electric, we'd save about 375 megatons of CO2-e [1]. Of course, we can't do that, but we could probably be able to do it in 20 years. Or 30.

But if we could switch overnight all the coal power plants to run on natural gas, we'd save about 525 megatons of CO2-e [2] (the calculation is: 919 MT currently produced by coal times times 0.97/2.26 = 394 MT if we switch to gas, for a saving of 525 MT). Again, we can't switch overnight, but we can easily do it in 10 years; we are doing it, because coal is inefficient compared to gas.

But how many people would think that it's more worth switching from coal to natgas than switching from gasoline cars to battery cars?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1235091/us-passenger-car...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
We just upped the price to $4.99: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2080880/Farmhand_Go/

Thanks for the suggestion! I don't expect to start making significant money with this change, but it will be an interesting learning opportunity if nothing else.

I'll update this thread if we see a meaningful change in sales! :)
That does sound pretty sketchy... but from what I've heard, acryrlic should start to fracture in a way that makes it opaque before it catastrophically fails.
> Nobody prioritizes performance anymore unless for the critical cases where it matters (video games, transcoding video, and the like). What people (companies) prioritize is developer time. For example: you might not want to use Rust because its steep learning curve means you’ll spend more time learning than delivering, or its higher compiler times mean that you’ll spend more time waiting for the compiler than shipping debugging production. Or another example: you might not want to develop native apps because that means “duplicate work”, so you reach out for a cross-platform web framework. That is, Electron.

Small but important disagreement IME: what companies prioritize is time to market which is often the same as developer time but importantly different in one key way: it means it's no longer an issue of "lazy developers" but it's a market question of "what will users tolerate."

I don't say that just to shift blame, but because it's really key to understanding what's going on - as the article notes, performance "where it matters" has gotten better and better over time.

We also have a few other improvements in the last two decades that have made things like "app startup time" less important for the market: OSes that don't need to be restarted every day, and enough RAM (and good enough memory management) to manage running a ton of open apps/windows/tabs without manually quitting and re-opening apps all the time.

Would you pay more for a Notepad that opened in 0.1s instead of 2.0s or whatever? Would you give up other features? Certainly a lot of people on HN likely would - and many probably already are running Linux (hell, I am on one of my machines as a daily driver) which hasn't had the same "ship features fast!!" pressures.

Maybe one year Apple will do another Snow Leopard, or MS will do something similar - https://www.macworld.com/article/191006/snowleopard-3.html - but right now most folks I know are enjoying the features, even the ones that we power users often find superfluous or downright annoying.
> However, I do have a project out in the public now. It ships with the base system in FreeBSD and also ships with Mac OSX. It is a command-line tool that lots of people may use in bash scripts.
Is that widespread enough?
Also, one reason people adopted mine over the GNU alternative is speed.

Which one is that?
What if Redhat doesn't commit patches to Centos steam on time, but backports their internal RHEL branches? What if Oracle doesn't backport on time? In that case, Almalinux has to fix their own branch with their patches, thereby diverging from 1 to 1 RHEL. This diverged AlmaLinux is CloudLinux. No more 1:1 binary compatibility with RHEL. So, Cloudlinux leads its own life, with its own patches for any CVEs, etc.
Phabricator w/ "arc & jf" were my bae. Wish they would fully open source all of it or expose a public version of it to compete against GitHub.
The scientific vision, leadership, and work was done by other folks. Emad saw the opportunity but primarily contributed cash and connections, which in the west means he gets to control everything. As a result, he is currently setting a tragic quantity of finite resources on fire (not the least of which is time and human capital, and in a geopolitically important field).

The western world desperately needs a way to do resource allocation that is parallel to and augments financial markets. History did not end, and the "joker with the most cash is dictator of the org" model has become perhaps the largest existential threat to the western world.
Hopefully AI can learn the language and make meaningful discoveries.
That is NOT how burden of proof works
Bike tank? bike without wheels?
I don't know where you get the idea that life is sacred, but that hasn't been my experience. I also wonder if maybe there's a lesson you can take from learning how despised these men are in much of the world.
In the film industry everyone knows they're being taken advantage of, it's very explicitly discussed at the lowest ranks of production. It's just that it's the only entrance to the field if you aren't wealthy or heavily connected. You have to suffer until you build your network and credits enough to pull yourself up. There's little to no delusion, just embracing the suck.
> Now a dissident is targeted. Their phone is sent a special OS hotfix

You're moving the goalposts. What you originally said, which I objected to, was "Apple can remotely execute any code they want on your phone at any time."

In other words, Apple can remotely execute any code they want on my phone and your phone and everyone's phone now.
why is it important to me as a user, that you provision servers on demand ?
> This is a push from Congress to force programs into the open that are secretly capturing Russian/Chinese UAVs right?

No. The USA has spent the last several decades putting most of its military budget into aircraft carriers, which will all be sunk within the first 24 hours of any conflict with China. This is just a last ditch effort to try to trick China into thinking we might have some kind of deterrent.
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2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated from a Barn in Massachuse' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36507423 - 6 hours ago (1 comment)

eBay link to seller:

https://www.ebay.com/usr/pellmill-llc
I didn't know what Construct was so I went to the homepage for clues. That intro spinning cube demo runs at a solid 4 fps with graphical glitches on a not exactly slow phone (Pixel 7), give or take, and is a quite terrible introduction for a "Cutting-edge technology that runs right inside your browser like magic."

Then again the entire section on "game engine performance matters" only compares the performance of "JavaScript" (V8? Safari? Who knows!) vs. Game Maker Language and doesn't at any point compare anything about the performance of the actual game engine.

But it is cool that they're switching to WebGPU. Should make native app ports more viable to drastically improve performance and resource utilization
What else do people even use Plex for?
That was a great podcast, and the entirety of Kean's journalistic research and integrity basically amounts to "I trust Grusch because he seems like a decent guy and I've been told he's trustworthy. But yeah, he's never seen any UFO, just reports and heard people talk about them, but since I trust him, I implicitly trust their words as well."

I love how Ezra asks her obvious questions about her research like "how is it possible the Pentagon approves of people talking about UFO retrieval if it is such a close-guarded secret?" and she says "good question! I'm not entirely sure!". Seriously? You haven't asked yourself that question before?

This entire UFO saga comes from people with X-files' "I want to believe" poster in their office, and they don't let confirmation bias stop them.
I really enjoy the art of Matt Garstka (drummer of Animals As Leaders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFnbgqHmjQ

Also Demetori (Touhou) is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po69XUGd2v0
The monkey gets 160+mpg, it would be difficult to improve much on that. Certainly not going to get a 2x multiple of it for cheaper than you can increase the fuel tank by an order of magnitude.
That's a really good point. It could be claimed that you must have known of the possibility and that you support it, etc
Yes. It is a different world than ours obviously, but it warned of a myriad of horrors, most of which have already been exceeded in my view. That's my genuine viewpoint.

For example, one of the most chilling aspects was the telescreen to me. The horror of telescreens was that someone could maybe be watching, even in your own home. Quote: "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment". Now this has been exceeded by technological mass surveillance - basically we ARE being watched nonstop. A panopticon effect is replaced by a robot sitting and staring 24/7. Everything I say is stored forever; further, machine learning can effectively filter through all of our civilisation's data and, even far in the future when attitudes change, red flag anything I say which is deemed unacceptable. Pegasus malware can turn my smartphone into a listening and viewing device at any time. I can barely even use cash in my country anymore, so this is extending to all purchases. This is BEYOND what Orwell could envision. It is shocking that people have somehow come to accept and normalise this feeling of being watched.

I could go on and refer to hundreds of similar aspects.
> There's a lot of overhead introduced by adding a blockchain—extra development time, extra code to maintain, extra CPU work (even with PoS). In order to persuade a technical audience to use your tool, you have to explain what value all that complexity is bringing!

Agreed that there is a lot of overhead introduced, but that is for the development of the platform and network of Gitopia. For the end user the workflows remain almost the same for collaboration.

> Put another way: I can have a distributed, censorship-resistant VCS by self-hosting Forgejo and mirroring repos that I like and want to help keep online. If a tool like Foregjo could encode the issue tracker and other meta information inside the .git folder, it could even make those aspects distributed, without all the complexity inherent in a blockchain. Given that, what does blockchain bring to the table?

I understand that this would work for technically inclined users but not for everyone who want to contribute to open source. Along with this the blockchain layer layer offers immutable, transparent and tamper proof versioning of code along with the collaboration meta and augments the current collaboration flow. Along with this it enables us to provide a novel means to incentivize open-source contributions along with fostering a more decentralized approach for governance (even for projects), every token holder could have a say in the decision making, reducing the risk of undue influence by a single party, hence eliminating centralized control.

I will also add that we have tried to keep the flow of collaboration on Gitopia as intuitive as possible for the developer hence adding no additional complexity for the end user if they don't want it. But for some projects this might be useful or necessary to use the web3 workflows along with the collaboration features on Gitopia.
They machine a wide ledge on the titanium, so the window is pushed into the groove/sill under pressure, basically a large window that is covering a smaller hole that it can't fit through. For all practical purposes, it justs sits on there and the pressure holds it on. It would also have bolts and/or sealant to keep it in place when not diving.
In pretty much any area, modernization is all about moving the emphasis from materials and workmanship to design and specification.

I think some of the low quality materials available with globalization might be because other places understand how to use those materials better than we do, we're still trying to use the old mindset with the new materials.

We might not be able to do kit houses, but I think it's pretty cool that we don't chop old growth anymore, and we use less material for most things, and it all still generally works except when it's designed to fail or there's extreme corner cutting.
They could get things done faster, they probably just don't know
https://imgflip.com/i/7qwwn2
FWIW you don’t need a bathyscape to experiment with this. When Scuba diving in temperate locations (like Tobermory, Ontario), people with 7mm wet suits and extra vests or jackets experience this as they descend: The neoprene compresses, and if you don’t add small amounts of buoyancy to your BCD, you’ll start to free-fall.
Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
Next June!