skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firsly, I have multiple tens of terabytes of movies (painful to duplicate), and I watch them with their original menus in Kodi.

Secondly, a BDMV can't be turned into a single correct linear representation - for example, the Star Trek TOS discs have the ability to toggle back and forth between original and CG-remastered graphics seamlessly. As another example, I have stereoscopic 3D blu-rays; should the transcode be the left eye view, or side-by-side 3D with an ultrawide file?

Finally, transcoding necessarily sacrifices quality. Remuxing wouldn't, but Jellyfin usually refuses to stream remuxed containers and insists on transcoding to attach subtitles (their javascript web player and even app don't seem to handle the subs correctly?).

To sum up, turning a disc folder into a single file requires losing content.
European producers can deduct VAT on their intermediate business inputs, but American producers can’t deduct the sales taxes on their intermediate inputs.
Guys, just an American peasant asking a question. My mama never knew the day she was born. I'm 70 and once did a little tech work.Mama drew Social Security off my daddy's account after he died. I also thought about how Census records of say the 1920s have a blank for unknowns like my mom's.
> Not the way I see it.
I'm not willing to cite every single instance of a trend so a commenter can pick apart each one to try and dismiss it, when the problem is the trend itself, and not specific instances.

And here lies the problem. You have formed an opinion and are unable to accept counter evidence.

> I think the bigger issue is tribalism and feeling the need to defend country (and thus tribe) instead of acknowledging hey, maybe there really is a problem?

That’s an idiotic comment given I’ve listed plenty of issues with the UK already. My opening comment even stated how I’m loathed to defend the uk government. I’ve also talked about how I’ve had literal arguments with MP over stupid policies regarding information technology.

The literal one point I’m defending is that the police don’t arrest you for thought crimes / posting memes online. And the reason I’m defending the government on that one point is because it’s flat out wrong and those who claim otherwise are spouting ignorant horseshit.

> I think this is mostly a whataboutism.

Bullshit. You’re the one making comparisons and claiming the UK is the worst offender. Then when evidence is shared about how the UK isn’t you ignore it.

Are you sure it’s not yourself who’s suffering from tribalism?
> I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is that the mere notion of "a system that's actually big or complex enough to warrant using Kubernetes" is completely absurd, and communicates a high degree of complete cluelessness over the whole topic.

Do you know what's a system big enough for Kubernetes? It's a single instance of a single container. That's it. Kubernetes is a container orchestration system. You tell it to run a container, and it runs it. That's it.

See how silly it all becomes once you realize these things?
Local attitudes matter less when there's less restrictive zoning and regulations, for better and worse.
How to Torch 220B Euros
I was actually surprised to see how much .NET stuff it pulled in on the Linux install. Nothing wrong with that, just hadn't seen it before.
Exactly, and for American producers, sales tax does get applied multiple times and can’t be deducted from VAT
The banality of evil. He was just doing his job.
I heard of multiple "let's make an AI to show who to fire to increase efficiency" get canceled after inevitably the AI points towards upper management which then cans the project because they can't spin it to have themselves excluded from analysis.
AFAIK DOGE's personnel is young, and therefore probably cannot tackle the pressure from the POTUS cabinet ("you have a few days to establish everything we asked for"), hence the "Move fast and break things" effect.
Show HN: Hackyournews.com v2
A year and a half after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be neater and added support for more news sources.

HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently sees ~2k weekly unique visitors.

There were many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper dark mode, correct rendering on mobile devices, and more cogent summaries.

This rewrite is the result. gpt-4o-mini reduces the cost of summarization to an absurd degree, so it's now sustainable to keep this free service going!

Someday, I hope to use the Batch API [2] to drive down costs even further.

Enjoy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427127

[2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9197833-batch-api-faq
>The kindle I bought last year is many times more enjoyable to use than the one I bought a decade ago.

I know you're trolling, but in what way? Ebooks were always light, the only meaningful innovations have been sort of having color, getting bigger, and a stylus. Those are legitimate reasons to upgrades, everything else is software that could be updated.

>Times change.

People being in abusive relationships and thinking its good for them have existed forever. See how I didn't bring up something completely irrelevant to the conversation to make a point.
Infrastructure and prep can do a lot for cold and ice. But unless we're installing locker rooms everywhere, it's less helpful for rain and not at all helpful for sweating in the heat.
It will ensure a more rapid recovery to a safe state. This is why in principle you don't check for loop termination with "==" when ">=" or <=" will better protect against a corrupted loop counter.
As mentioned in the article, an executive editor of the Associated Press itself argues that the move is a First Amendment violation. As I wrote in a different comment:

Whenever holding press conferences in the Oval Office, the government creates a nonpublic forum [1] and invokes freedom of the press (because a news organization who is allowed to attend should be able to share what happened). The government can deny a news organization entry based on the subject of the speech (e.g. no reporting about the Gulf of Mexico/America, regardless of the name used) but cannot deny entry based on the news organization's viewpoint (e.g. thinking that Gulf of Mexico is the more appropriate name allowed, thinking that Gulf of America is the more appropriate name not allowed).

I can't reply to GP directly, but I'd like to directly address an assertion that GP made:

> The AP has no right to the Oval Office. They are not an elected entity nor have any legal standing.

The AP has no right to the Oval Office in the absolute sense, but if the government allows some news organizations (at least 1) into the Oval Office for press conferences then the criteria for allowing news organizations must not discriminate based on viewpoint. So long as AP meets the criteria that obey the First Amendment, then AP is entitled to enter the Oval Office for press conferences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_(legal)#Nonpublic_forums
You must be one that didn’t buy in the floodplains.
> How great Novell and Attachmate were as owners

This is the opposite how I and not only I remember it. Novell did save S.u.S.E. in 2005 by the highly controversial deal. And then started to slowly dissolve its internal identity within the whole company and almost succeeded. The Novell management was incompetent, trying to save it's dying business by bending what SUSE was doing. Barely survived the 2008+ crisis.

Attachmate, another legacy product company was interested in Novell due to assets and customers. That there was a business unit (SUSE) that was quite capable was merely a surprise to the new owners. They let us live and do our jobs. Which paid off because Novell died in a year or so after attempts to salvage it. The Attachmate management wanted to make money, no interest in SUSE. You can call it good management, but mainly due to the fact that the accounting was internally split from Novell and the numbers did not lie.

The secret sauce of SUSE is that it has strong foundation and longtimers that still somehow manage to keep the spirit and attract new poeople who appreciate it in the work environment.
The miracle of SUSE it's been able to survive any shitty and clueless top management it had had installed by any of the buyers. So far. Fingers crossed.
Lisp makes total sense as a shell scripting language to me.

Being able to switch back/forth without leaving the prompt is nice.
Insurance requires risk transfer but that's different from cross-subsidization. It's fine for 100 equally flood-prone houses to all pay the same insurance premiums even if only 1 of them floods in a given year. But people in a less flood-prone area, all else being equal, should be paying less for flood insurance. The alternative (aka the status quo) creates market distortions, making it artificially cheap to live in flood-prone areas and encouraging more building there.

Plenty of people would still live in those areas even if they were paying actuarially fair prices for insurance. And lots of places are safe enough from natural disasters that they're affordable to live in without cross-subsidization - in fact, eliminating cross-subsidization would make most people's cost of living go down, at the expense of a minority of people who live in very high-risk areas.
That's not a huge difference. 3% is like an average of 3 extra misses, which is probably not even that noticeable with variance. 3 pointers are not replacing 2 pointers with equal percentages, but they are creating opportunities for higher percentage 2 pointers.

> Crowding is not necessarily bad. A contested shot is interesting; an uncontested shot, not so much. Even uncontested dunks are less interesting than contested dunks.

That's because you're thinking of a really cool dunk, not a big man backing down his man for like 20 seconds and throwing up a clanker that gets rebounded into another 20 second post possession. Realistically that's what a lot of offense was like back in the day. There's just selective nostalgia for the really cool plays.
My own usage of LLMs to help me code has resulted in me learning more and producing higher quality output.

You have to use them diligently, but it's definitely possible to avoid the obvious downsides of working in this way.
We pay sales tax on business inputs as well. But unlike European producers, that tax is not deductible from from the final VAT.
> I don't really care about the standardized interface.

Then you seem to be confused, because you're saying Kubernetes but what you're actually talking about is implementing a toy container orchestrator.
I've been leaning hard on LLMs to help me write code for just over two years now. I mainly work in Python and JavaScript, which are both languages that LLMs are extremely good at, but I also use them for languages I hardly know at all like jq and Bash and AppleScript and Go.

I've published a ton of notes on this here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/ and https://simonwillison.net/series/using-llms/
With friends like these we don’t need enemies.
I believe he owns about 13% of TSLA shares as of now.

I think he his outlived his usefulness to the company (how can he actually be productive considering the things he spending his time on?).

As a shareholder I want him out. Or maybe I'll exit.
Which is fully valid video genre. But not a valid record. Spliced runs as videos show casing best what a specific scene can do is great tool to promote scene. But those should never be presented as records.

Well apart from not being completable run...
I am pretty sure that's a config option
But that evidence is not persuasive that the set of fonts that the author calls Gorton are actually derived from the lineage he presents (see the diagram captioned “The Gorton quasisuperfamily”), rather than from freehand lettering that would have been much more widely used at the time. Remember that the letterforms themselves could not qualify for legal protection in the United States. So none of the licensing agreements offered as evidence were needed to acquire the fonts. So we can conclude that they were executed to acquire the machines and the patents behind them for the purpose of introducing similar machines in a new market. The machine designs and methods of production were the hard part. The fonts were comparatively trivial to create and incorporate into a machine, whatever its design.

The author's comparison of the fonts actually argues against them being of the claimed lineage. Consider the many differences between the Taylor, Taylor & Hobson machine’s fonts and the Gorton machine’s fonts. If Gorton had a license to use the Hobson machine designs, which they did, they could have simply copied the TT&H fonts verbatim. But they clearly did not. Why not? I think it's likely that they simply preferred a different design, one closer to the letterforms that were more commonly used by draftsmen in the American market. In other words, the Gorton reference design was not the TT&H font design.

At least, that's my best guess based on the evidence presented.
Yes, it's a good point. Will work on real-world examples covering different scenarios for the next posts.
And then he bought it, fired a bunch of engineers and DID not rewrite it to prove that it wasn’t brittle.
We had a wonderful, affectionate, snuggly cat who also had a congenital defect. She only made it to a year and seven months old (having adopted her at around 8 weeks old). We lost her almost two and a half years ago, and I still cry over her memory once every couple weeks, and think about her multiple times a day.

I don't have children, but if I ever do, I am worried that my experience with this wonderful little cat will turn me into an anxious, unhealthily-overprotective mess when it comes to any children I might have.
Unfortunately, solar w/ storage isn’t cheaper. You want to look at VALCOE for LFSCOE as metrics. It doesn’t compare solar roofing with nuclear since you need more transmission, but a distributed grid seems insanely unlikely to ever happen / be practical. Moreover, storage at scale requires strip mining the ocean floor which companies are getting ready to do. That’ll be an ecological disaster which makes nuclear accidents look like peanuts.
You are right. I guess I went off past articles I’ve read from SFGate. This one is very unbiased.
cool talk, respect him making the point in 20 minutes. There's a lot of levels of applying this when programming, not just with LLM usage.
Defeatism is gross.

We can all of us individually, and all of us collectively, do better.

You are quite literally the problem.
> Better keep that pressure chamber leakproof for 1000 years

It seems highly unlikely that even 100 years from now we'll be net positive on CO2 release into the atmosphere. Renewables are a thing, and we're making significant progress.

So once we're net negative, it'll be up to us to figure out how much CO2 to release, but it seems a certainty that long before 1000 years we will no longer need to store any of the captured carbon.
How many other planets do we have the capacity to examine microfossils from? Being able to check out asteroids (qua bits of fragmented planets) for a very short time.
"The problem with the amyloid hypothesis is most likely not that it is wrong, but that it is incomplete,"

If the hypothesis is that amalyoid causes AD, then I think we've disproved that (even with your statement that it's incomplete). If I remember correctly, there are individuals who have amalyoid without developing AD, or who have had their amalyoid levels reduced without improvement. At this point, it seems that amalyoid is more of a symptom than a cause. But you are correct that the data is dirty - many studies have not tested for amalyoid itself, instead relying on clinical diagnosis, and subsequent studies are finding at 25% of mild to moderate AD may be other forms of neural degeneration. So many of the AD studies out there focusing on amalyoid reduction are garbage because many of them happened before being able to use imaging to test amalyoid levels.
Ape Escape was great, and IIRC it was the first game that went all-in on the new DualShock controllers. You couldn’t even catch a monkey unless you nailed both sticks perfectly at the same time!
Thank you for Shepherd, it’s a tremendous resource for finding something to read.
How X-Plane Works
It may be, but it's also the default behavior and .. really... makes no sense at all.
What do you mean "we?" China has not just indicated but incontrovertibly demonstrated that they do not care about carbon dioxide emission targets. They are massively ramping up their oxidative energy production. So as I see it there are two choices.

One: deindustrialize and let China control all industrial production while having massive carbon dioxide emissions or,

Two: reindustrialize and challenge China's industrial production advantage while having massive carbon dioxide emissions.

Low emissions aren't on the table. They're not a possibility. So at this point I'm deeply suspicious of anyone peddling that fantasy. They are, most likely, spreading Chinese misinformation, wittingly or unwittingly.
> I especially dont see what is gained by writing the test after.

I assume you mean versus writing it first, rather than versus not writing it at all.

I've found that TDD works well for bottom-up coding, but not so well for top-down.

With bottom up, I can write the test for a piece at the bottom, write the code to pass the test, and move on. With top-down, if I write the test first, it might be a long while before I have that top-level working, because the bottom bits don't exist yet.

When I feel it's better to write things top-down, I'll often use TDD for the bottom bits I need to write, but for the bits above that, I'll write the tests "on my way back up".
It is hard to think about Sri Lanka without recalling [0] that this is the country which recently attempted to institute a fertiliser ban. My default assumptions about their general infrastructure management are unflattering.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-d...
> But US exporters still face a tax burden that EU exporters do not.

What exports (to where) we are talking about and what is this burden? I don't exactly follow your argument here.
Why are you downplaying it? Musk and Trump wrecklessly terminated employees responsible for the maintenance and inspection of nuclear weapons. This isn't just a social media team.

The loss of institutional knowledge for managing an arsenal of nuclear weapons has serious consequences for security.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-...

> Some of the fired employees included NNSA staff who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built. These staff oversee the contractors who build nuclear weapons, and they inspect these weapons.

> It also included employees at NNSA headquarters who write requirements and guidelines for contractors who build nuclear weapons. A source told CNN they believe these individuals were fired because “no one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to he nation’s national security.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-...

> Just days before, officials in leadership had scrambled to write descriptions for the roughly 300 probationary employees at the agency who had joined the federal workforce less than two years ago.

> Managers were given just 200 characters to explain why the jobs these workers did mattered.
I'm all for informing people. A lot of people (myself included) are generally pretty ignorant.

As to traffic light systems:
I think they should be transparent, and linked to easy-to-verify information.

An example of a good food one is the UK:
They have a traffic light system for various macros. For each of the chosen macros (fat, sugar, etc...) the symbol displays the macro amount along with an associated colour.

This system is great because it is a systematic and consist visualization of an objective fact (e.g., more than 20 grams of sugar is always red). While the consumer might be influenced by the colour, it is extremely clear what the colour means and they can make up their own mind (e.g., how much fat do I want to consume?)

An example of a bad one:
Germany has a traffic light system for food too. But here it is just a colour (with no clarity as to how the colour/rating is calculated). The rating seems arbitrary and strange (for example smoked salmon gets a red rating, while a slice of pizza might get a yellow rating, etc...). The consumer has no insight into what the rating truly means and hast to either trust it, or ignore it.
> Even using the Windows volume mixer to mute Firefox doesn't stop the noise.

Seems like this is a deeper bug than FF then, no?
Humans have 7 dof but we can't get into all positions, as I've found clearly today trying to reach things for my kids in the back seat of the car.
Never, billy mitchell is a great lolcow
You can’t photograph what no longer exists…
While I wouldn’t go as far $25K vs $250K, the main difference between the $125K developer and the $250K developer is the latter was willing to memorize enough leetCode to get into BigTech.
> The most reasonable explanation after you exclude something artificially forcing life to exist on Earth, or preventing it from existing anywhere else, is that we just need to explore the universe more, and grab samples from other planets in habitable zones.

I suppose we would if we could. Distance presents a fairly big problem. With current technology just getting to the nearest known exoplanet would take about 10,000 years, one way.

What more do you think “we” should do about this, so you can sleep at night?
There's a difference between personal purpose and community purpose. I don't expect a city trash collector to consider their work to be their life's purpose, even if they do experience the work as having some purpose/value to the community.

The BS jobs hypothesis, popularized by David Graeber, is IMO quite flawed. It's a way to look at the world without having to get your mind dirty understanding how stuff actually works. Sometimes that can be a good stepping stone to asking "just why are we doing it this way?". However, the broader observation that Graeber makes (essentially: "everybody, especially the people doing them, know it is bullshit") points instead to the disconnect people experience between the work being done by <their organization> and the actual stuff that they do. No doubt there are some true BS jobs, but I think far less of them than is often supposed. You and/or the person doing them may not see why they are there (and that is a problem), but that doesn't make them BS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/comments/1imex0d/comme...
Wow. If "unit" in "unit test" does indeed mean that the test itself should be able to run independent of the other tests then maybe I can get over my avoidance of calling them "unit tests"!

I dislike that term because the most valuable tests I write are inevitably more in the shape of integration tests - tests that exercise just one function/class are probably less than 10% of the tests that I write.

So I call my tests "tests", but I get frustrated that this could be confused with manual tests, so then I call them "automated tests" but that's a bit of a mouthful and not a term many other people use.

I'd love to go back to calling them "unit tests", but I worry that most people who hear me say that will still think I'm talking about the test-a-single-unit-of-code version.
I remember seeing part of a game in about 1985. IIRC, it was the Jazz against the Knicks. Utah won, something like 86-82. The Knicks offense was laughably bad. They came down the floor, wound up standing around the perimeter of the key, all five of them, each with a defensive player in front of them. They passed the ball around that perimeter. Nobody moved; they just stood there. Eventually somebody shot.

I know it was late in the game and people were tired. The shooting percentage may have been reasonably high. I don't care. That's terrible offense. And horrifically boring.