skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ridiculously love Jellyfin. I have found that if my Jellyfin box is IPv6 and I map a domain to that address, such as free DNS from Cloudflare, then I can access my personal media from anywhere on the internet.

What I haven’t found is a way to restrict access to known devices, such as MAC address, so that big companies don’t sue me to death. Yes, I know Jellyfin has a login prompt, but I would prefer better security beyond Jellyfin as a just in case.
Wonder how many billions would be saved if he fired himself?
Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand?
We need to add this new language to Linux kernel.
I wish those companies could be banned inside the US as well!
in simpler term: an object has position and rotation, and we're in 3D, so we need minimum 6 linearly independent parameters to be able to both point at a direction and be at a location at the same time.

Drone and helicopters has 4, and they are able to control max 4 of 6 parameters. Usually 3 positional + 1 rotational, and the rotatinal axis go first.
What’s being described in this article is separate from regular exploits, though. Hacking invalid seeds and items into your game are clearly not even speed running. It’s like riding a bike round the London Marathon and declaring victory.
I assume this was sarcasm
FSD is fantastic, not sure what the knock is here
disagree, strongly. kiwi-farms has nothing to do with hn. if kiwi-farms starts brigading and spamming/trolling on hn, it gets flagged.

> the other comments in the subthread are still indexed, visible & tend not to get moderated/flagged

indexed: please complain to google.

visible: not unless you turn on show-dead. so don't do that.

don't get moderated: they are already dead.

> I'm as much of a fan of adverbs

i mean what i said. i'm extremely tired of seeing histrionics and exaggerations, misplaced blame, etc. turned into loud, unfair, criticism toward what is probably the best moderated group i can think of.

JWZ's banner is at least recognizable as satire, and his opinions are well known. i can disagree with him, but still find it a little bit funny (and immature). but if you do the same thing (yes, with a please), then you are just exactly as mature. and if you are serious, less grounded in reality and not nearly as funny.
Maybe we need a coup already?
News to me, thanks! Looks great.
"Their boss" - I'm not sure that boss is best word here.

"did ask for it" - did he? Because from my perspective it looks more like he gave the bone for corporations so they will shut up for rust in kernel. After some time it will end up "Sorry but rust did not have enough support - maintainers left and there were issues with language - well back to C"
May I ask why you find it so troubling? I mean, what if we were the only life in the universe? Would that be bothersome? What if we weren't? Is that more bothersome? Or is merely the fact of not knowing bothersome?
> yield. Napkin maths on that makes it just require about Australia of farmland (if I remember) to offset the world's CO2 emissions.

For a year? And can you offset them again the following year by adding more the next year?
Worth noting the author's retraction of the figgie post mentioned, which he makes in the eulogy post:

"Put that way, I was (and am) convinced that my original post was arguing against a strawman . I had never actually played the kind of poker that would make a fair comparison!"
"I don't see why the supreme court couldn't rule a lot of these departments unconstitutional."

Because they are, in fact, obviously constitutional. The mechanism for eliminating them contemplated by the constitution is for congress to pass a law eliminating them.

If you disagree with my view on this, perhaps you'll be persuaded by voluminous case law over decades upholding the constitutionality of all of these Federal government agencies in face of challenges of precisely the kind you're motioning toward.
There needs to be a middle ground between spending a trillion dollars a year for this and having no level of accountability versus treating it like a failing startup
Uh uh. That 80% figure includes suburbs, exurbs, and all manner of low density residential settings where mass transit is uneconomical. So now what?
Yeah, I more or less agree about the closed loop part and the overall broader point the article was making in this context — that it may be a useful use case. I think it’s likely that process creates a lot of horseshit that passes through the process, but that might still be better than nothing for semgrep rules.

I only came down hard on that quote out of context because it felt somewhat standalone and I want to broadcast this “fluency paradox” point a bit louder because I keep running into people who really need to hear it.

I know you know what’s up.
Calling the 20-somethings who choose the MBA route and all start their career in consulting “the most ruthless business minds” is giving them wayyy too much credit.

The majority of McKinsey employees are fundamentally risk-averse kids choosing a safe brand name instead of doing anything entrepreneurial. To write books about them as if these PowerPoint jockeys are doing anything more than providing political cover for executives on a prostitution billing model is beyond funny.

I wish people would stop building the McKinsey brand by falling for their own marketing BS. Experts in business don’t need sell non-scalable human labor in hourly chunks, they create successful businesses themselves.

An addictive painkiller has product market fit by default and is possibly the easiest product to sell on the planet. You don’t need evil geniuses to get the opioid epidemic, it was an inevitability given the US model.
Those are my top two. I'm also avoiding the grocery store bagged chicken sitting under a heat lamp, hot coffee in god-knows-what lined "paper" cups, and fatty or acidic items in plastic containers. No plastic cutting boards. No polypropelyne shirts or sheets. I'm just guessing at where the plastic comes from but it makes me feel better.

But ultimately, look around the grocery store or just life - everything's got plastic in it. If there are drastic negative health consequences to plastics (and it's looking really likely that there are), what the hell do we do about it? We've almost certainly committed too far to plastics to fix it on any meaningful scale.
Jellyfin is awesome. I started to set up Plex server, then realized I have to have an account on some centralized service to access my own server?? Instant no-go, for me. Using Kodi as a client, almost problem-free. Super cool!
You could use TailScale or Zerotier, join all your devices to a private subnet, then use UFW on the Jellyfin server to deny all connections except those from your private subnet. Then all your devices in your Tailscale/Zerotier account can access one another from anywhere. Also works for shared folders in Windows, remote desktop, SSH, etc.. It's easy enough so that most enthusiasts can handle it without being 100% proficient in a Linux shell, VPNs, or firewalls. Should be lots of guides available with these ingredients.
same and 100% sure can do it for another 25+ if I wanted to work that long
The thing that drives me nuts about these threads is that people vastly overestimate their ability to write code that isn't broken. I distrust myself, and therefore I write basic unit tests which validate the code I've written to prove that I haven't screwed up.

Such unit tests are quick to write and don't change frequently because they run against low-level building blocks — so they are not a major maintenance burden. The ROI on this kind of testing is very high.

I don't like being told by Dodds and these other unit-test haters that I shouldn't be doing this. In my experience, organizations suffer much more when developers eschew such tests, being quite naturally overly optimistic about the reliability of their work.

Writing low-level unit tests doesn't prevent you from writing integration or end-to-end tests, and those are important too. I'm not here to devalue higher-level testing, and I'd appreciate it if advocates for higher-level testing likewise didn't go out of their way to devalue unit tests.
The problem isn't that they don't know COBOL. The problem is they're not asking questions about things they don't understand. That's very dangerous in legacy code environments.
Science needs reason to be trusted (2017)
Sabine Hossenfelder: We now live in the grip of post-factualism would seem naturally repellent to most physicists. But in championing theory without demanding empirical evidence, we're guilty of ignoring the facts ourselves.

Original paper URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4079

Accessible URL: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5o31k2jovu4nmyy219tzh/nphys40...

YouTube Video by the Author: https://youtu.be/shFUDPqVmTg
How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State
> We are not confined to Earth.

A couple of humans can go to space in that they can go up for short stints. The rest of us are confined to earth for the foreseeable future. Even if we weren’t, I’d like the place kept nice.
> This is at best specious reasoning, and to me reflects that the blogger completely misses the point of having tests.

I mean, yeah. Most devs don't understand the point. It turns into a check-boxing exercise. And most devs are vaguely smart and can figure out how to do a check-boxing exercise with minimal effort while evading the point of doing it.

Relying on people who don't care enough to write good code to care enough to write good tests has a certain irony to it.

> To start off, there is no such thing as a false positive test. Your tests track invariants, specially those which other components depend on. The whole point of having these tests is to have a way to automatically check for them each and every single time we touch the code, so that the tests warn us that a change we are doing will cause the application to fail.

I'll push back on this. I'm a veteran of a codebase where the tests broke all the time with tons of false positives. This was mostly because of over-mocking, and an abundance of assert X called with Y and Z tests. Even pure functions were mocked.

Every time I re-wrote a function implementation, even if it was a pure function and produced the same results, it would break tens of tests. Bonus points if the implementation of the thing that was mocked out had changed since the last time someone reviewed the tests and the way it was calling the function didn't do what the test assumed anymore.
Don't miss the interactive demo about 7/8 of the way down the page ("TYPE SOMETHING"). Really clever design.
Problem is that from what I've read, the system firmware is embedded in a module that also serves as WiFi. There is a chance that the firmware could be hacked to enable WPA2, but probably not WPA3.
It may show up on first login. It should auto detect the server and offer that as an option to click on.
First you need to clear, plough, seed, and ... much harder, water, an "Australia worth of farmland".

Every year.

That's a lot of transport energy, a great deal of fertilizer, and a continent's worth of liquid gold.

Don't forget the additional area required to offset the energy expenses of that annum's worth of additional agriculture.
You're almost certainly right.
This reflexive cynicism is anti-science, because what you claim is not what's happening here. The authors have a sensible causal hypothesis, which is supported by an empirical correlation. A lot of the value seems to be the hard work they did collecting years of urban rat data from various different countries.

Individually, sensible causal hypotheses and correlations aren't worth very much. But when they align and the hypotheses are supported by additional evidence, that's usually a good indication of real causality.
I would agree with you but SDA is very picky with what they will accept as evidence against a video, since the changing inventory doesn't affect anything it could have been a mistake in replicating the segments when optimizing the run, but would not actually have affected things. In the end it was a combination of the inability to reproduce the level with item drops and the impossible end fight that got them to decide to pull the record.
Was going to reply indignantly that it's hard to google rag and get that answer when I read your comment. Then I did, and it was the first result.

Apologies!
The argument is not that BMW doesn't pay corporate tax. The issue is that BMW gets a VAT refund on exports, while Ford does not get equivalent tax relief.

Remember that the sales tax applies only at the point of sale, while VAT is applied at every stage of production but refunded for exports. This is what I have been saying all along.

Even though BMW still pays German corporate tax, the tax on exports is removed via VAT refunds.

The real solution is that the US needs export tax relief to offset corporate tax on exported goods. Trump’s tariffs do not fix this - it is just a temporary fix to the trade imbalance. A global corporate tax agreement does not solve this issue either as that is not the root of the issue.

Ireland is a great example because it is corporate friendly and has lower tax rates plus a VAT system. Dell (Ireland) can export tax free while Apple cannot. So Apple has to absorb the full corporate tax burden. Granted both are PC makers but sort of a different class or consumer target. But you get what I am saying.
>A Ford car exported from the US to Germany must be priced after paying US corporate tax (21% federal + state taxes)

>A BMW exported from Germany to the US gets a full VAT refund (~19% in Germany), making it tax-free on export

Does US tax exports on turnover instead of income now? Does BMW not pay corporate income taxes? Are you being dense on purpose?
Belief in free speech and cutting taxpayer funding of activists is now ‘toxic’?

You can donate your own money voluntarily to UNWRA via their website.
I'm surprised your doctor didn't warn you about that. Growing up, I knew about benzos not from anyone taking it as prescribed, but as a recreational drug
(2011) Full title: Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand?: Adaptive Emotion Regulation in Midlife and Late Life (the second part seems more important to the context of the paper)
It was always strange to me that scientists (people that are expected to be rigorous in their experimentation and analysis) would not include history in their analysis.

However, the Latin root of the word "science" is about cutting or taking something apart and zooming in. Perhaps another word is needed to describe the process of putting whatever is scientifically discovered within a larger context to account for so many variables that are ignored during the scientific process.

I personally suspect that all the biomarker stuff are really just the biochemical remnants of processes that begin at the sociocultural level.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you haven't been paying any attention to ongoing pilot projects in europe studying seeding ag land with basalt fines as a possible mitigation strategy. Far from being uninformed I was merely trying to extend to you the benefit of the doubt inasmuch as I assumed nobody would credibly believe that fracking could produce meaningful amounts of surface area compared to powdered fines. Clearly I was mistaken, there are those among us that confuse make work for drill crews with actual progress. Carry on then.
Yeah for quite a while I was using an old ThinkPad as a Valheim server lol, maybe not the most power-efficient, but not that bad either!
Hot take:

C is simple language

Rust is lojban.

Trying to convince people who like C to Rust was bad idea.
besides 7-footers chucking 3’s what “skills” do these new nba players have? there are maybe 10 that have any skills, the rest can shoot and that’s about fucking it.

90% of today’s players would play in D league two decades ago
This feels like it should be a Reddit post. We've all got opinions. We all write READMEs.

Is it just me, or is this kind of stuff getting old?
Just got someone on LinkedIn asking to connect from one of these national labs with their status set to Looking for Work. Had a sinking feeling, saw the story online, looked for the articles here, didn't see any, then searched and found they were all (like the current one) flagged and hidden.
How so? You don't pay TurboTax per regulation. You pay them a flat fee to file your taxes.

I might buy that line of thinking for a corporation but the direct file program was about individuals. Elon gleefully tweeted about how that had been deleted. That's a direct give away to TurboTax and H&R Block.
I hope this kind of thing can shoot up the priority queue! Battery-stealing and generally janky behavior is likely the main reason folks stop using a piece of software.

Thanks for your work, and for talking about the issue on a public forum! It's so critically important that Firefox maintains/increases relevancy. I'm sure it's unbelieveably difficult work given the resources behind Chromium & Blink.
I tried Kodi a bunch of times. Nobody else in my house would/could use it. Half the time I’d end up stuck in some weird modal menu I couldn’t get out of, so I can hardly blame them. Its ui is really weird.

Jellyfin fixed that. Other people in my house use it easily, a friend uses the web ui over Tailscale, and my messing-with-tech versus watching-things ratio is finally looking good.
London Micro Grants
> What I'm saying is that there are many "concrete instantiations" of drafting lettering style, that all look basically the same, because they all came from the same source, and Gorton is just one of them.

Open a couple of old drafting lettering guides (e.g. ones linked in sibling comments or TFA), and look closely. They'll obviously have a similar overall vibe, but there'll be tons of variations - differently shaped 3/4/7, where the curves start and stop on letters like CJGS569, whether the various corners are pointed or rounded or flattened, etc.

If your premise above is true, then we'd expect to see similar sorts of variations in the various fonts derived from drafting style, and TFA's entire point is that the author has collected hundreds of cases where we don't. Check his photos - they show the same font with the same idiosyncrasies, the off-balance G, two flattened points on the 4, the slightly asymmetric 8, etc. TFA is about the ubiquity of that specific set of letter shapes (modulo some variations that he discusses), not just of lettering that's generally in the drafting style.

(Also: in the best of faith and not meant as shade, you might want to look up "ad-hominem".)
(2017) Discussion the author's recent video (27 points, 8 hours ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060496
If you want to use hardware acceleration in Emby you have to pay for "Emby Premiere". Jellyfin, not having tiered versions, provides this for free.

This is obviously useful in general, but i rely on it to run a media server on my low-end minipc with Intel Quick Sync.
How many music files can it handle? I’ve got a very large collection of mp3s and flac and many of the similar programs I have tried have choked trying to handle the size of the collection.
I want to agree, but seems to me a lot of people keep buying into the next hype, (or ignoring fundamentals, and focusing on derivatives when it comes to stocks. I mean hell go look at CVNA). Maybe that will change soon. In any case, I was just implying that if people really wanted to boycott Elon, they shouldn't just focus on the company's products, but boycott the stock.
That is non-science to be trusted, part of the scientific method is to question everything. Don't trust it until it can be peer-reviewed; even then, you can question the peer review. Scientific theories can only be beaten by better science.
The best line: “There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.”

Going way out on a limb here, but perhaps the monkey who disrupted equipment carrying enough power to mess up the entire country was most likely charred into an unrecognizable state. But hey, maybe it got lucky!
> If the evaluation involves Nixpkgs, for example, Nix needs to copy Nixpkgs into the Nix store, which is many MB.

Only if you use flakes (and this behavior is a good reason to not use them).
Well, I guess it’s an official act. :-/

The reason is probably to have runway to deport people before cases can be heard.
I tested it and it turns out LLMs can follow commands such as "Port the following Python code to COBOL", although it's certainly harder to validate the output is correct.
She seems to have done this as a political statement on gender, which I personally support on its face but I do hope this doesn't have an adverse impact on students who once relied on her videos. She used to offer her videos as torrent downloads for easy teacher access -- I wish she'd left her website up to have the videos still accessible to those in need of them off of YouTube.

Other maths YouTubers will take her place and already have as she has not been that active in recent years anyway.

That being said, one thing is that I'm certain of is that she did not remove her videos due to online harassment, because this is something she's spoken about many times before. In her video "Feeling sad about tragedy" (the video I'm most mourning from this recent purge) she spoke about this topic over a visual of scrolling through a Gmail search of "marry me", showing off 100s of incels who had messaged her via the comments section inappropriately. I don't want to paraphrase everything she said, as this video is likely in the Internet Archive for you to see, but the quote that has stuck with me all these years is "Why would I be worried about what I get on the internet as Vi Hart when it's nothing compared to what I get in real life as me?" She also had a video about comments specifically, "Vi Hart's guide to comments", where she spoke about types of online comment abuse and the reasons not to respond to any of it. She ends by saying "I, Vi Hart, am... not scared at all."
Does that company still exist? The engineering culture seems asinine.
E-waste, monetary waste (all this work in a good product-- only to be actively destroyed so that you have to buy a new one!), customer rights (it wouldn't be legal for someone to break your item with a hammer, so why with code?), and also just generally monopolistic anti-competitive market manipulation (this wouldn't fly in any competitive sector!)

We, as consumers, have a right to be mad about this stuff... this is why we have the Consumer Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
I recently learned of a mechanical watch that tracks the current week number on one of its outer rings. It's expensive.

https://www.patek.com/en/collection/complications/5212A-001
No need to check. It isn't.
I love this concept of taking a game, making one rule change, and suddenly the game has a whole new feeling to it.

This may be old news for some but I just discovered this rule that makes tic tac toe incredibly fun to play with my kids: only the last three moves of each player stay on the board.
>holding the keys to your library

but it's still on my hard drive. if i can't log in to plex for some reason, i'll install jellyfin. or mount it as a network drive and play the files with VLC. it's not like they're locking away my content behind their authentication, all they're locking away behind that auth is my ability to access my media through plex.
Cloudflare Tunnel can be authenticated via other means like JWT, but that is definitely a non-starter since the apps don't support it. Tailscale would definitely be better.
> Chromecast support is flaky. Most of the time when I cast from my Android phone, the app immediately "forgets" that there's something playing back on the Chromecast (even though it's still connected to it), so I can't control playback at all. It's also hit or miss if the Chromecast will successfully play the media if Jellyfin decides it needs to transcode it.

This might be more the Chromecast's fault as I've had a similar experience with Plex.