skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's great that it's free and open source so it's available to as many people as possible.

I don't really care about the free part though. If I could pay for Jellyfin and it would be better, I would happily do it. I pay for Infuse so I have something usable on Apple TV even though Jellyfin itself is free. I don't care if other people don't pay for it.

I would rather pool various other people's money who have the same perspective as me to allow one of the Jellyfin contributors to prioritize and perform changes in the project that I and others value, which raises the boat for all. There's no world in which I am going to learn how to contribute to Jellyfin to fix something fundamental about the Jellyfin architecture, for example. It would take years to even get buy-in from the core contributors to have that access. Maybe I could spend a few months and clean up minor UI things or something, but what's the good of that?

I see this take a lot, where a project being free / OSS means that no one should have an opinion on it or that if they don't like something, they should fix it themselves. That's literally what money is for, so I can transfer wealth for some benefit to someone who is better at something than I am, so I can spend my time doing things I'm good at. Nothing about that prevents Jellyfin from remaining FOSS but at the same time, making improvements and receiving and prioritizing community feedback.
25+ years getting paid money to write software.
Nobody knew it was fake before the investigation started.

The investigation didn't even start because they were suspicious. The team wanted to create a TAS and decided to recreate Groobo as a starting point, then optimise from there. First step of making a TAS was to bruteforce the map generation seed.

And they quickly encountered issues, and it quickly devolved into an investigation of just how "cheated" it was. Partly because for their TAS usecase, they didn't really care if the run was played on multiple versions, as long as it was still a single save file with a single map seed. But I assume it was mostly curiosity at that point.

Groobo's defence was didn't come until near the end of the investigation, and was more or less: "Yes, I did that. But it was all disclosed to the SDA judges, and they allowed it under the rules of that time".
Unfortunately it's looks as if Cyber Squirrel 1* hasn't been updated since 2019.

This disruption would be one of the more successful operations.

*https://cybersquirrel1.com/
Do you mean that "Before [economic] growth became a thing, [life] was a zero sum game?". I'm genuinely unsure what you mean by that. By any measure, the history of life on earth has seen many ups and downs in biodiversity. So the flourishing of one species often coincided with the flourishing of many other related species. A well-known example would be various pollinating insects and birds and the flowers they pollinated in the early cretaceous.
The easier explanation is a higher power seeded life here. If you find a functioning phone on a beach, you don't just think a bunch of silicon molecules just evolved into a phone over millions of years. Someone is manipulating those molecules via complex processes.

Most of the universe is entirely predictable. Planets and stars go in predictable orbits for billions of years. Climates are fairly predictable. But as soon as there's a tiny bit of life, the behavior of a planet becomes unpredictable.

We already have space travel. We have artificial satellites. We have radio signals. In a century, we'll have colonized other planets. In a millenia, we would be changing climates on planets or polluting the universe with more satellites. Nukes are supposedly visible from space. So it's surprising we haven't seen this behavior in the rest of the universe. But an advanced enough civilization may have learned how to clean up after themselves and hide all traces.

As far as life goes, we've been around for 5 billion years. There's enough space out there for life to have emerged 8 billion years ago. Even with just a billion or so years of tech head start elsewhere, they should be far ahead of us. Arguably they'd be so far ahead of us that they'd be godlike in comparison.

Where does this higher power come from? There's a lot of answers, but it's sensible seeing that there are other hierarchies. We are a higher power. Higher than cells, molecules, electrons, quarks. Earth may well be some kind of chip or an egg farm. Maybe our purpose as a species is heating up the planet for some kind of galactic yeast.
Thanks for your response. Yeah that's nice and simple. I wonder how much you'll burn keeping it up for free, are we talking like on the order of $20/mo? If you use models like 4o-mini it might even be less, that thing is insanely cheap and not terrible. Cheers
I co-created Django. I've been writing about JavaScript since 2002. https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript/
This is actually a pretty common part of the threat model for high integrity computing (e.g. the ECU in your car and airplane avionics). Part of the standard solution is to run processors in lockstep and throw errors if any part of the cpu state diverges between the cores.
Yeah, in JavaScript I'll pretty much only write nested functions to use them as scope control, and usually I don't intend for that function to be callable elsewhere. Otherwise, I prefer writing functions that are as "pure" as possible, even if that means having to pass in many parameters each call.
People don't like to write tests so any argument saying you need fewer of them goes down real smooth. The details don't matter so much.

But when software actually needs to be made at scale and with high quality you almost always have lots of tests.

Statistically, the average developer is not writing software anymore where corner cases matter. They're writing various permutations on standard web apps. Most web apps are pretty buggy, even ones from major corporations. So stakes are relatively low for having failures.

People writing file systems or crypto routines are going to have an easier time understanding the value of tests.
Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL
Officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the weapons stockpile
Thats what C-SPAN is for
That's fair. Contract law was not invented from scratch to give Mrs Carlill the win, but much of the modern formalisation around the ingredients for a legal contract does date back to that case.

Also this models what we were discussing. What exactly the rules were for contracts drifted over time as people's intuitions and experiences changed, things that everybody just accepted as normal in 1825 seem insane in 2025 - when I was born there wasn't yet an Unfair Contract Terms Act for example - if you didn't read carefully maybe you're trapped in a deal that any fool could see was abusive, but the courts can't fix it.
It's pointless if one is just trying to put "points on the board" and see a bunch of green in their console. Knowing what to test is important. Should every function be tested? Probably not. Should every function that has conditional logic be tested? Maybe? I totally get that integration tests have immense value. Where I disagree is that, "the closer your tests are to the way a user would use your app" is a good way to use testing. Functional/Acceptance/E2E tests are but one tool in an aresenal. Telling new software developers to ignore 25 years of history because React components were hard to test in isolation (Enzyme - the package Kent's React Test Library is built to replace) is irresponsible. Telling them that it's "best practice" is disingenuous.
Ah, yes! That's pretty much the same then, just rotating the board.
I think the first problem is long-range communication capabilities. I am not in this field, but I think a network of optical communication nodes which span light years is needed. I imagine each node should be small, cheap to manufacture, and self-repairing in some form [1].

The second step is meeting energy requirements for deep space exploration, and I think the answer there is nuclear-powered deep space probes which can use the optical network to relay information back to Earth. But more importantly, there needs to be a self-contained autonomous system which can detect signs of life, ascertain next steps for making a determination, and ask for help when it doesn’t know the right next step, amongst other things [2].

Note that both of the things I am mentioning are half-done.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/general/spear-probe-an-ultra-lightweigh...

[2] https://spacenews.com/space-force-taps-four-firms-for-laser-...

For me, the incentive for deep space exploration is answering the why question of human loneliness in the universe. But another incentive is deep space mining.
> Adding "fake" frames to say the 5070 has the performance of the 4090 like Jensen, tells you even Nvidia do this comparison.

You're missing the point. The only thing that makes a 5080 a 5080 is that's what NVIDIA named it. of course comparisons are going to be made but it's meaningless to expect the numbers to correlate to some specific performance gain over the lower tier or previous generation.

The lineup is different every year. The metric that matters is performance per dollar, not the name of the product.

The 80 tier isn't great value this generation. That doesn't make it really a 5070.
We can buy more teslas to support space travel /s
Current suburbs are quite low-density due to roads and front-yards pointlessly wasting space. It works fine with Japanese-style suburbs, but car-centric suburbs need those front yards to cut down on the sound of fast-moving cars directly outside the house (and reducing speed limits in suburbs down to 5 or 10 is utterly unthinkable for most people), and they also need a 2-car garage with another 2 car spots on the driveway and then another 3 spots on the curb, in case they need to park 7 cars at once for some reason and all their neighbours do too.
> You do realize that I am talking about an instance that I operate as a business and which has actual paying customers?

No, and I don't care, to be honest. Use a website and email for your business. Social media should be for humans, not companies.

I also can't comprehend the idea of paying to use Mastodon. What do your users get out of that? Surely not robust moderation, if you think blocking and defederating is so awful.

> Luckily for me, my customers are sensible people who are not particularly interested in following these drama-seeking, HOA personalities of Mastodon. They just want to go on with their lives and support someone who is at least providing a service and support the open web.

So then... this doesn't actually affect you at all?
> It will never be enough for you.

That's not a good assumption to make for everyone. There are many people who do grow income without growing expenses (see the whole financial independence movement).

I spend about as much now as I did 7 years ago when I made 4x less.
>That's why I prefer gameplays on Nethack/Slashem, they are pretty hard to either fake or cheat in.

I wonder if you could train an AI on it and just have 1000 of em running to get the best records
Discussion (96 points, 6 hours ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481

(54 points, 2 hours ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512

(49 points, 23 hours ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119
If only it were that simple, Marc Andreessen's interview in the NY times put it best. The wealthy in tech were hurt by the anti corporate youth movement that resulted after the 2008 crash. They (the wealthy) didn't understand why so many employees were so against them, they then saw the Biden gov continuing that anti corporate stance as DEI and other initiatives to potentially control AI and crypto. The tech billionaires hitched their wagon to Trump as a way to 'survive' regulation and saw another opportunity to compete with each other through who had most sway over the most easily bought president since the teapot dome scandal.
> Now I can't participate at all: I can't ask my community for recommendations, take up offers on free concert tickets that are frequently given out, etc. Where else do I go for that?

A different subreddit. Make one yourself. If this censorship is truly so evil, won't people flock to join an alternative?

> Social media is a common carrier, and unelected mods are unwanted and unjustified authoritarians.

This is ridiculous. Other people's websites are not common carriers.
What service? It’s a bundler that outputs HTML, Js, and CSS. You can upload that or run a Node webserver wherever you want.
Thanks for checking this out! In this context, “genetic circuit” refers to synthetic biology constructs that use biological components (such as promoters and proteins) to regulate gene expression, rather than electrical circuits created by genetic algorithms.
These are both flagged.
Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.
> Unfortunately, Eshell does not have job control.

I wonder why, after all these years, nobody has added it?

If someone (not me) made a patch that did, would the GNU Emacs maintainers accept it?
"My understanding was that they "offered" early retirement"

That was an earlier wave, but things are moving so quickly it's understandable people are getting confused. The two hundred thousand terminated I referred to above are (roughly) all the employees in their probationary period (which is typically two years, but it varies by position) across the whole federal public sector workforce.

If we were to include contractors (e.g. USAID contractors), more than two hundred thousand people have been terminated by executive action since the start of the administration.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/15/trump-purges-real-w...
It failed my first test which concerned Upside magazine. All of these deep research versions have failed to immediately surface the most famous and controversial article from that magazine, "The Pussification of Silicon Valley." When hinted, Perplexity did a fantastic job of correcting itself, the others struggled terribly. I shouldn't have to hint though, as that requires domain knowledge that the asker of a query might be lacking.

We're mere months into these things, though. These are all version 1.0. The sheer speed of progress is absolutely wild. Has there ever been a comparable increase in the ability of another technology on the scale of what we're seeing with LLMs?
To beat my example into the ground.

If I were to put a fuel injector (system under test) into a vehicle, and drive it around a parking lot (E2E test), only to have the vehicle stall out. Is the fuel injector at fault? How would you prove that?

No, you pull out the component and you "bench test" it. Believe me, after many MANY hours spend fighting bugs where the extensive E2E suite passed, we finally had to go back to adding in unit tests for the small units under the surface. Not all... but many places.
Maybe I'm just stupid but if all the planes in the world used biofuels, wouldn't that mean that flying is net-zero carbon (at least as it comes to fuel consumption)?

Like you do your flying, release CO2, but that CO2 gets captured again... I mean that doesn't sound bad, right?

It's not going to reduce the level of CO2 in the air right now, but it would stop further increases... which, mathematically, seems to be the same thing as if we kept the status quo and did something else to reduce CO2 output? What am I missing?
You've not seen cats toying with their prey?
Has anyone worked out good strategy for this variant? At first think, I'd think Player 2 has an advantage because they are the first player who is able to make a move for their opponent and then _immediately_ play a move for themselves that exploits it.

And, I suppose there might be some strategy where it's important not to expose yourself to potential shenanigans of this kind.

So I'm wondering how this game looks for skilled players of both sides -- is it balanced, are the strategies interesting, etc. Or are we trying to work that out right now?

Were these rulesets chosen carefully among many options because they result in the most interesting games? Or is this just a YOLO?
I usually use the one we use in the FreeBSD project, which is to have the subject be of the form "component: action".
What's going to be even more insidious are the less obvious ramifications of indiscriminate terminations. Yes, this one is bas but was very obvious quickly. How about the ones that we won't find out about until we really, really need a service that got kneecapped?
I could have sworn I remember hearing this a few years back & that it was discovered due to the increase in shifting of magnetic north over time, & that their migrations back home correlated in that they were off by that amount..

At least that's what I've been telling folk. NewScientist I'm certain.
It's so awesome to be able to stream from my NAS at home my "documentary" of my last europe trip to someone in-person when I'm out at a gathering or whatever. Jellyfin + tailscale + whatever else you want to link up, is just awesome++
but BEVs will be much cheaper (than ICEs) in the long run

That presupposes leaps of improvements in battery technology and battery recycling. Right now, the maintenance cost of a BEV is roughly $1,000 per year on battery replacement costs alone, and while I'm sure those costs will go down over time, they need to drop by 90% to be cost-competitive with ICE cars. That requires new materials that aren't on the science horizon yet, FAFAIK.
> When you elect to take more three pointers you necessarily have to resort to shooting more difficult ones, which lowers the expected return on each one.

Well yeah, the idea is not to go all 3-pointer, it's that the borderline decisions need to adjust a few notches in favor of attempting 3-pointers, until the returns are balanced out.

> Not all shots are chosen equally.

I agree, that is a proper issue to figure out.
It's interesting that he threw Vance under the bus recently when asked about this. Clearly he has someone in mind already.
Yes Jellyfin does accept PR's but they don't accept hacks ie workarounds for single issue for a particular device won't be accepted easily. The maintainers feel using hacks and workarounds is not the best way to go for the long term maintenance of the project. One of the reasons skip intro took so long to get into jellyfin and jellyfin clients as they wanted a universal media segment system that can be used for other plugin apart from skipintro.
It's the same reason jellyfin android Tv app has not reached feature parity with Plex yet as the dev wants to do it right from the ground up so does not like to add device specific workarounds but try to fix it in way to not require workarounds.
We'll have to wait a week to know the actual number because he may call some of them back.
Ironically Steve Nash didn't shoot enough 3s, so his Nash equilibrium was pretty off.

In all seriousness, yes, there's a lot more to modern basketball than just "take more 3s". It's more like "try to get dunks and layups, but if that doesn't work get 3s, but also mid range is still valuable if it softens up defense". And defenses have learned to scramble and switch to cover a lot of 3 pointers, but that can still be exploited with cross court passing and switch hunting. Check out some cool plays here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo-V_ujmMFo
It's great to see the foundation model companies having their product offerings commoditized so fast - we as the users definitely win. Unless you're applying to be an intern analyst of some type somewhere... good luck in the next few years.

I'm just starting to wonder where we as the entrepreneurs end up fitting in.

Every majorly useful app on top of LLMs has been done or is being done by the model companies:

- RAG and custom data apps were hot, well now we see file upload and understanding features from OAI and everyone else. Not to mention longer context lengths.

- Vision Language Models: nobody really has the resources to compete with the model companies, they'll gladly take ideas from the next hot open source library and throw their huge datasets and GPU farm at it, to keep improving GPT-4o etc.

- Deep Research: imo this one always seemed a bit more trivial, so not surprised to see many companies, even smaller ones, offering it for free.

- Agents, Browser Use, Computer Use: the next frontier, I don't see any startups getting ahead of Anthropic and OAI on this, which is scary because this is the 'remote coworker' stage of AI. Similar story to Vision LMs, they'll gladly gobble up the best ideas and use their existing resources to leap ahead of anyone smaller.

Serious question, can anyone point to a recent YC vertical AI SaaS company that's not on the chopping block once the model companies turn their direction to it, or the models themselves just become good enough to out-do the narrow application engineering?

See e.g. https://lukaspetersson.com/blog/2025/bitter-vertical/
Just to quote the original rationale:

> Rationale: Simpler control flow translates into stronger capabilities for verification
and often results in improved code clarity. The banishment of recursion is perhaps the
biggest surprise here. Without recursion, though, we are guaranteed to have an
acyclic function call graph, which can be exploited by code analyzers, and can
directly help to prove that all executions that should be bounded are in fact bounded.
(Note that this rule does not require that all functions have a single point of return –
although this often also simplifies control flow. There are enough cases, though,
where an early error return is the simpler solution.) [0]

[0] https://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf
I genuinely thought CRA had been deprecated and development had ended a couple of years ago?

Edit:

Maybe it just stopped being a recommendation in the React Docs?

https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/5487
I don't see how it's "devolving" into politics, because it fundamentally is about a political attack. It's as if someone is reacting to the library of Alexandria burning and getting told "now come on, don't make it political..."
I guess you are not a cat owner
I would like to become a better use of Firefox by debugging issues I find locally. Any guidance on where to start?
If you're doing the book-keeping on that stuff, though, comparing to the status quo.. that charcoal that is on the crops used to be some fertilizer that also was being transported, right?

You have to be careful not to double-count progress but if you consider things relative to status quos, then you're still looking at progress right? Like improvements are still good, right?

Like if you're dead set on building a building, you're gonna need concrete no matter what. Might as well use "good" concrete I guess? Though there's likely not much magic to where building the building _reduces_ CO2 net.
They get paid to use CO2 pumped back in the wells so its a way to subsidize drilling.

Also the monitoring of said CO2 reservoirs is poor with leaks being a concern enough that would negate the whole project.
Whoaaa I was not aware of #3! Amazing, thanks. Got a few friends to share that information with as well :)
Good post, but it looks like there is no solution to this? At what point do you give up the web and invent a different protocol? Is there actually a solution to this?
Why not just use the commit message then? What benefits do you get from building your workflow around the proprietary PR interface?
~80% of the population lives in cities. If we transition over cities, then we've solved most of the problem already.
Yeah I think I’ll stick to building websites and web apps.
And Robert Horry too or sometimes Pippen.