skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One theory I’ve seen put forward on YouTube is that this is because modern digital cameras use a linear LUT when recording, which means that images displayed to everyone during the production process are naturally very washed out compared to how they would look colour-corrected to sRGB. As a result, production staff have become so used to the washed out colours of the linear colourspace that they’ve become accustomed to it, sub-consciously viewing a true colour-corrected version as being wildly over-saturated. The end result is that the films they’re delivering are desaturated because that seems normal to them!

It’s a plausible story if nothing else, but I would also guess that a large part of the reason is just fashion & trends in film making. A more saturated look will return in time no doubt.
I don't think this is right, basic domestic electrician training in UK takes 2 months. Many trades don't have a lisence, i.e. bike mechanic.

I think the problem is in the culture of these institutions, they are not prepared for getting iut of a classroon and getting their hand dirty.
That’s ridiculous, it’s entirely possible that these are one-time credentials for a single purpose and/or severely limited in scope.

Not saying that it’s a certainty it’s not, but if you make such a claim, you should better have some evidence to back it up.
Heavy, constant, medicinal smoker: about 1 to 2gm a day, when i have supply.
What you're saying basically amounts to "geopolitical nihilism." Just because something is physically far away doesn't mean that it isn't important or that American influence cannot be justifiable. This is the kind of rhetoric that lead to the pullout from Afghanistan.
It would be less jarring if they were at least marked out visually some way to differentiate them from my search.

And youtube trending is literal anathema to me, they are showing me things I literally hate. Not very conducive, especially when I am actively searching....for something specific.

Madness
Are you 100% certain the mopeds were wheeled? I think these days it's also possible to just have a moped on a rotating stilt in front of a blue screen, and that's a lot easier for interior shooting/stunts.
so nauseating though. got a headache within seconds of playing from the constant and completely random camera movement
This me.
Go back to? The war, death, and destruction never stopped… we just exported it to others.
There are skilled trades that don’t pay well. In any case there’s no canonical list of “skilled trades” to begin with.

I fail to see how you can be an electrician longer than a software engineer, but even if that was true there are far more careers a college degree enable that pay more.
Interesting, did not know, I wouldn't be surprised if the Kugelmugel name is not only related to the appearance of it but also a hat tip to the dish.
How do I sign up to get paid to shill for Russian interests on the internet? I have no convictions and would like to get money doing what you do.
Citing a blog post by the Brookings Institution is very funny to me. They were one of many think tanks in Washington that built the intellectual groundwork to justify the expansion of NATO in the first place.
I'm a teetotaler fitness nerd who gets 8 hours every night and wakes up early.

My problem is entirely around my absence of career direction.
I'm a white male who's never been sexually abused but I can clearly see that's wrong.

This, and being more objective / less emotional (due to not seeing it personally) would probably make me a better juror in such a case than someone who's personally experienced it.
Even before that, this is a common practice with DNS for decades to prove ownership of a domain.
+1 Having same issue here
The USSR attempted to join NATO in the 1950s:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/17/russia.iantray...

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/molotovs-proposal-t...
For sure, things have changed in annoying ways! BTW have you tried the RSS-style feeds in apps like NewPipe? I find that I at least get a nice dose of content I'm interested in, that way...
I think it's important to keep in mind the context of when some of these arrests and convictions occured. This is not a judgement but rather an observation: Is it possible that when violent crime escalates night after night, that the hand of the law gets larger, and larger?

Thus it becomes a perceived war zone for the police, where it's now arrest and convict, no matter whom, in order to do whatever it takes to stop the crime. I think broken windows was an example of this. Rights were violated, people wrongfully convicted. When the public and the politicians are demanding that the police do something, what's to stop the overreach?
> doing something uncouth like asking for your HN password

Yeah I was worried about this too, it's a disturbing trend.

Venmo was asking for my bank password a couple months ago, I was like fuck no. Who the HELL does that. Should be illegal to even ask.
That's how it generally happens from what I understand. A local or isolated investigation is started and during the process they may uncover a reasonably high-level source of the product. Should they be lucky enough to get a warrant to scan an email server that has plaintext business contents, they might come across a trove of tracking numbers. From there the three letter agency will disseminate tips and intel to more local police forces and field offices and innumerable people start getting love letters, visits, surveillance.

I also recall hearing that the USPS tracking info page is quite complex under the hood and logs a lot of your device/connection information when you enter a tracking number. No idea how true this is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all and I hope people behave as if it is.

Agreed about the wasted 20's on the internet. No doubt I could have better spent my time. But there was some incredible and wild stuff going on out in the wires.
About +-15 degrees. This accounts for 86% of saccades.

I need to confirm how sharply it drops after that, but in any case it should be above 20 PPD +-(15 to 30) degrees and above 12 PPD for +-(30 to 50) degrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_and_Comprehensive_Free_Tr...

This is what this is all about. It's not so much the money but also militaristic strategic assets. Moldova and Georgia doesnt have Russian war to deal with.

Which really comes down to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_Naval_Base

Russia has lots of land all over the black sea. They could build a gigantic base near rostov-on-don. So why dont they? To strike from and base at Rostov would be foolish. So many tight bottlenecks to get in and out. Maybe Novorossiysk instead? but no crimea is obviously important to them. Except novo is happening. They are building a naval base there. It will take time. In probably about 10-15 years crimea will go back to ukraine and this will be all over.

What's unsaid here. Why is it so important for russia to maintain such a huge naval presence in the black sea? This fleet isn't going past istanbul. Navy isn't even useful in war anymore really. An F35 from 40,000ft is practically untouchable by the russian navy and could probably sink their entire fleet from 300km away.

So what is it? Romania? Bulgaria? Turkey? Who on the black sea is Russia so afraid of?
One of the coolest things when I was playing games as a kid was working my way through the single player story, but being able to "skip ahead" and see all of the cool guns and gadgets by opening a multiplayer session. Nowadays you're locked out of most of the weapons in MP unless you're willing to put in 40+ hours (and much much more in some games).
Prototype-Based Programming
Nintendo makes the dumbest/silliest games that are super fun for my entire family. They never feel like work for me.

For example, the recent Big Brain Academy for Switch is a great multiplayer game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9kVptUWcE&t=900s

I play with my 8 year old and 5 year old, and we can each set our difficulty level separately (from Sprout for little kids who only want to press A, to Super Elite for gamers who love a challenge).

Being able to set our difficulty level separately makes it a challenge for me every time, and it's fun to play against my 5 year old.
Quiz to create your own AI-Generated Pokemon
>> One in ten (11%) women students experienced a sexual assault in a postsecondary setting during the previous year. About one in five (19%) women who were sexually assaulted said that the assault took the form of a sexual activity to which they did not consent after they had agreed to another form of sexual activity—for example, agreeing to have protected sex and then learning it had been unprotected sex.

Is there a baseline for what constitutes sexual assault? Or is it entirely subjective?
What assumptions does it make? What if one of those assumptions fails? For example, what if it's never called with a certain combination of parameters because nothing generated them until a new process was added somewhere else and that combination of parameters now cause it to fail? What if the format of a parameter changes slightly and it fails on that?

We have code like this where I work and cases where a change to something has caused that one rock solid process written by an intern in 1998 that few people even remember exists to suddenly start to fail. I would call it a ticking time bomb, and if it's one that will explode in a big way, it might be worth analyzing it to see how it will react to non-obvious parameters or environments.
If you are echoing a user's input back to them, what's the threat model that requires you to sanitize the output?

That said, it's obviously not worth build a "don't sanitize this" filter for that case.
Shrinking the window and expanding it again sometimes makes the smaller dots disappear from the full-sized editor, but not every time. I'll let you debug that :)
> Without the US, does the world just go back to war, death, and destruction everywhere?

We're in a uniquely, some argue unnaturally, peaceful period [1]. For most of human history, lords spilled blood bickering over borders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
>> European Parliament decided

>You mean EU politicians decided.

Well parliaments tend to have politicians as members, yes. That's generally how representative democracy works.

>I want the right to use my data as I see fit, including exchange it for "free" services and products.

You can use your own personal data however you want to, the GDPR has absolutely no limits on that. And if you want to give your express consent for others to use your personal data in any way they see fit, you can also do that. Consent is a legal basis for processing personal data, after all.

They just can't use my personal data - or the personal data of anyone else who has withheld consent - like that.
Ask HN: How is Windows 11? Should I upgrade?
My 9th gen Lenovo carbon x1 is stable on 10 Pro ... Should I bother upgrading?
I'm wondering if this all about the NordStream 2 pipeline, though I'm not sure how threatening Ukraine helps Russia's case... maybe just to show that you don't want pipelines through an unstable region.

Also, who benefits when natural gas prices go higher?
Would love to hear someone narrow down the era "when games were fun".

It wasn't the 1970s and 1980s. Arcade games were designed to extract quarters from consumers. They were brutal. They heavily influenced game design for home systems, for years, so you'd expect games for the Nintendo Entertainment System to act like they're trying to extract quarters from you.

In the 1990s this should have been gone, but there are games like The Lion King (1994, SNES / Genesis) which...

> Disney actually told the developers to make the game so difficult that people wouldn't be able to beat it during a rental period.
No other headset except the Varjo Aero use this technology, and only the high-end Varjos have a focal view display (1920x1920 in the central 27 degrees). Rest is basically uniform throughout.

We use the peak PPD for the Aero.
the first part of the video by that professor, explains that ukraine is a very divided country, it's made up by two different groups of people, ukrainian-speakers and russian-speakers. So you gotta take this into account when considering what "Ukraine" wants.

> Russian security assurances aren't about trying to defend the country against an encroaching NATO, but rather trying to restore as much as possible the domination of Russia over former USSR states.

well, the video explains better than I could in one comment why this is nonsense. It 100% is all about Russian preventing a rival military base in a border country.
Hey I appreciate it! It's a tiny little hack but I'm glad people seem to like it! ORY Hydra was fantastic every step of the way, I originally started with a completely different tool/approach actually then switched to Hydra and rewrote things and it was way smoother. Thanks for the awesome tooling you make.
Games with gacha mechanics (i.e. the ability to trade real money for tries at a random reward) should be rated 18+. I hope we get to a point where there's enough outrage that the ESRB is forced to act.
Java’s New HTTP Client API, Unix-Domain Sockets, and Simple Web Server
Yea and many of us also keep the majority of our projects private. Either because they are work for another company or because we don’t as a rule give away everything for free.

It would be a red flag for a company to punish you for not producing a bunch of open source code. Unless of course they are an open source company and that matters for your job.

It would be bizarre if when hiring a plumber you ask for a history of free plumbing they’ve provided for people.
I mentioned "in every practical sense" - I'd bet that those that don't have credit cards don't do online purchases either, in the vast majority of cases (>95%). But indeed, that's true in the western world - I might be worng for Africa and Asia/China where mobile-only payments are more prevalent.
I tend to think it's even more true for smaller companies that do not have the margin for too many mistakes. FAANG do not have an all-A cast. They have enough buffer to weather the odd mishire; and they also have enough projects going on that they can find better projects for people based on their strengths. At a small company on the other hand, the wrong hire can be existentially problematic for the business.
I remember many people saying that that was a great scene, but to me it immediately looked horrible -> big mistery... .

I hate that scene - the idea is great, but the quality of the <textures?> is in my opinion horrible... . Weird.
1. Trades are overwhelmingly what people do when they don't go for a BA, and often have houses and children far before college graduates. Many more mechanics, plumber, hvac, electrical, welders, pipfitters, etc than we give credit for.

3. Scholarships are not based on intelligence. They are based on access to resources. Many good scholarships require references, achievements, good writing, and lower income. Hard to do that in a city school, if at all. Those that get the scholarships come from parents that know how to game the system. This leaves first generation students far out of the equation. To add to that, judging students based on their high school is a terrible method of educating.

4. A degree has become more required if you don't have the resources to already live in a major city for your work. For example, you can work in software if you live in cali cities far easier than if you live in Utah. If you're coming from Utah, you have to pass the "I'm a drone" test of getting a degree. Many people would like to work in something other than trades, hence university.

University no longer functions like we think it does. Large amounts of it are now online, auto-graded, with instructors barely doing any work other than showing up. Housing and tuition costs have skyrocketed with far less scholarships than ever before. I recall a 40,000 scholarship 8 years ago that simply doesn't exist anymore, along with a number of others. Many of these are funded by various communities or collaborations of companies, and over time the over corporatization, lack of funds and lack of community have lead them to just not offer scholarships anymore. Why give away free money? A really easy way to upset a number of teachers, especially high school teachers, is to tell them to try to locate applicable scholarships for their students. They can't. Perhaps a couple that maybe add up to $800 one shots. Half of that being a local scholarship. They get very hand wavey and think 1 of 3 scholarships from Microsoft or Google is reasonably obtainable, yet realistically it would be similar to winning the lottery.

There are many bright and hard working students I meet daily that simply cannot get the support they need and cannot devote their time to learning what they need to. It is absolutely brutal the number of hours some of these students are working just to survive. We give the largest amount of support to students whom are already well off and tell those that have to work for what they have to go away. That's American education as I see playing out as we speak.
Yep, I still do this with gbs.fm!
>There aren't colleges problem. Its coincidence that for the last 60 years people felt like they needed college...

Colleges - especially for-profit colleges - have certainly contributed to that feeling.
Ironically, the tech industry has provided an alternative solution - cameras recording everything everywhere. Dash cams to provide proof of what happened in collisions, workplace cameras to reduce liability for employers and also helps protect employees, home cameras also for liability reduction as well as protection against police lying about what happened…etc.
The article is light on details and has its mind made up as to what we should think of the provision, but it made me recall a remark I once encountered to the effect that "a police state is mainly concerned with making the job of the police easier".

As life in the United States becomes increasingly bleak and anti-democratic (via regulatory capture and other political corruptions), it will become increasingly important for the state to exercise constant control over the populace.

I'm a pessimist, but happy to be wrong.
Maybe it would be a win-win with a big enough player base, but as it is the Portal mode is basically empty now - at least in the Australasia region. BF2042 player numbers have dropped too far to sustain it I'm afraid (for other reasons we shan't get into).
Link to the actual quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pokemon-ai-quiiz

(I posted Max's tweet because I figured there'd be more relevant info in that thread for the HN audience than Buzzfeed)
In the short term I agree with you that trades pay very well, $250,000 a year even at the higher end. Even more if you're willing to risk your life on power lines or windmills.

But that's a starting wage in tech in Seattle or the Bay area for an engineer that's in demand and it only goes up from there. Those engineers that are in demand all have undergraduate degrees, it's a huge virtue signal for hiring for now. A new college graduate with one year of industry experience got poached for $400k by a competitor. And that doesn't begin to cover what AI superstars make straight out of school.

Ironically as someone in the later phases of my tech career, I am increasingly interested in trade skills over tech skills. And doubly ironically there's a lot of intellectual overlap.
There is some promise, but I'd push back on the implication that this is viable as a mainstream option.

Right now through either Oculus (Wireless) Link, or something like Virtual Desktop, you can totally stream content from a PC to the headset, but that comes with a big list of asterisks (easily observable if you look at any support channel for both products):

- Most people's WiFi sucks, the room they're in has poor signal, or their router is mostly shite. The experience is awful for them.

- Most people's PCs are not connected to their network by ethernet, which seems like a crucial part of getting a good experience.

- Even under ideal conditions configured by an enthusiast who groks the tech, frame drops are relatively common.

- Streaming is generally not possible at full-resolution due to bandwidth limitations. A wireless-first approach presents an additional barrier to one of VR's biggest stumbling blocks - as screen resolutions increase streaming cannot keep up.

So getting the setup to work well right now requires a pretty knowledgeable user. Even assuming we can improve on this, I will wager that "95% effective, visible degradation a few seconds at a time at random intervals" is enough of a problem to be a hard stop on mainstream adoption.

This is the hole VR is in generally - the tech is "good enough" for enthusiasts, but punishing to the mainstream.
Theoretically, in that ideal world of perfect competition, sure.

One glimpse at our current reality will show that this is not what is working in practice.

Agriculture, for example, is subsidised up the wazoo. Were it not, market forces would dictate that no agriculture is done at all unless it can turn a profit.

Medication, for another example, is more expensive in the US than in any other place on earth. Market forces dictate that you pay hundreds of dollars for a commodity medication whereas in other distant lands the government negotiates a good price for its citizens.

Market forces give you one, maybe two ISPs to choose from in your area that are expensive and slow, or bandwidth capped. Those market forces also collude to prevent new entrants into the market, e.g municipal providers.

Market forces don't really invest in infrastructure, or shared infrastructure, unless they can get a return on the investment (e.g a toll road).

Market forces will try to keep things cheap, like labour costs, which is why there is such thing as collective bargaining and unions to ensure a person's pay isn't optimised away.

Market forces may also optimise away an entire industry or competence in favour of importing. This is how countries like the UK have transitioned to more of a service based economy and have also practically lost the capability to manufacture certain things.

The overall point being that for all of the things where the invisible hand of the market works wonderfully (as it essentially does with consumer goods), there are just as many cases where that is explicitly not desirable and checks and balances (i.e regulation, collective bargaining, government) are required to ensure the market works in favour of society and not against it. The two things have to work in balance, having one without the other would lead to undesirable outcomes.
> In addition many are not welcoming to women at all...

There's a long way to go on this, but there are definitely people pushing back on it in various ways, including a number of women welders, electricians, bricklayers, etc all posting about themselves and their experiences on Tiktok:

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/women-in-trades
Colonialism went out of style a century ago and this whole discussion is based on the fact that Russia didn’t get that memo.
That's a pretty... bizarre set of things to whine about.

If you want to grumble about DO for stuff, their absolutely scattered performance on lower end instances is a better one, though for how cheap the bandwidth is, it can be made to work. And when things like CloudFlare exist, I can't fault DO for not duplicating that sort of behavior.
Costs vs. benefits and all. It's hardly unreasonable if you're risk-averse.
The weight is actually very similar to the HTC Vive with the premium audio strap, which is 741g.

That as well, it actually feels better to have the audio strap which distributes the weight better than just the 470g headset alone.
IMHE, Bastion Hosts suck.

I agree, any security standards you're going to apply to a bastion host, just apply them to your entire network if possible, add security at every layer. So many times a bastion host just serves as a checkbox with added toil of jumping through a host. I despise them for the most part.