skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really fix the color space though so I tried enhanced the prompt

ffmpeg command to convert hdr video to SDR and fix the colorspace:

and it returned:

ffmpeg -i input.hdr -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter_complex "colorlevels=entropy_mode=1:levels=srgb:source_range=full:target_range=full:rgb_to_yuv=sigmoidal" -y output.sdr.mp4

I don't really understand this so I asked it to explain:

how does this fix the colorspace?

It replied:

The RGB to YUV conversion is done using a "sigmoidal" function, which basically means that it applies a non-linear transformation to the input video. This transformation is designed to "compress" the bright colors in the video, making them more manageable for SDR displays.
The colorlevels filter is also adjusting the black and white points of the video. This is done to ensure that the video can be displayed correctly on SDR displays, which have a limited color gamut.
Finally, the target_range and source_range options are used to ensure that the video is encoded in the correct range for SDR displays.
overpriced garbage
Assuming that a vehicle goes 250,000 km before hitting the scrap heap:

250,000km / 6 kWh/km * 0.30 €/kWh overnight rate = €12,500

2500 100km * 6 l/100km * 2 €/l = €30,000

You could have saved substantially more than €13k, even if you had to finance the difference.

Lifetime TCO is the proper metric, even if you only keep your car for 5 years. 2 major reasons. 1) anybody buying a used car obviously cares about costs, so is going to value fuel savings quite highly and should be willing to pay the appropriate premium. 2) In 5 years time in Europe the gasoline infrastructure will be starting to degrade and most used buyers will want EV's.
This platform looks very cool!
https://www.boardible.com/
Tesla can now scan for potholes and adjust vehicle suspension to avoid damage
>but some people here can't talk objectively about crypto for some reason.

To the contrary: It's the crypto people who can't talk objectively about blockchains, because every single "invention" they come up with has some kind of money-making scheme attached to it. There's very little talk of blockchains without the crypto tokens attached, because a blockchain without that is just an ordinary boring old distributed database, and that isn't fun to them. Every time I try to talk about that among a group of crypto enthusiasts, I either get ignored or the conversation fizzles. Even you're doing the thing where you assume that someone must not want to talk about it because they missed out on the opportunity to make money. That whole mentality is toxic and illustrates the ponzi-like nature of the scheme; those who got in first can make a lot of money from cashing out early, everyone else will get stuck holding the bag.
No, I'm refuting your claim about anthropology in general having an 'aim to influence public policy'.

Public policy is not the focus of anthropology, where did you get that idea?

Anthropology is not political science

You used very specific words that mean very specific things. 'Aim to influence' means that the goal is literally to influence public policy. That's not what the study of anthropology is about.

>Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species.[1][2][3] Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology[1][2][3] studies cultural meaning, including norms and values.

Anthropologists generally try not to interfere with the society they're studying, they don't want to impact the system because they are just there to record. Not to change. Of course there will be some activists in many fields but that is not the goal in anthropology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology
I feel like describing him as a protagonist of book/movie misses that he was a real person.
https://archive.ph/2Bpk0
I would love to learn about the software development side of the US military/industrial complex. I read the Pentagon Wars [0] last year and it was fascinating. Read Skunk Works a while back [1].

What I found really interesting about the Pentagon Wars, is how the incentives don't really parallel what I see in "normal businesses". I wonder if it's the same for software?

Is there anything more recent with the focus on software? If not, I'd love to read more about the design/development/testing of hardware as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works#cite_note-16
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I went looking into it, but haven't found a good capsule reference. It's a pretty strong cultural practice (and an old one; references to Classical practices like "the cult of Dionysis" are well-worn) and isn't always specified.

This article "“Cult” in the Study of Religion and Archaeology" in ASMA (https://www.academia.edu/5061036/Cult_in_the_Study_of_Religi...) has a pretty good discussion.

Here's an article from a text book on "Archaeology of Cult and Religion": (https://www.academia.edu/13590600/2005._Archaeology_of_Cult_...)

You can see a working usage in "A Problem Oof Definition: “Cultic” and “Comestic” Contexts in Philistia" (https://www.academia.edu/1868319/A_Problem_of_Definition_Cul...)

I haven't read the books, but there's a couple books covered in this review from AJA on the topic: https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/619

Modern archaeology makes some odd-seeming linguistic choices to try to avoid implying more than they actually know; part of that is avoiding "religion" in favor of "ritual" and "cultic practices", because "religion" implies a whole lot of stuff that artifacts just can't see.
I'm arguing no one is being dismissive. You seem to be stating that someone has been dismissive as a matter of fact, rather than opinion, no?

I agree it's hard to say what that means, but that is an entirely different argument and has nothing to do with whether or not these averages exist. They do, as a matter of fact, they just might not be measuring things perfectly, as I'm sure we would agree it's hard to know what a perfect measurement even is.

I would consider it dismissive to pretend like these measurements that we do focus on today don't exist, though.

Do I need to offer up a list of standardized testing methods we utilize today or can we at least agree that we are attempting to measure education levels?
I really like it! :D
I am occasionally getting walmart emails, despite never signing up, because I am not even from the US.

Just yesterday it was an attempt at a password reset. For an email that doesnt even exist in their system, allegedly.

Sorry, that second one was best buy. This was the text:

You may need to create an account.

We received a request to reset your password on BestBuy.com®.

However, we don't have an account associated with this email address. You can try to sign in with a different email address.

You can also create a new account using any email address you choose.

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> I went from not being able to play any instrument to sheet reading Fur Elise in about a year of playing 15/20 minutes per day.

Apps can clearly be very helpful, by doing such things as telling you how well you are playing the pieces, grading exercises, perhaps adjusting the pacing and sequence of the material based on your progress, and more.

When learning from non-interactive methods those can be problems.

But don't give too much credit to the app.

Most of the credit for getting to where you did in a year I think goes to you for putting in 15/20 minutes of daily practice. There's a good chance you would have reached a similar position if you had instead used something more old fashioned, like the first couple of books from Alfred's All-in-one Adult Piano Course or Adult Piano Adventures All-in-one Course and put in 15/20 minutes daily.

An app may make it more likely you will stick with it, say by gamification or by reducing some of the aforementioned problems which might otherwise have discouraged you, so it deserves some credit, but much less than the amount you deserve.
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Which one of you gave up a career to do this?

FWIW, I was home-taught up till 16. In my experience, there are a lot of pluses and negatives to consider, for the long-term health, wealth, and happiness of homeschooled kids (especially for continuing homeschooling for that logo). In my opinion, you need at least some reference to the current acceptable social and academic standards (for a variety of reasons, I had neither).
Programming in Rust can massively reduce the carbon footprint of your IT
in that scenario why not use foreign key? any advantage to using constraint?
Maybe. We know what language skill acquisition loss does to children, especially the poor. And now with the extreme virility of newer variants it seems impossible to prevent infection over the medium term. So we’ve probably stunted the development of a generation of kids for no benefit to them.
> This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to grow up. There are certain skills, like learning to speak, that can only be done at a certain age. Once that age is past it is not possible to ever pick them up and be fluent at them.

We can at least be thankful none of those skills are learned at school.
Hasn't Valve publicly stated that if they go out of business or something they will make all their games accessible? [1] Obviously a forum post isn't exactly top-tier evidence but if it's true that's at least a tiny bit reassuring.

All that said, I usually buy my games off GOG when they're available there, simply because I like the guarantee that the games will continue to work even if they decide that I'm not cool enough to serve.

[1] https://forums.evga.com/Steam-replies-to-what-will-happen-if...
It isn't... now. On a PDP-11 with 40 kW of RAM, on the other hand...
Great, so are we using phrases and words that people define wildly differently to describe specific things? That's a terrible way to go about communicating ideas.

As a pharmacologist, the phrase is meaningless to me. There is literally no distinction between 'hard' or 'soft' drugs
You don't have to be somber to be serious.

Making jokes and being serious is not a dichotomy.
related with 500 comments at "Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32045906
My very first programming job was in 1991 or 92 writing an interactive kiosk based upon a touch screen driven by an Amiga, using the multimedia platform Scala (quite similar to the later Macromedia Director, but it still exists).

Then with a colleague we developed an interactive phone application (the sort that asks you to "press 1 for this, press 2 for that, press # to go back to the menu") on a SCO Unix system, in some sort of weird BASIC. While one of us tested the application on the phone, the other one played "X-whack-a-mole" :)
wonderful writing - looking forward to pt2!
I don’t think that, and that’s not how school choice programs work.
That's not remotely what is being said here, and you know it.
Seems like we're giving the site a hard time, archive.org URL from earlier today:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220711140012/https://shrooly.c...
No one thinks that anyone thinks it's a good thing that children's lives were disrupted. No one thinks anyone is pro-pandemic. The question is, and always was, about priorities and what's acceptable to inflict upon young people "just to be on the safe side".

The worst part about school closures is how pseudoscientific the rationale was, and the most infuriating part is that it came with a generous dollop of patronizing "trust the science" exhortations. Closing schools was a terrible mistake, and until we countenance that, it's going to be a problem.
> Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here.

Probably accurate. Growing edible mushrooms on such a small scale doesn't make any sense given that they are 90% water, and so shrink ~90% when you cook them. This would be like buying an AeroGarden that can grow only a single leaf of parsley.

E.g. it takes at least 10 lbs of lions mane to make crab cakes for two people, whereas I doubt this thing is going to produce more than half a pound.
This is post # 67 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components.
Events are signals or actions fired or emitted by systems we interact with programmatically. And these signals are picked up and handled by event listeners — code sections that listen and respond to events...
Someone should invent a value transfer technology that routes around middlemen. Censorship resistant, so to speak.
Absolutely. IMO the government should be providing interest free loans rather than tax credits to facilitate the adoption of electric vehicles and residential solar.
B 612 because it was designed for the cockpit of Airbus planes. Would feel even better if it wasn't a google font.
Under Uber, drivers make more money, customers get better service. Middlemen lose. It gets easier for new drivers to find work, under flexible working arrangments. Leftists should be cheering this.
Just about every major enterprise in the world?
I understand the case for the irony, but it's one of those situation where a tecnology can do say 1000 different things but 99% of the people only need like 5-10 of them.

It's the same with OpenSSH, Apache httpd and and many more tools. Take OpenSSH as an example: it can do a lot of little-known things (SSH certificate authority, SOCKS proxy, port-forward, signing stuff and verifying signatures and so much more)... Yet like 99% of the people will just do "ssh somehost" and be done with that.
Part of the problem is that the question itself is not very sensible in the first place. But if you want to ask more complex questions, you first need to conclusively set aside simpler ones, even ones that are so ludicrous as to only be useful as a convenient straw man. So this is very much a worthwhile activity.
Even Russians don’t really watch vanity garbage made by this director (Shakhnazarov).

The only reason he gets huge budgets and heads state filmmaking companies is because he’s an enormous Putin and war supporter.
There are plenty of legal ways to gamble online now.

GP suggests it's been 20 years since their interview. Looking through [0] sports betting was illegal almost everywhere until 2018. Prior to that, it was legal in much of Europe, and there were indeed a number of companies who were looking the other way on (and indeed indirectly marketing to) Americans, in violation of US laws.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_the_United_States#...
The kids that suffered from the negative consequences of this are likely not going to be policy makers.
I think that's the part of these things that bothers me (almost) the most. I want to say that Stallman is an "extremist", because I generally don't like what he has to say, but it does seem like a lot of his fears are coming to fruition.
It certainly was a thing. There was a spate of things like this happening in the first couple of months of the war:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60684374

https://www.newsweek.com/college-backtracks-banning-teaching...

Hopefully that particular brand of stupidity is mostly over now though.
The Perverse Impact of Calling for Energy Conservation [pdf]
The article is 1988, not 1998.
The argument I’m making is that there is a cynical thread in the politics around COVID in schools in the US driven by teachers’ unions. This leads people to make these self contradictory arguments.
Bad Math at Wolfram Alpha (Or Not?)
That still doesn't make it a feature. If it were as easy to make it portable as not portable (which it often is not), you would choose portable.
What is a year in the end? You got dozens of them, you can spare one if you really have to, to preserve life, say.

The damage comes from the tiering of education, where anyone not "ready" at the next stage doesn't get access to it at all. That structure is a policy decision we've made, not a necessary fact of education or life.
I love it as a customer. There's a lot of excitement when new changes come out, and I want them right now!

Beyond business software, I can think of the way that indie games are delivered as early releases on Steam. Most recently, I would get excited for every little Valheim update. It extended the life of the game, which probably won't be truly done for many more years. If they were limited to a single boxed physical release, the game would be left with a shorter development cycle limited by the production budget. Now, the game's sales more directly dictate the level of attention the game gets. Concepts are validated earlier and customers get to more frequently provide feedback rather than developers spending years building something and hoping that people like it.

That particular developer also did a great job of generally not breaking your world and save game (somewhat unlike similar creative/survival games like Minecraft, where you'd be missing out on a lot of things by not starting fresh for each major update).

Sure, frequent updates can break things...but back in the day, there were still plenty of bugs on formally released products, and then you're stuck with those broken things for months or years waiting for the next version to physically ship to you.

One of the things that makes CD/CI possible in the first place is that testing has become far more automated and sophisticated. No one would tolerate CI/CD if it didn't have that additional level of automated quality.

When I see someone who claims not to like when software gets frequent updates, I ask myself: "Do you even like software? I thought new functionality was supposed to be exciting!" I personally see resistance to change as a generally negative personality trait (obviously, there are limits, not all change is good change), and I think that's why I don't understand the romantic nostalgia for the days when we'd buy a piece of software in a box off of a shelf.
It's absolutely bonkers to me that recreational fliers can still rain toxic lead on people below.
I'm not sure we should be proud of businesses having to force their hourly employees to act like bouncers for surly anti-maskers.
> I remember having to install XCode for some dependencies.

If you really don't want to create a free developer account to download the Xcode command line tools (That's probably what your dependency refers to, as the full Xcode is usually not necessary) you could just install or build the dependencies from another source?

You could also just download them via curl (There's direct links to the latest version out there) or `xcode-select --install` which both don't need an Apple ID.
I have used Calibre for years. It's utilitarian and I can usually get it to do what I need. The weird things I need--editing the metadata of ebooks, converting between formats (including to Amazon's weird KFX using a plugin that piggybacks on Amazon's official kindle tools).

Yeah, it's not some pretty mainstream app. But managing media files of any kind is a power user / nerd activity. Frankly it's a relief to to have to help people out with their completely fucked iTunes anymore. Personally I use Calibre for ebooks, and Swinsian (and tools like MP3Tagger). Ideally I'd have some sort of app that was like classic file-management-only iTunes but instead of iPod syncing, it would be a Plex or similar server for music and video.
I think a prerequisite is to have some experience with functional programming (F#, OCaml, Scheme...) and then realise a simple option type implement a monadic interface (bind + return). From there, you can basically try to write functions which return an optional value using bind/return rather than pattern matching on Some/None.

From there, it comes with practice and you can see how bind/return work for other things (notably concurrency). There's no need for any theory to use monads effectively.

To me, the problem with Haskell is that you need monad from the beginning, whereas in OCaml, you can start using them when you're familiar with basic ML.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to IAM Policy Wildcards
An electric car with a full charge can run the seat heaters for about a month.
I wrote I don't know. Whatever was there by the installation procedure described. (I am at sick leave at the moment. The PC is off not to hinder recovery. The phone is on to raise the feeling...).
Ask HN: Does anyone have experiences with Canada's Startup Visa?
I'd love to hear from anyone familiar with Canada's Startup Visa process, particularly if it's something you've gone through or considered.

I remember a lot of fanfare when it was first announced, and it seemed like an interesting novel approach to attracting startups.

Looking at it lately, it seems like a few of the Designated Organizations were almost operating on a pay-for-play model, where it comes across almost like they are charging fees for recommendation letters and then essentially rubber-stamping them.

Searching online mostly gives results from Youtube/Reddit/etc posted by companies & lawyers who will help streamline the process, in exchange for another fee.

Is this still a viable/helpful process for startups?
Are there designated organizations which are more helpful/legitimate that one should consider, or any recommendations of who to avoid?
How does PragmataPro vs Iosevka compare?

I use Iosevka, but am curious about PragmataPro
this study did not use a low carb diet. The feed was roughly 1/3 lard and 1/3 sugar by weight.
Much like the Iraq war, the only people who are punished are those who called it right.
>then literally the entire stock market is a ponzi scheme - how else would you pay investors more if you weren't making money off of new investors paying more for the exact same stock?

No, this is very wrong and is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of stocks that seems to be going around in crypto circles. The stockholders make money from the actual, real profits of the company, either through dividends or buybacks. The entirety of crypto is like if everything were an unregulated penny stock in a company that openly announces they have no profits and they have no plan to ever make profits.
Tron is probably my favorite movie of all time! A fun adventure movie that's amazing to look at through the entire movie thanks to the immense effort put forth by the entire team, even if the story goofs up in a few places. If you have the time, watch The Making of Tron documentary where they go over (and show) some of the processes they used and show them as well!

One thing I can't get over in regards to the sequel (Legacy) is how it changed the aesthetic of the computer world from nice bright neon on white and vivid purples to all black and neon blue or orange! Legacy is jam packed with CGI but it's still less visually interesting to look at (in my opinion) because of the lack of color. Not to mention it moves away from the "power to the users/believers" angle of the first film to try and take a philosophical stand on everything that amounts to meaning nothing.

Tron is a truly unique movie in everything it did, and my greatest sadness is that nothing that came after it has the same look and feel as the original. The closest we get is the world they had in Kingdom Hearts 2...
Not even close to the same amount of work. Replacing the battery pack in my PHEV, should it ever need replacing, which I doubt, involves removing 20 bolts and unplugging it. It drops right out the bottom of the car.
> "Coronaviruses do not mutate"

The only people saying this were vaxx aficionados and Covid certificate promoters who were trying to convince the public by claiming “you only need to get vaccinated once, the certificates will have unlimited validity”

Then all of a sudden “oops actually you need boosters, the virus magically mutated, literally noone could have predicted that!”
If you're saying "Is it that complicated to understand?" isn't communicating divisiveness, I don't think you're being honest with me. I do understand that _you_ are not being dismissive however.

What I am saying is that "education level" is meaningless, and any attempt to measure it will ultimately be meaningless.