skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HDR is only meant to make a handful of elements brighter -- glowing lightsabers, glints of sunlight, explosions. HDR is never meant to make any of the content darker.

I have to do some math to check if this matters or not, but HDR is able to make dark scenes much better too. SDR video doesn't have nearly enough bit depth to represent anything dark well (it's not even 8-bit) whereas 10bit HDR does. So I would expect to see more dark scenes in properly displayed HDR.

Also, in dynamic HDR you should be able to make a dark scene by encoding it brighter and using the metadata to darken it, though I don't remember if it actually works in practice or if anything does it.
Defining mental illness in terms of deviance from law is actually an insane idea.

Were the opponents to Nazis mentally ill, simply because they did not adhere to Nazi law?

Think about the implications.
Uh, I just want to point that the sentence you quote gives the reader zero information concerning the substance of the questions being debated. It could be summarized as "she didn't accept undescribed things that key unnamed people wanted".

Not to put too fine a point on it but the main thing it illustrates is the opaqueness of journalist political commentary, something Debord liken to a "tedious series of lifeless, inconclusive crime novels [having] all the dramatic interest of a realistically staged fight between blacks, at night, in a tunnel." [1]

[1] https://monoskop.org/images/3/3b/Debord_Guy_Comments_on_the_...
> Mental illness could also be defined by a person's ability to function in their community and social constructs.

No, I think mental illness should be defined relative to a person's capacity to change behaviour volitionally or in response to feedback signals, like a scolding or rehab or imprisonment. People who are mentally ill do not respond to feedback signals like this, they have little volition over their behaviours without significant pharmaceutical or other interventions first. It's like asking someone with Tourette's to stop having verbal tics as compared to someone who just likes swearing. There's a fundamental difference in volitional control and responsiveness to feedback.
Beyond the Buzz: Cannabis-Induced Brain Damage Identified
Thank you for the question! It's very easy to rocket into $500/mo+ when you start needing your add-on features that I really think should be standard for any paid tier of something like "user management as a service." User impersonation, MFA, custom roles/permissions don't necessarily have scaling costs with them so charging more for these features seems predatory. But I trialed your product prior to these pricing changes so I don't have first-hand experience implementing them, maybe there is some justification for the added cost.

Do you still need to be in a paid tier in order to ban users? It's been a while since I tried your product out and I seem to remember that being the case in the early days.
Dead Poets Society
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (超時空要塞マクロス 愛・おぼえていますか)

I saw it in the movie room at a con, and learned:

(a) there was a world of sci-fi beyond the US

(b) it's possible to follow a movie with neither subs nor dubs

(c) the Itano Circus (板野サーカス) was unlike anything I'd ever seen on screen
Also just to piggy back on this, every television I have ever purchased has been calibrated like HOT, SICK ASS from the factory.

Step ONE every time I buy a TV is to spend a half an hour or so using tons of calibration images to get it dialed in to a sensible setting, and it's shocking how much a lot of them need changed. Almost every TV comes calibrated to be used as a display unit in the store which means contrast is rammed through the roof, brightness is way up, they usually have about 15 different kinds of smoothing or frame interpolation going, "denoisiers," color filtering for some insane reason, it's fucking ridiculous.

This is honestly why most of the time I buy cheap ass off-brand TV's because there's just less bullshit to turn off when the TV has "fewer" features.
That it exists at all.

Debian maintainers changed sshd to notify systemd when it is ready. This notification is only a few lines of code, but it's even _fewer_ lines if you call the sd_notify() convenience function in libsystemd.so

So now you're linking to libsystemd.so. What's also in libsystemd.so? Logging functionality, for programs that need to read systemd logs. That could be in a separate library, but this is systemd, so of course it's not. Everything's in one library. To read compressed systemd logs, libsystemd.so requires a bunch of compression libraries, including liblzma.so.

Anyone linking to libsystemd.so, e.g. to notify at startup, ends up loading liblzma.so, the backdoored version of which abuses glibc ifunc functionality to replace functions in libssl.so in order to take over sshd.
I'm gonna guess that the true number was a lot higher, simply because it became a meme.

That said, the Salem witch trials were only a couple dozen people: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+in+sale...

versus the larger genocides and cleansings of the Nazis, Cultural Revolution, etc.

If it were orders of magnitude higher, I suspect there'd be more direct evidence in the record, including names.
systemd is nothing but red hat market capture. you cannot sell Linux certification if you must teach people to code, as was the case with other inits.

nobody write code to get a mcse. there's a reason they were called mouse clicking solutions expert. redhat wants that too. faster and cheaper certification.

and yes it's a stupid plan. but everything noteworthy on Linux was contributed by companies. either when nobody was looking what a programmer was doing, or when some old code get donated, or thanks to stupid plans like this.

so we took it. it's not worse than before, and hopefully mr systemd will get bored counting money at Microsoft now and let the project evolve to something sane.
I don't intend to scapegoat. I'm on the spectrum and I'm grateful for who I am
> In the case of walking the floor in a store it is just aesthetics mostly.

To be clear, when you wrote "aesthetics" do you mean (a) presenteeism (seeing the boss) or (b) cleanliness/tidiness of a retail store?
It can cache in-memory using RocksDBs caching mechanisms.
Possibly unpopular opinion: there was always plenty of room for individuals to have a fulfilling tech career outside of the Bay Area, and those opportunities have if anything grown in recent years. Bay Area folks always talk like all the opportunities are concentrated there but that's never really been true and will just be less and less true as VC money dries up.

I'm sure some of it depends on what you're trying to accomplish in life, but since you didn't specify I'll answer for myself (someone who just wants to do work I enjoy for a really solid upper-middle-class paycheck and retire early)—no, you don't need to be in the Bay Area.

EDIT: To give some concrete numbers, San Jose and San Francisco represented ~180k of the nation's ~1650k software developers in 2023 [0]. That's ~10% of all US-based software developers and ~0.6% of all software developers in the world [1].

[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-software-developers-...
"It's been an over 40 year project"
Would you compare "walking the floor" to doing some PRs or improving test coverage? Neither of these specifically delivery features, but they keep a close eye on the software.
Using the atmosphere to keep you off the ground feels like you have a problem where for every atmospheric molecule bouncing off your bottom pushing you upwards you're incurring a drag cost. My gut says that that means it's never going to work, but guts aren't always very good at engineering.
I've always been a Mac person, so I don't have that context.

I have, however, studied this exact thing. A target need to be at least 48dp in diameter to be accurately clicked the first time. The same is true for a touchscreen. Bigger is better on a touchscreen, whereas there are diminishing returns past 48dp for accuracy in clickable UIs.
and this wasn't a poor company, so $5,000 was nothing in the scheme of things
Oh my.

I love Philip Seymour Hoffman (RIP), but I found Synecdoche, New York to be sooo incredibly anti-interesting in its multiple layers of ironically unironic self-indulgence that I really truly hated the film.

I have never had such a strongly negative reaction to any other movie. I'm having trouble thinking of a somehwat-close second. Maybe Blue Velvet?

If I heard someone else say that, I'd imagine that they had missed something, or just didn't "get it", but I don't think that's the case! :)
We should demand good journalism. The remainder of this article quotes more than a dozen sources. It seems to rise above pure political commentary by a fair chunk.

There is no surprise to me that the chair of a tech privacy panel is opposed to privacy. That seems to be the kind of person that would get such an appointment.
This comment reads as if the only tech jobs that exist are in the Bay Area which is obviously not the case. Most tech jobs in the US are somewhere else.
I've become so much more capable with systemd thanks to ChatGPT4.
Its always so fascinating to see people who have a such a shitty relationship with death. Everyone dies.
schools should not cost $100k/y, that is a fundamental problem
No, it is all about the birthrate. Those countries are poor as "they are having more children than they can feed, yet alone afford to educate."
so you don't understand it...

read on https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

look for the part: "These functions get resolved during startup"
You may be thinking of "So You Want To Abolish Timezones" [1]. It's not specifically about .beat time, but it has a pretty thorough explanation of why a universal time would be terrible (specifically, worse than timezones) for day-to-day communication

1: https://qntm.org/abolish
That's why I prefer the term generative AI over LLM. They're really good at generating things, which is why most creative fields are toast soon IMO.

Facts aren't things you generate, so it will always be caveat emptor.
> The employer doesn't know how much you'll work, if you'll quit early or give up or make mistakes or not bother to show up.

Knowing salary is also useful for existing employees, and in that case (in the US) the employer likely does know all of those things.
You are absolutely right. Although it does depend on who you want to work for, the biggest tech companies are all in The Bay, with some in alternative US tech hubs like Seattle, NYC, or Austin (haha, Texas isn't for everyone).
After the Cultural Revolution: what western classical music means in China
When learning Spanish, I found it very useful to re-read books I had originally read in English in Spanish.

You already know the context so can fill in the gaps. Something about this process felt closer to the natural way you learn language growing up and helped develop my intuition for the languages grammar and vocab. I quickly found myself saying words I didn’t know I knew and using tenses I hadn’t yet started actively learning.

Reading aloud was also great for pronunciation as your mouth/tongue is effectively doing “reps” for kind of sound combinations of the language (which are often different to the sound combinations of your own language)
A deity cannot confer any rights if it doesn't exist.

That nature doesn't in and of itself confer any rights to anyone is rather self-evident from observations of said nature. Even wholesale genocide of species is something that happens routinely in nature over sufficiently long timescales.

Reason cannot confer rights because you can't reason from nothing. You have to pick a set of ethical axioms first to reason from, but the choice of those axioms is largely arbitrarily. There's some amount of biologically-induced restrictions on the practical choices of those axioms (e.g. basic survival of species in a state capable of implementing them, but also various hardwired biological responses such as altruism), but even with those in place there are still infinitely many drastically different options.

The very notion of "natural rights" is fundamentally religious in nature. They don't require deities or worship etc - you can just omit that step as unnecessary, with the rights themselves being the object of faith - but if you're honest about it, it's still a (non-theistic) religion. And there's nothing wrong with that, and I personally embrace such an interpretation as someone who cares deeply about natural rights. But we should be aware that it is a belief, not something objectively following from the very nature of reality.
They made the change several weeks ago. But it still wants a login on mobile.
Nope! Nothing matters anymore! Certainly not the Bay Area.
No, it's not. Nobody said that. Stop screaming nonsense so that someone will argue with you.
When I am inviting people to an event on Facebook, and the list of suggestions includes someone who is dead, sometimes I'll invite them anyway. (This is fresh in my mind because we had a big house party last night, and three of the people I invited were dead. None made an appearance, to my knowledge.)

It feels about the same as inviting someone (alive) who couldn't possibly come, who would feel good to know they were being remembered - it's a little way to say "wish you were here".
We normally call that 'flying'
> It's not a great situation, and I don't see many signs that it's improving.

I think this is a little too pessimistic on the one hand, and very accurate on the other.

On the accurate side: this discipline took one of the most significant hits from the replication crisis, and was one of the most resistant to acknowledging and changing practices. Everyone should keep pushing for open science and preregistered studies to improve quality of the evidence here.

On the optimistic side, there is one potentially huge change that's just starting to crest as opinions improve and acceptance spreads: psychedelics. MDMA for PTSD was a huge win and indicates a potentially large untapped realm of possibilities for altering cognition in positive ways.

There's also hope that neuroscience can start to supplant at least parts of psychology in a few decades.
I would say getting a development environment up and running and running the test suite would usually be a great start. You’ll see pain points almost immediately if you just do those things.
http://man.openbsd.org/sh

That's all you need to read to learn the shell. Learning about the commands requires actual hands-on work with a system, because the commands vary between systems and which ones you use depends on what you're doing. A general "how to be good at *nix command line" class will always be boring rote memorization, because there aren't really any concepts or skills to learn, just details.
What is the best computer software for young kids?
I'm setting up a computer for my 6-year-old and would like to put good software on it. It can be a Mac or PC as I haven't bought it yet.

I'm going to install Microsoft Word because I think it's fun to just type random stuff and mess around with fonts, I remember doing that a lot as a kid.

I'm looking for a good turtle LOGO program that isn't too complicated.

I think I'll install SimCity 2000 as the first game and show him how to use it.

I'll install Google Earth because it's mindboggling how much information is in there.

Any other ideas?
> there was always plenty of room for individuals to have a fulfilling tech career outside of the Bay Area

So plainly true it feels weird to read.
The administration should be taken care of by the distro, but, it isn’t. Fedora Stream might be the solution here.
Did it ever really matter?
If anyone is wondering, the business case for this kind of hardware is by avoiding paying public internet data egress and other fees when transferring data between cloud providers or your own on-prem DC. Some Data center providers have their own fiber networks to enable transfers at rates below what you'd pay to transfer via public.

Seagate offers a similar solution but as a service.. Lyve. Their hardware uses "docking stations" and portable unit with storage.

As others have mentioned, Amazon has a similar device/service but it can be used only for transferring data into Amazon afaik.
Fight Club qnd The Matrix have already been mentioned, and they continue to sink in.

Dakota 38 (documentary about a 330-mile memorial run/ride for the Lincoln-ordered execution of 38 (and later two more) Dakota people on December 26, 1862. The full movie is on YT, and here's an MPR article about it: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/12/23/descendants-of-exec...
This impacted me because I grew up in MN, didn't learn this in school, and it reminded me that indigenous Americans are still around despite efforts by dominant American culture to squash them.
Formation-Flying Spacecraft Could Probe the Solar System for New Physics
> My favorite managers were aware of what the store looked like and could say “tidy up the pillows” or whatever if something needed particular attention. But the manager that came by with attention to detail and an intention to keep me on my toes? Nah, that’s annoying.

I'm confused. What is the difference? It sounds like "eye of the beholder" kind of stuff, like micro-management vs high touch.
Aah ok, thanks for the explanation.
Base16 would have been great.

Base8 would have been workable.

Base10 is just crap. It is quite unfortunate how it is embedded in society now.
Came here to say this. It's definitely not the advantage it used to be for an employee given how commonplace remote is now. Most of the advantages of being there are for founders and investors.
I thought "hallucination" was hilarious when the term was first coined. We already have a word for it: "wrong".

It gives off "blackmail is such an ugly word" vibes. It's WRONG. Maybe it's working as intended, maybe it isn't, but it's WRONG.
OpenTable Backtracks, Won't Add Real Names to Old Reviews
It's definitely too local for HN, but it's a good conversation so I don't care :)

> I didn't know that emergency services weren't told, that's weird.

Sorry if I implied they weren't informed at all, the reporting I read was that they weren't informed with enough certainty or lead time to sufficiently prepare.

And I think this also goes back to what I think is the deeper point that this shouldn't be an hours vs. days thing, but a months to years thing. If the monopoly utility for a region has concluded that wildfire risk has become so high that they need to start doing large-scale preemptive de-energization to safely manage it, for the first time ever, I think that should be highly publicized and closely coordinated with the municipalities and emergency services involved. Again, maybe this all happened and I just missed it, but I have looked and not found anything about it anywhere.

For instance, the stoplight situation was dire. Perhaps some of the stoplights on roads where the speed limit is 65 could be upgraded with a backup power capability, if there were some lead time on this? I dunno, maybe that's totally impractical for an outage that lasts over a day.

But that's another thing... Is it really acceptable for a discretionary outage to last for almost a day after the weather event has cleared up? I understand that it's very challenging to reenergize dead lines, but it's hard to be as sympathetic to that when turning those lines off in the first place was a choice, rather than a result of the weather itself.

> Also, when a live power line goes down, they get a signal that's pretty accurate as to where the break is. When a dead power line goes down and then gets damaged later, they don't know where it is and have to put eyes on every foot of line before they reenergize to make sure it's safe.

To me, this reads like a very good reason to not de-energize lines unless it absolutely cannot be avoided! And that's the thing, at the bottom of all of this, I feel like, I've lived here for decades, and it will be difficult to convince me that "preemptive power outages absolutely could not be avoided" was true for this storm, but not of any of the others like it that I have experienced in that time.
Just wanted to add, though obliquely relevant to the OP, I have daily driven Qubes OS 4.1 for at least 12 months now and have been thoroughly impressed. It actually makes me feel safe[r] in my online computing today. 8chan or Discord -delivered 0-day blowing up in one of the respective qubes should not lead to exfiltration of my Robinhood credentials, my aunt's baking recipes, or my super secret hacker darknet forum libressl key. :^)

You want a beefy system. If you want to pass GPUs through, you need more than one in the system. CPU core count is important yes, but I cannot emphasize enough: RAM RAM RAM. Yes I do have automatic1111 running with GPU in my Qubes tower. Yes I can spin up a WinServ2022 Datacenter qube for Siemens NX 10, with full GPU support.
Blood tests for diagnosing dementia to be offered in UK trial
Reminds me of this book: Dogs that Know When their Owners are Coming Home https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/dogs-tha...
As long as we use base 10 numerals, using a base 10 system is going to make things real easy.
what about 12, or 60?
I see it. Thanks very much! That could certainly be clearer...
> Also, 10% is actually a pretty modest price to pay for increased software robustness and modularity. We're paying more than that for speculative execution vulnerability anyway.

it's a completely crazy price to pay in a field where people routinely spend thousands of $$$ for <5% improvement

> Do you run your fancy low-level audio processing pipeline with "mitigations=off" in /proc/cmdline?

obviously yes! along with power saving CPU C-states or anything throttling-related disabled, specific real-time IRQ and threading configuration (e.g. making sure that the sound card interrupts aren't going to happen on a core handling network interrupts) and two dozen other optimizations (which do make a difference, I regularly set-up new machines from scratch for shows, art installations, etc. and always do this setup step-by-step to see if things are finally "good enough" and they always make a difference, in really a make-or-break sense).
Base 12 with a couple of extra numerals would be really fantastic. Don't see it happening unfortunately.
Base 60 (like the Babylonians and Sumerians) is actually a terrific base for daily use. Base 12 is similarly good, and more functional.

60 and 12 are both divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, which are some of the most common divisions that people need in daily life.

Base 60 has the additional advantage of being divisible by 5, 10, 15, and 20 as well. Note that we still use bases 60 and 24 for our timekeeping, and it's extremely convenient to be able to divide up the hour or day evenly into these chunks.

The metric system is great for scientific purposes, but the properties that make it good for scientific use are not terribly relevant to household or daily use.
Or, alternatively, your local ISP did not invest enough into the infrastructure and created a network that can only serve 10-20% of the population with the promised high speeds (25Mbps). Therefore, when everybody comes from work and try to use the internet at the same time, there is not enough bandwidth for everyone so it just becomes unusable.
What if some people would be happy to pay more for priority, and others would be happy to receive cheaper non priority service.

These are very real things. Regulating them out of existence makes no sense.
have you seen systemd-analyze?