skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a TV signal, the brightness is encoded using certain signal levels. So you'll have a set black point, and white point representing the darkest and brightest values to be displayed respectively.

If you send a signal outside those bands, it's known as a superblack/superwhite. The "blanking interval" (when the beam is meant to start at the top of the screen again) has a signal blacker than any black that would show up in a broadcast. If that were not the case, a black screen in a show would mess up your TVs tracking.
100%. People are responsible for an ever-increasing amount of things; people will focus on business priorities and stuff that is working will be left the hell alone. As long as the bills are manageable and the business pays - the lights will be kept on forever. Passing increasing support costs to customers realigns interests between customer and provider without danger of user impact.

And for Kubernetes, honestly, charging 6x for extended support is probably a bargain, considering the pace of change and difficulty of hiring engineers for unsexy maintenance work.
A Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up
Persistent shortage of growth hormone frustrates parents and clinicians
Ask HN: Why there is no autosuggest by default in windows and Mac?
Have you guys felt the need to have autosuggest in windows and mac. I sometimes feel frustrated typing the same thing again and again. The autosuggest feature the way we have on the code editors should be present in every field.

Do you use anything for autosuggest?
Yeah, agreed, mentally capable people would be less likely to want to do repetitive and non stimulating work.
Turns out LLMs are really good at writing fuzzers

https://verse.systems/blog/post/2024-03-09-using-llms-to-gen...

https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/research/llms/target_gener...
Training yes.

Doubling your parameter count past that ratio will yield a better model than doubling your data and is much easier and cheaper to do.
Leofs – S3 / NFS object store
Going to be expensive to equip every area with anti-drone systems.
Anyone using this? The last update is years old and the packages are for operating systems that are approaching their EOL.
It's hard to explain an animistic force of nature to another human without using words that imply agency. It feels like our language and our ways of thinking are hard-wired to see everything through that lens because we have agency. It's like a fish trying to imagine what it's like to be outside of water.
I wouldn't have thought so, but it's hard to predict how people are going to viscerally react!

I wouldn't have anticipated people finding the rotation/double-jointedness creepy, but it does seem to be a fairly widespread reaction.
Calibration very often makes the most difference in analytical results.

This sounds like a pH meter scenario.

Where the instrument is subject to more drift because it is a community device, and undergrads doing identical experiments had never gotten very ideal results. The variation was accepted for "as good as it gets" and the powers that be were not prepared for an outlier that goes the extra mile for quality.

Sometimes the most important lesson is that readings which are assumed to be accurate enough to calculate consistency (but are not fully verified) can often have more inherent variation than dissimilar bench techniques.
Eh, margins aren't that low on cheap Chinese gear with questionable IP rights. Not so low that they would develop an in house solution to a .02 cent market deficiency.

I know you're jesting the jester, but Chinese manufacturing is on par with "the west" in terms of making money hand over fist on selling plastic junk, with minimal risk due to overpricing
Still seems you would save a bundle if you had to pay to promote the data from archival to hot and then do the free exodus.
That Sneaky Exponential–Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community Building
Tiny missiles which are practically cost-free compared to conventional weapons, difficult to track by your enemies, and not just difficult to take out of the air, but oftentimes several orders of magnitude more expensive than the drone itself. Part of their effectiveness lies in the economic asymmetry involved.
Bullets are cheap, but an AI airplane with a gun is far more expensive than almost any fire and forget missile since it is effectively a larger, more complex, more expensive fire and forget missile.
In response to your comment, it's important to clarify several misconceptions about evolutionary biology and the synthetic theory of evolution. This theory is not a scam nor inherently atheistic; rather, it's a scientific framework that integrates genetics with Darwin's theory of natural selection to explain biological diversity.

First, evolution, through natural selection and genetic variation, is indeed capable of innovation. Complex structures and functions can arise incrementally over time. Features that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely to be passed on to subsequent generations, gradually leading to complex adaptations.

The analogy of DNA needing to be like a program, CDROM, reader, and printer all in one cell is an oversimplification that misunderstands molecular biology. DNA replication, transcription, and translation are complex processes facilitated by a variety of proteins and enzymes, which themselves evolved.

Regarding Prof. Michael Behe's arguments in "Darwin's Black Box," while thought-provoking, they have been widely critiqued and refuted in the scientific community. Behe's concept of "irreducible complexity" has been shown not to preclude evolutionary origins, as numerous studies have demonstrated how complex biochemical systems can evolve from simpler precursors through natural processes.

Lastly, it's critical to approach scientific topics with an understanding based on evidence and consensus among experts. While there are always unanswered questions in science, the theory of evolution remains one of the most robust and universally accepted scientific theories, based on overwhelming evidence across different fields including genetics, paleontology, and molecular biology.
And yet, Germany leads the Europe now. I believe there is no need to recount the horrors they were responsible for, in their own country and other European countries. I don't think what USSR did to their own people is far worse than what Germany did to 6 million jewish people, enough to treat Germany better than the Russians, who in fact suffered at the hands of the Bolsheviks.
This is a beyond simplistic view of how any of this works. The reason Khmer Rouge wasn't ruled to have committed a genocide is purely political. It had nothing to do with their actual actions and everything to do with who supported them and those interests being defended.

Israel being accused of genocide is similarly a political ploy by those who hate Jews and the ruling of genocide is a foregone conclusion because it serves those who hate Jews (aka most of Europe, the ME, and Africa). You wishing for genocide doesn't make it so, instead of making baseless hate filled claims why not back them up with actual facts? Where's the intent? Where's the conduct? Promising to kill all of Hamas isn't genocide just like promising to kill all of the nazis wasn't genocide, just like promising to kill all of ISIS isn't genocide. If you take all the actual actions that Israel has taken as well as all the words spoken by the people actually in power, you don't have genocide, instead you have a war started by a genocidal death cult, and peace-loving people attempting to defend themselves while preserving as much life as possible, even as those very people make every attempt to kill more Jews.
If they had quotas, they were made up internally. But more likely they were just lying to you, or the person who sent the email was twisting the truth. I don't think anyone but you thought of the "maybe you should change gender" bit. They just didn't want to hire you, personally.
The tallest person in the world will say that only normal and short people exist.
Yes, in a way that's likely specifically relevant to the root comment in this chain. However, that same root comment is not super-relevant to the posted article.
Artificial intelligence is being used to create child abuse material
My biggest issue is 49$ for... a UI like this isn't homebrew itself lol, its just a GUI for something you rarely need to interact for 49$ really?
It means very nearly, but I also hate how it means that, because as a foreigner it just sounds if somebody "they did all, but the work they were assigned", it means they went in completely different direction or slacked off to me.
'display: table' wasn't consistently supported and '<table>' for layout caused issues for screen readers because they (rightfully) expected content that's tabular in nature.
> The only way to actually get it perfect is to do browser and OS detection and then hand-code a bunch of manual offsets that you keep up to date. And obviously that would be insane.

That's exactly what you do. And that's what I'm saying: the view that the product we're making is not worth doing one-off fixes for, that we need one solution for everything. No other trade has this delusion about everything being a perfect system you can control from a single commanding height (a component library, for example). Even other forms of programming, like game development, don't pretend you can avoid doing one-offs. Just web development, as far as I can tell.
The thing about baking though is that much greater precision is needed. I can usually just eyeball stuff for stovetop cooking, but doing the same with baking can give wildly bad results.
I was one of the first hires on the Cyc project when it started at MCC and was at first responsible for the decision to abandon the Interlisp-D implementation and replace it with one I wrote on Symbolics machines.

Yes, back then one person could write the code base

A coworker of mine who used to work at Symbolics told me that this was endemic with Lisp development back in the day. Some customers would think there was a team of 300 doing the OS software at Symbolics. It was just 10 programmers.
Honestly, there might be some value in a simple (free) desktop/mobile GUI wrapper that just deploys a “your web presence” container somewhere.

The often maligned “setup wizard” UI a lot of us remember from not so long ago actually was kinda neat in many ways.

Run “I want a website app” and click through a few simple menus that ask you questions to get you set up with a domain, email, hosting, etc. The defaults would be a selection of ideally smaller/non-FAANG providers, with some power-user menu or some shit gated behind a checkbox.

Then it just saves a document with your new CMS/etc logins, and away you go.

I guess you could even make a few bucks off it by using referral codes or whatever to fund development cost.
THIS! 49$ for a frontend UI for an app thats mostly used with 1 off install/upgrade commands?
Wouldn't that mean the insurer would need to be able to point to a government that has caused the blast?
If it's effective, does it matter if it's placebo?

Especially given low cost and low risk.
Aren't your examples also true about immature fields?

Very few doctors have every come up with drugs.

Few of the early pilots after the Wrights designed their own airplanes, but airplanes were certainly not mature by 1912.

When did home building change from an immature field to a mature one? I struggle to think of when most homeowners built houses.

Saying "IT staff can't generally write software" sounds like saying "sailors can't generally pilot a large vessel" - both are specialized abilities in a larger field.
That journey of orders of magnitude is the journey of all life on Earth from its genesis to today.
What about stock options for many years forward, to incentivize good performance (good behaviour)
I'm not sure it is more leisurely than other countries, and the winters are hard due to lack of sunlight. OTOH Brussels is very international, english is perfectly fine for work and life. It is also quite a fun city if you like the vibe and make the effort to dig under the surface. Antwerp / Ghent are less international and speaking dutch would be more important.
Hardly.

Florida has a lot of overregulation and tedious laws too, which I take as a grim reminder of how much "libertarian freedom" has eroded as an ideal (which, if it existed anywhere, it existed and exists most in America).
> all thread executions are serialized so that there is effectively only one CPU

This definitely isn't intended for general-purpose sandboxing. It's an interesting tool for analysis and debugging.
My mom always used to say "if you want to be happy, get a lobotomy"
Except for the two nuclear bombs dropped on cities?
The most Greek a chemistry student in the states would get is from frat parties
$ cargo update

+8,967 −7,331
This is America; Owning a real gun should not be an acceptable reason to be shot by the police. What the fuck is the point of all the aggressive defense around the second amendment if the second a cop sees a gun they are free to murder people?

Cops are not judge, jury, and executioners, and in fact have zero authority to hand down punishment. Being shot for holding a gun is absurd.
I will keep my mortgage forever but not the house. The goal is to carry the mortgage forward to the next house in the most remote and rural location I can find that still has residential fiber.
It is a term coined by the Air Force Research Laboratory, as an umbrella term for industrial control systems, robotics, avionics, and generally any system that primarily consists of software and the heavy machinery it operates.

The term is favored by DARPA over any of its alternatives; seL4 received DARPA funding, and was adopted by DARPA projects, so it's not surprising that they'd use the associated term. It's no worse than other terms in the embedded systems world, and communicates the intended use cases to the most likely users.

Basically, if TrendMicro builds you a bunch of infrastructure to optimize the power grid, it will be described as consisting of Intelligent Electronic Devices. If Collins Aerospace builds the exact same infrastructure, it will be described as consisting of Cyber Physical Systems.
I can’t see this problem going away any time soon.
Nothing will compare to standing in a book store as a teen reading Mother Earth Mother Board, published in wired, while my Coke got warm.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
> PUBG as the first Battle Royale and catalyst for Fortnite?

As I recall, H1Z1 actually came out before PUBG (though it has since faded into obscurity). A quick search on Wikipedia seems to back that timeline[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds#Developmen...
Show HN: iceoryx2 v0.3.0 released – zero-copy IPC middleware in Rust
Today, we released iceoryx2 v0.3.0. It comes with some cool new features, bug fixes, and additional examples; see this here https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/releases/tag/v0....

Have a lot of fun with it.

For those of you who do not know iceoryx yet, it is a library written in Rust that makes platform-agnostic inter-process communication as easy and fast as possible using zero-copy techniques. It runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD (x64, aarch64) but not yet on a toaster ;).

You can check out our roadmap here: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/blob/main/ROADMA...

To summarize our work for Q2.2024, we want to add a C binding and introduce decentralized resource monitoring so that the resources of crashed applications no longer need to be cleaned up manually.

We are always happy to receive feedback. So, if we forgot an important feature or you want to see something reprioritized - don't hesitate and get in touch with us.
> He’s a mid dude with gross feet

Does he sell feet pics :) ?
Reaction Wheel Force Feedback for VR
clickbait title.
Formal methods aren't "testing".

As you say, though, exhaustive testing is sometimes possible.
Agreed. I would imagine the previous approach of forced upgrades ended up burning lots of customers in worse ways than just their pocketbook.
Uses an archive of 267 NYT Connections puzzles (try them yourself if unfamiliar). Three different 0-shot prompts, words in both lowercase and uppercase. One attempt per puzzle. Partial credit is awarded if not all lines are solved correctly. Top humans get near 100.

Most other benchmarks don't clearly show the difference between the top models and the rest. This may be because they are older and have been over-optimized or perhaps because they are just easier.
All the red states (except Texas) are a Federal drain generally, not just Florida.
The opposite - I don't use anything for autocomplete.
Except, I suppose, filename completion in the Terminal shell.
It is not, my account password did not work and I had to create a new one.

DNA is a four state bits program.
Can you tell us how random mutations on a computer program (DNA) can create new proteins and new functionnal organs. What happens if you do so on a Windows or Linux program ?
If the world warms back to the saurian sauna for a few millions of years, maybe mammals will not be on top of the game anymore. Time to welcome our new avian overlords. Maybe they'll evolve from crows. They're more optimal in so many ways anyway. Too bad they won't have coal, oil or natural gas reserves to build an early industrial civilization on.
> If the US goverment give billions of dollars todday to Lockheed Martian or Boeing to help complete against foreign airplane makers it is going to effect that ability of Americans to start new airplane companies in US to no

As per the WTO, they do this already. And then both the US government and Boeing have the absolute gall to complain that Airbus also gets subsidies from European governments, or that Quebec invested into Bombardier and gave them loans.
You can make "national headlines" by doing stupid shit too. Just go out and shoot a bunch of people. Boom! National headlines.
Keeping a 1966 Ford Galaxy running on a cold day could be challenging. You could warm it up for a while but at some point you'd need to get moving and the pumping to get it moving would start. Then came stop lights--couldn't keep the engine revving while slowing and at the light (well, you could shift into neutral but that was more of a pain than it was worth). Then pump to get it moving again. This was all in the city--if you got to go on the freeway or a country road that morning, things were much easier. It did warm up eventually, of course.
I can drop a cluster bomb filled with drones into a city, army base, factory and they kill everyone with precision and are collectively almost unstoppable.

Yes flying a large drone a few hundred miles over enemy fortifications is quite stoppable compared to a hypersonic missile. So, don’t do that.
Exactly. Until human desires are saturated, there will always be humans who desire more and will take it if they have the force to do so.

And we have no evidence thus far that human desires can be saturated.
I bet we could do clean water, food, and battery powered lighting for night time though.
Thenewboston is back (Tutorial on LLM memory) [video]
What intent? Have you asked the author what their intent is? The linked Twitter post does not have a knife in sight. What is wrong with using the CrabLang logo when he was using valid CrabLang?
Our boss told us to camp in tents when we travel for business (2020)
> It will shoot you down from 40km away with a fire-and-forget weapon.

It's already happening in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...
What danah boyd told us about AI and ethics
Its not that amazing. The reality is that this is simply your personal taste that the waste majority of humanity wouldn't agree with you on.

Frankly, almost nobody in the world uses that type of Desktop Environment anymore. So if its so great and perfect and superior, you would think it would be more popular.
IDK if you know this, but unproven theories are gospel around here.
Formal methods catch a different class of problem from other tests and so are worth it. However they cannot catch everything. The classic example: "midpoint = (high + low) / 2" is easy to formally prove correct - but in fact it isn't correct because high + low could overflow.
I was diagnosed with cluster migraines, but I'm not convinced at that diagnosis, it didn't seem that severe. I used to get a migraine or two a month, and in allergy season it was even worse. My migraine were pure pain, I would literally think I was going to die, but I also knew I had been through it enough times that I would be okay. I'd also get full on allergy attacks (relevant in a minute), constant nose running - I'd stuff my nose with toilet paper and sit miserably, unable to focus or think clearly.

Then I moved to another state, and haven't had an allergy attack since, and my migraines have mostly gone away. I get probably one real migraine a year, with smaller headaches maybe once a month. Nothing debilitating like before though. For me I think it was all allergy related, but specific allergies. The state I moved to is rated as having the same allergy levels, but yet I don't have these attacks or as many migraines anymore.
Show HN: It's API doc generator like Stripe, direct from back end (free)
Hey guys,
THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU IF YOU LIKE TO HAVE STRIPE-LIKE DOC FOR YOUR API & SDKs (FREE)...or if you have developers who'd rather wrestle with a grizzly bear than write another line of documentation!

Creating documentation for APIs and SDKs that is developer-friendly can be a nightmare !! I’d been searching for a service that provides output like Stripe and found nothing. So, I've written code to generate real-time API documentation directly from backend. In the coming weeks, I will add an AI completion feature (GPT-4) to it. This will be a ZERO-EMPLOYEE-NEEDED solution for our extensive backend APIs, which include over 1000 endpoints for storefront, backoffice, partner panel, vendors, connect OS, etc.

I’m considering making this an open-source project that could be used freely by anyone. I have just one request: if you could help introduce another open-source project, https://github.com/selldone/storefront, to others, and it gains more than 1,000 stars , I will do it and publish entire code for free on Github!

Sample (v1) doc output:

https://selldone.com/documents/papi/shops:list

Thanks,
We need better marketing names than mini, plus and pro. Something like Big Gulp, Big Gulp Jr.
'I've Got a Bridge to Sell You': The Con Artist Who Peddled the Brooklyn Bridge
How would reverse amazon know to price your junk item extremely high? Seems like you're just losing a whole bunch of cocaine.

How would reverse amazon know to ship a potential illegal firearm buyer your teddy bear versus one of the others in comparable condition they have in stock? I imagine you could set up some elaborate code to make side arrangements, like someone agrees to wire you money and you communicate to them a very specific pattern of damage to look for in a used item so they know which one to buy, but at that point why not sell direct?

And people claiming not to have received items they purchased is a common problem to all online sales platforms.
a desire not to create a new underclass, with some able to pay to maintain their rights and the others effectively losing them because they can't afford other options

this is the key argument why pay for privacy is a problem. unfortunately, given that for now we must assume that all ads are tracking people and are thus violating users privacy, this means that any ad supported service that offers ad free service against pay including youtube and netfix are in violation of this.

solving this will be difficult. we need some way to ensure that ads are non-tracking. but i don't know how to do that.
> This really needs to be made illegal already. All prices should be public and you should not be allowed to charge different customers different prices for the same automated service.

Why? Different people get different prices for products all the time. It's fundamental to a functioning free market.