skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was even more color correction happening then - cameras were worse and more analog! It just was not being controlled from offsite, instead there was a dedicated room and engineer in the broadcast truck doing camera configuration + color correction.

The usual technique was to start by holding up a color card on the stage/floor then use a vectorscope[1] and get all the dots to line up in the right place. Then with a waveform monitor for exposure. During the event, there would be fine tuning by eye, or as things drifted out of line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorscope#/media/File:PAL_Ve...

PS: You can also see modern vectorscope / waveform monitor images in this photo from the cyanview blog. Look for the black and white X-ray looking things on the screens.
https://www.cyanview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221006...
>That must be 7500 netto and should be affordable to families where both partners work and earn average salary.

How is 7500 netto affordable to average families when the yearly income per person is around 55k gross which is around 2900 netto per person so just below 6000 per household?

>Do what?

How do you get a rent controlled apartment. Given the shortage in housing. I thought that was clear from the context.
Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
This title really sounded like it was going to be about Suno.
You don’t need to impose R&D to them. You can tax them and funnel that money into R&D labs/companies tackling recycling.
The administration still needs the support of the people.
Things like this and the Putin appeasement will reduce that.

The rising costs do the rest
QubesOS, Genode, QNX if you manage to run a desktop...
I guess this is my actual problem with it, or at least the way that it's been received. It implicitly posits that programming is a collection of gadgets. A gadget is a fine thing, when you have decided _what_ you want to do and are looking for a way to do it.

But a gadget-centric process, whether is patterns or microservices, constrains the design space to assemblies. and that a really small and clunky part of the space.
You set your own display name on Signal. You can also set "nicknames" for each of your contacts, but they're local to your account. If a nickname is set, it overrides the display name in most places in the UI.
I was expecting some analysis on the economic impact of losing a whole class of jobs, and decimating a load of others which causes the wages to drop.

Thats the way it'll change the world, think manufacturing job losses in Europe/america. in the late 90s/00
Another annoyance: some underwear brands put a booklet of long labels exactly between the cheeks.
Not yet, but coming soon.
I live in Europe and moved here from California but so long as you can triple your pay by moving to America Europe will be a laggard. Retire at 40 or work until 70?

Not to mention that millionaires in their thirties and forties are the raw material startups are made of (who else can justify the opportunity cost?) and Europe lacks that, badly. Meanwhile one in fifteen Americans are millionaires. Which group is more likely to have the freedom to take risks?
30 odd years ago, part of my role was to colour balance cameras in a studio environment. We didn’t need computers - but at most there were only 5 cameras :)
> There was a moment when google introduced autocomplete and it was a game changer.

I remember.... I turned it off immediately.
LOL the random Indonesian section. That's incredible and so strange.
I agree, I think he overstated the desire to add fluff. It's true that LLMs now add a bunch of fluff by default, but I imagine that will get better.

I actually do the reverse of the example the author gave (bullet points - fluff). I give train of thought to an LLM about what I want to communicate and instruct it to use no BS and make it tight and it gives me a well structure short message with clear action items logically structured. It adds the minimal amount of fluff (e.g. "Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today") but it makes it a lot easier for the other person to comprehend, without using an LLM.
Great, so now instead of spending 8 hours writing code, I spend 8 hours "steering" an AI to write the same code. What a fucking win (for the AI companies and no one else.)
To be honest, the whole security clearance process has always seemed (to me at least) much closer to McCarthyism/security theater than an effective way to prevent infiltration by actual spies and such.
How are instances started and managed? Via some API?

Can you give a Wasm Component binary the capability to execute a tree of connected Wasm Components, delegate capabilities, and manage their life cycle?
I don't think the final point about programming languages makes much sense.

In the overall software development process, lots of people contribute different things to create the product.

The job of the software developer is to bring the amount of ambiguity in the specification to zero, because computers can only run a program with zero ambiguity.

There have been lots of high level programming languages that abstract away certain things or give the programmer control over those things. The real thing that you want to do is pick a programming language that allows you control over the things you care about. Do you care about when memory is allocated and deallocated? Do you care about how hardware is used (especially GPUs and ML accelerators) or do you want the hardware completely abstracted away? Do you care more about runtime or dev iteration time? Does your program need to exist in a certain tech context?

There's no programming language that will let people who care about different things deal with them or not deal with them.
With Tomas Mikolov in it? Holy cow! :)
WiFi is convenient and (usually) cheaper (esp if it's a retrofit), but not deterministic. And less 'cluttered' I guess, if that's your pet peeve. All sorts of things can muck around with Wifi speed, reliability and latency and most people have little or no ability to troubleshoot it effectively.

I retrofit wired my house[1] about 20 years ago; I only have had a small handful of issues with it in that time (all basically mechanical fatigue of jacks). If I have speed, latency or connectivity issues, I can be reasonably sure the last thing I have to debug is the physical network.

[1] Copper, not fiber, but no runs are over 50m. Works to 10G so far. I used a Leviton residential structured wiring system (network, coax and phone at the time; the last 2 long since obsoleted). I did a lot myself since I'd done enough quality time in datacenters to be adequately proficient with low voltage Cat5. Not cheap but not extravagant.
I think we agree actually. I’m just tired of seeing European workers getting paid dirt.
Movies done behind iron curtain, despite (and sometimes thanks to) everpresent censorship and oversight ended up with pretty deep existential messages that avoided usually not that brilliant censors.

Bear in mind that most artists abhored oppression even in toughest times, they are all free spirits after all, and I can imagine also in current russia there must be at least large pockets of similar folks.

Of course there were more shallow mainstream things more or less full of propaganda, and many actors overlapped between 2 categories. If one was clearly in critical camp then no work in industry, either some menial soul breaking job, prison or kicking out
In my opinion the existence of No true Scotsman posts like this arguing about random concepts is endemic to OOP and a symptom of the lack of formalization inherent in that approach. The GoF book just piles more confusing noise on top of it.

I soured on OOP decades ago exactly because I grew tired of reading dogmatic posts like this or bike-shedding how to do DI or whatever The Right Way with my colleagues. At the end of it I never ended up feeling like I'd ever grasped the core of what OOP actually is, because I don't think there's actually anything there. Maybe there are coherent threads that can tie together languages like Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++, Java, Self, Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc. etc. but I don't think it's a nebulous concept called "OOP," and I think there's more value in talking about how specific features can be used in these different languages on a case-by-case basis than trying to hone in on some coherent, generalized notion of "delegation in OOP."

To be fair the same could be said for FP, but at least with functional programming I can latch onto some core concepts and assert a coherent, formalize-able definition that makes sense across languages, to a greater or lesser extent (again, with debatable value given my last point in the paragraph above). "OOP" as a concept just makes me throw my hands up in the air.
Or: An important thing that was taught to me on the first day of my C++ class was ‘no project was ever late because the typing took too long’.
I write 1000 lines of code per second, bud. It's called ctrl+c and ctrl+v. In all seriousness, with autocompletion, snippets, and AI, I don't think you can measure this accurately in the way you're doing it.
BigQuery charged us $10k in 22 seconds for a query with LIMIT 1M – here's why
Any reason why you're calling out a need for a framework to be js/ts based? There's plenty of python frameworks in active development, some of which have js bindings/libraries.
Yes, this. I was about to post my own comment and will instead reply and upvote yours.

This strikes me as setting the conversation to be whether it's 'secure', and can then everyone can discuss that part - instead of the fact that's not where or how that conversation should have been happening at all.
These are not set in stone and if a dream company comes may be overruled, but:

At least one or more of the following MUST be true:

- Take home takes 2 hours or less

- Take home has a posterior instance that will take place with a human being in order to allow me to defend/discuss/expand the take home. Of course this assumes I eliver something that is not just the word "farts" in a txt.

- Take home is monetarily compensated.

These are heuristics that do not imply I am an impressive IC or something like that. It's just self defense.
Let's discuss this spot on the wall while the building we are in is being excavated from beneath.

Yes, AI is going to change the world, not as anyone seems to be discussing. We've created interactive logical assistance for everything and anything intellectual anyone does. The ramifications of this are ambitions requiring intellectual difficulty are going to skyrocket. This is thanks to the magical thinking that is already rampant is all aspects of society. Net result will be significantly higher demands on anyone with a knowledge based career, after all "you have AI assistance now, why are you not 10X?"

We will all be forced to become adept using AI, and not just casually. We will be required to operate on our intellectual edge, or we will find ourselves unemployable.
What's next for ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and other apps
Irregular status update about reproducible Debian live ISO images
Only if that AI does not hallucinate, otherwise it would be useless.
Give it time, this will be solved.

I envisioned that one day, a framework will be created that can persist LLM current state on disk and then "fragments of memories" can be paged in and out into memory.

When that happened, LLM will be able to remember everything.
I built a block foundation and above that wood.

If all you have is trees though you can build a permanent treated wood foundation.
Yep this exactly. If I ever feel that I'm solving a puzzle at work, I stop and ask for more information. Once my task is clear, I start working on it. Learned long ago that puzzle solving is almost always solving the wrong problem and wasting time.
You're fighting a losing battle, I'm afraid. Instead of trying to justify your position, explain to me and my fellow voters what the alternative third option was when we were presented with Kamala or Trump?

We don't like this any more than you do, yet you point the finger and offer no solutions, plan, or course of action. Your obstinacy and that of people like you served only to hand the election to those you so vehemently stand against, but rather than admit your own part in this mess we are now in, you chose to attack the people who made a rational choice to vote for Kamala given the circumstance.

I'm sorry, but you're part of the problem, here. Accept that and heal.
> I guess I'm just one of the old-fashioned folks who think that just because something was difficult to write, it shouldn't be difficult to read. Code clarity wins over brevity in my book any day.

I treat template metaprogramming in C++ like macro code in Lisp - it's not something I use all the time and it's often more complicated than every day code, but used well it make the rest of the codebase simpler to understand.

The most complicated template I've written recently wraps a vendor's clunky old iterator classes (unrelated to STL) with .Current() and .Next() methods, and lets us use them in C++11's `for (auto thing : VendorIterator)` loops. In the vendor's defense, they started writing the library in the early 90s, before the STL was formally part of C++ - though it would be nice if they provided a template like this themselves.

In any case, the template greatly simplifies using the iterators (5 lines of code goes to 1) in dozens of places, at the cost of a complicated template that rarely needs to change. To me it's a fair tradeoff.
It also doesn't adhere to gov't record keeping policies / laws.
As I said there are universal rules that human language processing follows (like hierarchical structure dependence); you can't have arbitrary syntax/grammars. It's true that science hasn't solved the main puzzles about how to characterize these rules.

The fact that statistical models are better predictors than the-"true"-characterization-that-we-haven't-figured-out-yet is completely irrelevant, just as it would be irrelevant if your deep-learning net was a better predictor of the weather: it wouldn't imply that the weather doesn't follow rules in physics, regardless of whether we knew what those rules were.
Hey. Didn't realize that it was like that child toy that looked like a clear double-lined liquid-gel-filled with sparklers where you squeeze one end and it escapes out bigger at the other end.

Thanks! Good catch.
Yes, thank you for saying so. I agree. And that's what should be being discussed everywhere.
Otter's new AI agent can speak up in meetings
Site Is a Home
Signal responded to this directly on X: https://x.com/signalapp/status/1904666111989166408
Nature-inspired 3D-printing method shoots up faster than bamboo
And as someone who is interested in the discussion and doesn't have time to read the article, I appreciate it.
My neighbors are fucking assholes. We don't shop at the same stores, or see each other at the park, we don't have kids, or work on cars. One neighbor doesn't like me because they don't like dogs and I have a dog. The other is just a mean, bitter, old lady. Not everyone is nice and friendly dude.
The Flying Circus of Physics – Jearl Walker
The Flying Circus of Physics is a book about curious events and effects of the everyday world. This site is an extension of the book featuring several more references and discussions about the topics in the book. I learned some many fascinating aspects of physics and its application to understand several phenomenon around which are usually not seen from a scientific perspective.
There was never really a strong European identity, but Trump/Vance/Musk single-handedly managed to create a pan-European, anti-American movement with commercial implications, e.g., buyeuropean.io
Same, I've got a few Saddleback pieces including a wallet and it's seen some abuse over the past decade but it's supple and strong with no signs of wearing down anytime soon.

Who knows if their claim of "They'll fight over it when you're dead" is true or not, but can confirm the quality will easily outlast 10 years with no problem.
>Also, the darn thing hurts my back if I leave it in my back pocket while driving/sitting.

Not that anyone has ever had to worry about pickpockets in my generation (even criminals aren't as skilled as they were in eras past, I guess), but I've always carried it in a front pocket. I'd lose it a dozen times a month otherwise.

>My question is; Why even have a "wallet" at this point?

There are things I keep in it I need. It's been a long while since anyone mistook me for a teenager.
>The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it, especially because the operation had not even started yet, according to a US defense official familiar with the operation and another source who was briefed on it afterward.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publish...
Sprint vs. Shape Up vs. Kanban
I'd lead with durability and streaming, back it with benchmarks, and suggest some use cases (e-commerce, etc).

So I might have titled this submission "A durable, streaming agent framework".
My college advisor was fond of the term "rubber hose cryptanalysis"
But that wasn't the statement. The statement was that "absent pleasures are not bad." Whether something is good or bad is a value judgement, just like "procreation is bad" (or good).

I countered with another value judgment: "pleasurable existence is good." This seems trivially true as well but Benatar ignores it. Whether the good of existence outweighs the bad of existence is yet another value judgment, and also depends on particular experience.
The standardization of routing is the main selling point to me. react-router is such a mess at scale
We also use a fork of Tortoise, wrapped in some easier to integrate code (for our use case).

At first, we used an erlang lib emqtt, but it was left unmaintained and then removed from github. We had to switch to something else. Not completely happy, but it works for us
It really really isn't.
The state of the front-end and full-stack job market
Escher's Art and Computer Science
Democracy without illusions: a realist view
That's not true, the Moro experiments show they use different capacities as do similar experiments on people who have certain severe cognitive deficiencies that don't impact language processing (e.g. the subject "Chris")
It’s something so ridiculous it’s difficult to even parody. I guess the real-world equivalent is ordering a single microSD card and getting it in a plastic case, in a blister pack, in an envelope, in a mailer, inside a Jiffy bag that doesn’t fit through your letter box because none of the middlemen cared enough to think about it.
I don't mean to be marketting for them, but the CloudFlare Turnstile "captcha alternative" (Similar to Google ReCaptcha and others) has been working for me. it's the only thing that has of what I tried so far (rate-limiting IPs, fail2ban, etc -- their IPs are just too distributed).

It doesn't make the user do a puzzle, it's the kind that either works entirely automatically or in some cases asks the user to tick a checkbox. You have probably seen it proliferating across the internet in your personal use becuase, well, see above.
It’s easier to pull new cables in a conduit through an empty cell of innerduct than it is to pull a new cable through a conduit with existing cables already in it. It tends to be used for fiber conduits.

Here’s a product I’ve purchased for my electricians to install: https://www.maxcell.us/shared-downloads/cp145_MaxCell_Edge_D...
- faster compile times

- faster compile times

- faster compile times

- I want sbt+scalatest (the blessed build tool/test framework) to not leak memory constantly (https://olegych.github.io/blog/sbt-fork.html this is an issue I specifically run into)

- I want useful documentation when I ctrlclick into settingKeys in build.sbt

- I want Intellij to not bug out when you pass explicitly the implicit arguments required by a function that uses both context bounds and implicits

- I want intellij to always agree with the scala compiler
Haha, I appreciate the math, fair enough. We can change the caveat to "it's a project you worked on every weekend for a few months" if that helps. The point still stands that 15k LOC doesn't represent the type of codebases worked on by companies that employ multiple full-time software developers, much less long-lived enterprise codebases (which is Fowler's famed area of expertise, ironically).
minimal setup. Anything python requires the host machine to have the correct python version, pm and libs installed (which is far more than normal users can do), or have it compiled within a virtual python executable (big!).

Web-native technology requires minimal setup as it can basically run in any browser (or electron) as is.
Ummm, now that I had time to visualize at macroeconomic level, simple cap at each middleman's transactional behooves the supply chain to conspire on price-fixing just to feed and assist all the middlemen down the line to the patient, as you've asserted.

To introduce inter-middleman fighting ensues between favorable price and lower price...

Fixing at 1% total for each step along the way doesn't work because one can just add even more middlemen.

Fixed 2% price, over entire chain: A competing supplier can easily undercut that downstream conspiratorial bloat.
Show HN: Momenial–create digital certificates (no AI) for webinars and courses
Momenial is an Android/iOS app that creates digital certificates for webinars and courses. I bought some cute domain names so your certs can be like, e.g., cert.fyi/BLA or .id/BLA. Example certificate: https://cert.fyi/DEMO

It's a labor of love, four years in the making (I have a job and small kids). I did a Show HN in 2022(!), and a lot has changed since then. It's now more professional-looking and hosted on Fly.io. I also use PostgreSQL, Redis, Flutter, and Cloudflare. Cloudflare devex is... a mixed bag.

Here's a speed run of the app: https://videos.momenial.com/watch/MTc5NzgyMw==?aspect=1.78 but it's best to try it yourself (it's free), and feel free to ask me anything!
I think the feeling is that for this to really be AGI, it has to take in a single prompt and then delegate behind the scenes to an enormous tree of sub-agents if needed.

One app that comes to mind is Google's Conversational agents. The routing is just done by referencing another agent in the instructions, no need to explicitly link beyond the prompt.
You need to meet more politicians, they come in all shapes and sizes just like the American people. Are there a lot of born-with-a-silver-spoon, never-worked-a-day-in-their-life types? Absolutely. But across this country at every level, even in Congress, there are people who overcame remarkable odds and chose to work in public service to make their communities, states, and country better. Look deeper than just the people who grab the headlines.

Now, an elected official friend who is a former teacher is fond of saying the following: when people get elected, they come with three tiers of knowledge. There's what they know personally - their career field, maybe their hobby, maybe they are ex-military, etc. Then there's secondary: something they observed in a parent or spouse. Finally, there's everything else. In any given session - legislative, congressional, etc, there are going to be thousands of complicated topics thrown at these people, where the issues are way outside their wheelhouse. The best politicians are the ones who not only are really good at synthesizing information, but they surround themselves with quality policy staff - that is, they build a good team to overcome their own lack of background.
Someone still needs to assemble those documents to create the torrent collections in the first place. That's harder now that captchas and other access walls are getting more and more hostile to human consumption.

So, yes, torrents help to preserve what has already been archived in the past, but we still need a lot more works to be deposited in open archives like Zenodo or arxiv in the first place.