skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've built a non-trivial prototype application for the Looking Glass, and once you are past the initial 'cool' moment the downsides start to rear their head:

- Split a 4k signal into 45 view planes means the effective resolution sucks, bad.

- Likewise, if your content is complicated at all you need a monster GPU because you are rendering your scenes 45 times per frame, meaning 45 times the draw calls.

- Field of view is very limited

- The amount of z-depth you can put content in without major blurring is much lower than even this video would indicate.

- You need to design your scene so important content never reaches the edges or things look yuck.

- Some patterns lead to artifacts like moire, and it can be hard to predict. Your content needs to work around this.

- They are (understandably) very expensive.

All that said, these things are cool and would be a perfect fit for some use-cases. After the prototype I built was green lit for full production, the decision was made to ditch these displays for all the reasons above.
I have to wonder if computer parts are less exciting now because of the lack of generational improvement or the fact that I'm an old fart that can't spend a bunch of time geeking out over the next generation.

I really followed computer evolution during the GHz wars. Watching a CPU go from 300Mhz being fast to 2GHz being fast was amazing. Then watching as AMD pulled 1.8GHz parts and kicked the pants off of Intel's 2.5GHz parts was equally incredible to young me.

Now I see generation to generation pushing 5->10% improvements and mostly go "meh".
I have had to deal with this. Resetting expectations with health issues, family and personal challenges and growth, finance, unemployment, etc. Huge keys are honesty with self and others, kindness (the whole true Golden Rule), prioritizing and solving problems one at a time, not giving up, etc. (Edit: others here also have some ideas that can be helpful -- like maintaining good health practices, etc.)

Still, for me, and I think after a certain point for anyone, there are big some prerequisites, or the good conventional wisdom can break down and be insufficient. Prerequisites including things like like having balance and purpose in life, and a perspective and way of knowing that things will be OK in the long run, that hard things are OK for now, where to find help and solutions, and endure well through the unsolved (for now) things, how & why. I've written much more elsewhere (see profile; nothing for sale but can try answering qs). It is hard, possible for anyone one step at a time, and worth it.
Maybe you've had direct interactions with community members, but it is very unfair for you to characterize the Elm community as "unfriendly" based off of your reading of a few posts.

My actual experience has been exactly the opposite: I've interacted with many members of the community (at multiple Elm conferences, in the Slack, and even twice met members of the community for in-person meetings when they were visiting near my office). All of these interactions have been the entirely opposite of "unfriendly".
That's rather unusual. "A pugnacious Bengali intellectual" would be the more usual stereotype back in the subcontinent.
At least it's an improvement over the usual way it works where big players with unparalleled power in the market don't care about the future and unilaterally decide that we should pollute for another decade or two.
Not convincing exactly, but I’m glad to know the thinking behind it, thank you. How are you torn?
In this case it seems pretty clear. If you're not sure you could try reading more posts before posting. You should be able to pick up the general vibe/tone.
Just want to touch on the last sentence--putting a mask on once you feel sick can still lower the amount of people you give a virus to since you're lowering the number of days that you are easily transmitting.

I think wearing a mask when you feel sick and possibly masking up en masse for certain seasons of the year, if it has a measurable impact, is worth it. I really don't mid wearing my mask so if Nov., Dec., and Jan. I have to wear a mask in stores I really don't care at all.
> I personally would not use this term, just as I would not use e.g. "to beg the question". I wonder if this phenomenon has a name, along the lines of "euphemistic treadmill".

I intentionally use "beg the question" with the new meaning to do my part in cycling out the old meaning as quickly as possible. The "old" meaning is a waste of precious linguistic bandwidth, spent on a concept that is very rarely invoked (and could be just as easily invoked with something like "presupposes the facts", which is more intuitive).

If language is dynamic, then braindead vestigials should be bulldozed out with prejudice, especially when they tie up prime real estate.
what if i say okey
The issue with one group withdrawing funding is that another group steps in to provide it. And they do so at a better rate for themselves. So the least ethical market participant makes the most profit.

I prefer the opposite strategy some funds have taken: investing and then pressuring boards to behave better.
The first letters (at least one, often but not always two) of any ICAO airport code represent the country it's in, and by convenient coincidence, the only three unused letters are I, J and X. I personally would probably have plumped for X as in extraterrestrial, but Xxxx codes are already frequently used for unofficial codes like train stations, so maybe someday Mars will indeed be J or JZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code
> Which mostly go to people in the very, very, very long backlog.

There is an upper limit that restricts the number of greencards given to applicants of any one country to 7%.

The reason there are very very long backlogs for China and India is because they both combined account for only 14% of the green cards awarded each year. The remaining green cards are mostly unused.
rattle your network until you find a tenured professor who has interesting-to-you grants, and talk them into letting you join the lab as a visiting researcher.

if you do it right they’ll be overjoyed to have technical staff who aren’t degree candidates and you’ll get something tasty to intellectually munch on.
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Stuff like this is why I have difficulty giving up YouTube. I've given up basically every other algorithmic feed (except for HN, I suppose) but the amount of passionate and engaging education and curiosity content on YT will have me hooked for a while I suppose...
That is my point, they deserve our scorn for being so late to end their bigoted policies, not praise.
If making an innocuous and minor change to your vocabulary to help a colleague bothers you so much, maybe it's you that needs the professional help.

(Your implied "solution" of "all people with severe anxiety should just get professional help to solve it" incorrectly presumes that professional help always solves that problem AND greatly over-estimates the number of people that have access to said professional help.)

That's just me, though. I'm already an oddity on HN because I don't care if an employer fires people for saying racist things nor do I care if a social media company chooses to end its professional relationship with a user that posts anti-vax nonsense.
I've used a Looking Glass and it doesn't look like a a lenticular display. It looks closer to a hologram (despite the fact it's not.)

The image appears suspending inside the block of glass and responds sufficiently well to head movements to be convincing. You can't see the giveaway "ruled lines" that lentincular sheets have.

Once you know it's not truly holographic it becomes fairly obvious and you notice that up/down doesn't provide any depth (only left/right) but the effect is convincing and magical at first.

So although it might be lenticular in principle - it's far from what you could achieve with your proposed method.
Question: how did this trick help you bypass the proxy?

The only way I can think of this possibly helping you is by changing the Host header and that somehow fooling the proxy into allowing your connection through. However some random testing with both a modern browser and a really old version of firefox I have installed shows that it seems to convert the 'weird number format' into a proper IP address, even when using a proxy. In other words, I cannot see how using these weird IPs ever could make a difference from the proxy's perspective.
Poor people and avoiding environmental calamities are separate problems with separate solutions.
I hadn't realized that she was anybody's favorite anything. I listen to her podcast, but I've never heard anybody else talk about it. (I'm not, of course, among the Tech Elite.)

I started listening to that podcast when it was run by Massimo Pigliucci, a philosophy professor. I didn't and don't think much of her as an interviewer; she seems to have a kind of naive faith in Bayesianism and doesn't push back on a lot of things that I think deserve closer scrutiny. I keep thinking of dropping it, but there hasn't been an episode in a while. I often skip episodes.

I'm all for popularizing rationality and skepticism, but you have to be really careful about it. It's easy to assume the mantle of rationality without actually being rational. Thiel is himself an excellent example: he's more contrarian than rationalist, and a lot of the issues he promotes are strongly disagreed with by people with considerably more experience and expertise than he has.

How can you resolve that? Is it because he's genuinely that much smarter, or is it because he's wrong and engaging in all of the usual ways that rational people use to deceive themselves into thinking they're doing comprehensive research? Are these just equal and opposite opinions? That doesn't sound very rationalistic.

I hadn't heard that Galef was tied into that camp, but having heard hear it doesn't surprise me.
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I am aware of my limitations as human being in this society, speak from actual work experience, and will use any tooling that I rant about when it is on the best interests of the customers, regardless of my personal agenda.

Something to think about, or maybe not.
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I for one would appreciate anyone who has expert biological knowledge commenting on this.

I don't entirely dismiss this article since I have a friend who worked with prions in a bio lab at the Univ. of Chicago and I remember he was absolutely terrified of them. (And IIRC he reported having some doubts about laboratory safety protocols...) But I don't think he was afraid of this kind of apocalyptic endgame either; he just thought they were horrendously nasty stuff.
I don't think it's been obvious at all, at least as evidenced by preventive measures people take.

If it's airborne, then "social distancing" (especially at 6 feet), hand washing, and cloth face coverings are not sufficient to prevent transmission. If it's droplet transmitted, then those all work quite well.

I still see hotels, airlines, restaurants, etc pushing prevention measures that don't account for airborne transmission. So, while many (including myself) may feel there is no substantial debate to be had here, I'm not sure that the community at large has caught up.
Who can say?

But the British government has experience, from the Kraft purchase of Cadbury, that even if the buyers promise to keep jobs in the UK and product quality high, once the deal goes through they can renege on those promises instantly with no negative consequences.
From your link, I followed to the music of Lotus Helix:

https://lotushelix.bandcamp.com/

Wow, I'm very captivated by it, such high musical weirdness! Excellent stuff.
I hope correct timeline here:

- EU drops plans to license ARM and start to obviously fail to buid their own arch
- Softbank announces it want to get rid of ARM
- Nvidia want, UK agree
- Apple announces M1
- Nvidia announces Grace
- LG drop making phones
- China announces cpu independence
- UK oh noes, our treasure ! - suddenly "own" arch is good ? LOL

If it is just money for Nvidia deal need to be preserved.

But Apple and Nvidia are Intel killers now and noone saw potential in ARM ? More likely ARM wanted to ditch UK. Or rather top managers was talking with US buyers earlier... Like Altavista execs moved to Google after headshotting own company.

Anyway, whatever - let just x86 die. And pleas, pleas kill MS Windows too !! There is astonishing amount of money behind this madness. Not to mention "spyware" element in both.
This is interesting!

My own anecdote: when I graduated from college I had zero experience aside from one internship at a small noname company. No one would hire me. I started reaching out to local companies big and small saying I would work for free if they'd use me. Not just programming jobs, but also general IT or even helpdesk jobs - anything remotely computer related. None took me up on my offer. I suppose they saw me as more of a liability than an asset, or that onboarding costs still wouldn't be worth having free labor. It was an interesting eyeopener.

But since you're experienced, your story is different from mine.
He did not graduate so he is not eligible for any work as a researcher inside any eu university.
I swore off of OnePlus devices when my OnePlus 5 got an OTA update on Christmas eve that softbricked my phone. Had to do a complete wipe on it since it was encrypted. I think they either pulled the update later or I was in some early rollout group.

These days I actually have an iPhone because I wanted a smartwatch for activity tracking and all Android ones seemed like shit.
MLOps. Rightfully so. If you're involved in the field, this is long overdue. There's a lot of noise but things will settle in a few years when people quit.
The fewer people willing to lend the more expensive money becomes. This can make some projects unprofitable.
>The same logic applies to contract killing, doesn't it?

I don't think anyone expects the rate of contract killing to hit zero just because they personally don't do it...
Technically, America is metric in that our units are based on metric units now. So 1 yard is defined as 0.9144 meter and 1 pound (avoirdupois) is 0.45359237 kg[0].

0: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.p...
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Counterpoint: The Fore people of NZ had kuru from ritual cannibalism. Then they stopped. Eventually, the disease stopped too. Prions are nasty, but we've had 3.5 billion years of protein folding and none of it has ended the world yet.
If only so much other "bad terminology" in IT that does not accurately reflect what it means, such as POST, PUT, cookie, bug, shell, etc. were also names of discriminated social groups in America... maybe then we could get people arguing loudly and stubbornly to replace them. One can only dream.
That's true.

When my dad got a harpsichord, part of the process was getting trained by the maker on how to tune it. There's an old joke: Q: What's a harpsichordist doing when they're not tuning their harpsichord? A: Playing out of tune.
As I read this, cellular automata lurked in the back of my mind. Despite the stochastic details, there is an eerie clockwork marching hiding under the covers of life.
Instead of Windows I´d setup a black and white environment under OpenBSD/Slackware with the System4 GTK3/2 theme and some monospaced icon set.

Also, CWM with a black/white setup it's dumb easy, and xterm has an XTERMM termcap setting for the TERM variable, so that's a solved issue.

Also lots of old X11 games will work fine, among text adventures/games and Game Boy titles.

Finally, X11 has a monochrome switch, really useful for these cases (I think it adds dithering to a b/w display):

Xserver -render mono

Under OpenBSD, edit /etc/X11/xenodm/Xservers and add
to the last line:

-render mono
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I’m surprised these haven’t been weaponized by terrorists.
> Honestly, from a driver perspective, that's sort of what you get with PCIe as well.

Right, I was sort of alluding to that. I’m really just curious how the NVMe packets physically make their way to the SSD.
> I'm not sure that the community at large has caught up.

Fair point. Where I live people seem obsessed with handwashing, but those same people are not afraid to go unmasked to a bar for hours.
What are the "spyware" elements you refer to in x86?
So you think if a notorious terrorist or whatever moved millions of dollars through Monero to fund a terror attack, American or other intelligence agencies wouldn't be able to identify the transaction?

It could be done truly anonymously when up against the full weight and might of US, Western, Israeli etc intelligence budgets and methods?
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Most *nixes accept a lot of these weird formats in many contexts.
When I was kid my father used to recycle a lot of broken electronics. Most devices could be easily fixed (back then) assuming they haven't been damaged physically and assuming nobody else tried to fix them.
Then I'd suggest to use another term, e.g. just failure.
> Prions Are Going to End the World

Get in line.

/* reads TFA about prions binding in soil */

Please move to the front of the line.
And yet... That is what I got from a less than 2y/o Python application.

Java isn't the problem. People lacking a broader view are.
It's only significant if those people were shot when it wasn't necessary. I think you'll find in the majority of these cases the shootings were more than justified and that includes many of the recent shootings/killings. If you want of fix the issue maybe try focusing on the actual problem which is the fact that these people end up in a life where they feel they need to be criminals to survive. Fix the socio-economic problems that cause this instead of what happens after they're already stuck in that lifestyle. You see this same sort of ridiculous logic in gun control as well. I'm sorry but the problem isn't as simple as taking away guns or blaming police. When people use this narrative I have question whether they actually even care about helping these people or if they want to just feel good and lie to themselves by picking out something they can easily blame. Focusing on police reform and gun control is such a white elitist argument. They can focus on a couple easy issues, pat themselves on the back and return to their lifestyles of luxury without even thinking about minorities afterwards.

Additionally, here are the leading causes of death in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Notice that unjustified police shootings aren't even close in numbers? Would you like to have a discussion about diabetes and how we fix it? Probably not, because it's fat shaming to discuss that but the extremely rare police shooting "epidemic" is what we should be scared of, not the fact that there's an actual obesity epidemic.
Matt Levine talks about this all the time in his column. These big institutional investors and index fund managers essentially “own the market”, meaning their profit and loss is determined by the entire market’s performance and not particular companies. Some people fear this will decrease competition (because if your biggest investor also is a big investor in your competitor, they might not want you to compete on price as much), but it also leads to big investors sometimes pushing for policies that help society as a whole in places where an investor in a few companies wouldn’t have the same incentive.

COVID-19 is an example. An investor in a drug company might want that company to maximize their profit from making a COVID vaccine, but an index fund manager would be willing to sacrifice some profit for a faster vaccine distribution because the benefit to the economy as a whole (and thus their own total profit) would be greater than the lost profit from not maximizing vaccine profits.

Climate change is similar. Having index funds and other large fund managers owning the market means their fear of climate change damaging their long term profits is greater than their greed to make profit from one individual company causing environmental damage in pursuit of profit.

In some ways it is kinda interesting, since it is a way past the collective action problem that often prevents action on things like climate change. It is also scary, of course, for non-democratic institutions to have so much power.
A few days later and I am still going through this all -- thank you again for providing a lot of detailed resources. I could watch Blackhat talks all evening; my spouse might disagree!
Yea i feel like a job in research would be best fit, but that probably also requires a certain level of graduation.
At various points they show people joining remotely via video chat. Perhaps the people in the control room self selected based on covid risk?
Ice-nine is the real threat!
I've had a great experience with porkbun after being recommended them on HN. I've never had to open their website or think about them since I bought the domain, which is exactly what I want in a registrar.
It can be used as a PC display, which I'd kill for (figuratively) as long as it's affordable. If it's $200 or more, that's not what I consider affordable.
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Look if you wanna shoot your career in the face go ahead stick to Elixir, the rest of us have bills to pay.
So Francesco says they refuse to do technical interviews and says their CV and Github are proof enough.

The CV shows experience as a freelance engineer at Apple for a bit, then an engineer for Samsung which they were made redundant from. Their GitHub is 3 projects, a python script, a breakout board and then a beta libary. They argue that's fine though because they'd work for £1/hr, but the real cost of an upfront hire is my time, not money.

The author seems to not understand how key money is for the relationship between manager and employee. I have plenty of employee's who'll work on interesting stuff in their own hours, but I pay them so they stay around and do the boring bits like docs, DR, testing, support, bus-factoring.
I like that a lot. Thank you. (a) be honest and (b) remind them that you got them by the balls if crap hits the fan.
(Quick correction: PNG, not NZ.)
Couldn't he be hired as an engineer or technical staff?
Steel can use electricity for heat and hydrogen for reduction. There are some things where we don't know of good replacemets (e.g. concrete, aviation), but steel is not a good example.

In any case, if we get rid of fossil fuels everywhere where it's easy (electricity, heating, mobility except for flying), then we have a lot larger budget for figuring out how to do the things where it's not easy.
I get your point, it's magnificent. But something seems off with those numbers:

7.3+4.48+5.998 > 13.8
Incredible stuff! I first saw Looking Glass Factory [0] at Maker Faire in San Mateo around 2016. It was simple back then, probably 64 x 64 pixels "display". Imagine a bamboo garden made of 64 LED strips standing up, about 3'x3'x3' cube. Playing screensaver type light displays, entertaining at low res.

Then I saw a more recent version at a coffee shop in Providence. They're up to legit resolution now, and as a poster said, the light is split so all you're doing is moving your head. No head tracking/whatever.

It's one of those things that's tough to "get" without seeing yourself. Feels like a definitive piece of the future. I joined their Kickstarter awhile back as well.

Go Looking Glass crew!

[0] https://lookingglassfactory.com/