skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“XDG is working on next-generation display technology”

A friend told me Apple has had a working hologram for ~10 years now and they got to see it. Probably cost prohibitive.
281 Comments and no one has yet touch on what I thought was the more important topic;

>Oh yay, HN found my post. I don't do HN any more, but to answer some of the comments there:

We now have fewer expert on HN and HN is fast becoming another Reddit.
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Perhaps a better match for some folks' expectations, the Unicode Consortium's YouTube has plenty of talks on https://youtube.com/@unicode. Low view counts but often quite fascinating
Devils0wn Windows XP Final serial key, yeah baby! Seared into my mind forever after entering it so much:

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXKRT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

I used to reinstall windows anytime anything got weird, which was often because I was always messing with disabling combinations of system services in attempts to reduce OS memory consumption. Wtf is svchost.exe doing? I don't want it! Wireless Zero Config? I don't have Wi-Fi, too flaky and slow (remember, it's 2003). Distributed Link Tracker?
Sounds cool, but what distributed links am I tracking? I don't think this is part of Napster or KaZaa.. DCOM Sockets.. <disable>, and so on, until the eventual: Oops, the network is messed up. What was this originally set to? Haha. Oh well, time to refresh and start anew..

Sigh. Those were good times. Eventually I got more memory and gave it all up and devolved all the way to allowing Win10 to indulge in it's wasteful memory ways and report it's telemetry about me or whatever the fuck else creepy shit it wants to do. It also helps that now we tend to have a bit more than 512MB total RAM.
I've been using it for the same thing. Super helpful for building sample datasets for a class I'm putting together.
Not really. It appears to be a database of approved (and disapproved) software people can use for various activities. The constraint on this one (and it seems to be on most of them, doing a brief browse through) is that you have to inform/get approval from the supervisor and others before downloading and perform a virus scan on it before executing.

I guess the good thing is that it shows the VA has a central repository of approved and disapproved software instead of making every team go out and figure it out themselves.
A large family is an asset in industrialized societies too, but in the long run. For example, having lots of siblings can help you later on for networking or being able to go someone to depend on, assuming a decent number of them obtain useful positions in society.

But in the short term, it is a lot of sacrifice, especially for the woman who has to give birth and raise all those babies. And of course, it is a lot of work to instill values such that the family stays close, and luck such as being located in a location that is experiencing an economic boom.
Honestly? If the choice is between "lock these works away because they contain something that could be offensive" or "bowdlerize the shit out of everything", then as far as I'm concerned, lock 'em up and throw away the key. At least they'll still exist in that form if they do so, for future generations to regain access to, once society realizes that this is not the way.
Except 2x4 framing, which is often a loss leader to get contractors in the door.
Yet Adams doesn't argue to only avoid people who say "it's not OK to be white". He says white people should avoid black people in general. It's reductive to the point of being a racist conclusion itself. Such sentiments led to white flight and red lining. Things which only reinforced a system already stacked against people of color.

And his conclusion is based on mixed results from a poll asking a very loaded question. So as logical arguments go it's flimsy at best.

I'm not advocating hating anyone, implicitly or explicitly. It's disappointing when people disagree, yet not a reason to hate them personally--even when their ideas are destructive or hateful. Of course there are times when it is best to disengage, yet that doesn't excuse bucketing whole races or groups of people. Each person deserves to be heard and considered on their own merits, or not heard based on their own behavior.
Suppose my consciousness is localized in a single neuron. This neuron is connected to thousands of other neurons, each of which is connected to... etc, so the "me"-cell indirectly receives inputs from the entire body. The swapping of attention, as well as any other effect you can think of, could conceivably be implemented by a "me"-cell alone, just based on the interplay of inputs.
Oxygen Not Included is a video game with some pretty good liquid and gas simulations along these lines.
The demographic transition in France began earlier than in other industrial economies. I'm not even sure industrialization has much to do with it.

The fertility rate in Britain was still higher in the 1880s than it was in France back in 1800. Economically Britain was 20-50 years ahead of France but demographically France was almost a hundred years ahead.

e.g. see
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033137/fertility-rate-f... and https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033074/fertility-rate-u...
Defaults don't matter as much as we all pretend they do.

For the decade that Internet Explorer sucked basically all computer users got programmed to treat it like a Chrome/Firefox downloader. Most users don't know that Edge is Microsoft flavored Chrome now, so they continue to use Edge to download other browsers and move on with their lives.

This is an unpopular opinion, but IE4 and especially IE5 were significantly better than what Mozilla/Netscape were putting out at the time. This is what grew their marketshare more than the bundling that everyone focused on. Then Microsoft sat on IE6 for years and let it fall way behind everyone else. IE7 was basically IE6 with tabs. By the time they began investing in their own browser again it was largely too late.
When Trump made accusations of a lab leak, there were few facts pointing to that conclusion. Furthermore, the statements he made were dangerous to Asian Americans in the US. Later, as more facts came to light, the lab-leak theory became more plausible.

Guessing right in the absence of evidence shouldn't grant a person any kind of vindication in retrospect
I thought some newer distros dropped 32 bit uefi support - i certainly seem to recall an old thinkpad that wouldn't boot latest Ubuntu lts - but maybe I was wrong and it was old enough to be 32bit (don't think so...).
I'm feeling this rn brother.

The blues, if you've never had em, I hope you never do.
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There's also the reverse effect, with aging childless observing their parenting age-peers go through a "third person youth experience" they don't have themselves.
I was thinking about American culture, though I probably exaggerated things there as well. Still, if we pretend I was talking about the 1880s, I think my point still stands.

Also, sure - other cultures had different perspectives on sexuality. I don't think there is any argument to be made that biblical era jewish society was more respectful of Freedom of Speech than modern America or Europe, so I don't think this is very relevant in context.
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Just for context, that system lists what might be approved for installation on Government Furnished Equipment. It doesn't mean anyone will use it.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
I don’t think he claims that all forms of intermediation are evil. It depends on their purposes and effects. A search engine is itself a form of intermediation and can be immensely useful. The fake business sites add no value for anyone except the people fraudulently skimming the markups, and their collaborators: Google, Amex, etc.
And they say that slippery slopes are just a fallacy.
Why is this here? This is just Chinese government propaganda.
Can you provide a phone with an updated kernel? I have yet to see one on XDA and am really curious
When I mirror people's behavior they get mad. When a chatbot does it, the bot must be broken. Staring in to the mirror is staring in to the abyss. People are not ready to see their true soul.

Often times people don't even realize their casual lies. I'm not talking about mistakes in understanding, I'm talking about intentionally saying thing they know not to be true. We often call these "white lies" and it's done to spare feeling or avoid confrontation or really it's done because people lack fortitude to speak truth or not answer. Of course many times the asker is a fault too. We sometimes ask questions we should know better than asking. I tried to impress that idea of, only ask if you want to know, upon my children. Kids ask anything often times parents should moderate their answers. Once my kids were in their adolescence I let them know that they need to think about these things. They are mature enough to handle adult answers about things and if they ask me something I'll answer them directly and truthfully. There was a bit of a transition phase where they would ask something without thinking and I'd have to look at them and ask if they really wanted to know that answer. Usually they'd think about about it and withdrawal the question.

My experience with AI is that it still has the emotional maturity of a small child not able to comprehend or regulate such matters. Because that kind of comprehension is algorithmically difficult. So you 5 year old with massive amounts of knowledge regurgitating it back trying mimic it's creators. Like a child it can't always understand fact and fiction. It really doesn't understand white lie vs lie lie. It's a imperfect mirror, but it's a mirror that perfect at magnifying our faults that we have collectively considered "normal".
Taking it to the extreme:
Would be even better if they know what you write so send the whole code.

It's just a programming language not organ donation.
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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Custom kernels are not upgraded kernels. They usually just back port a few fixes. No custom kernel running Android has a full kernel upgrade because it breaks the KMI and kernel drivers aren't usually updated.
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ah, i didn't know that thanks
Yep! Just shot you an email back.
Today, the science practices double-think: on the one hand it claims that the entire universe is one big wave function that evolves as one and can't be split into parts, but on the other hand it would call you a heretic if you use this wave function reasoning to claim a connection to a plant or, worse, to a rock.
I've tried it out of curiosity and it's extremely unstable so far. Barely runs on my Linux box and couldn't get it to run without crashing on Windows.
The business scorecard just seems like it is measuring a set of key results. If it’s a KPI the team is trying to achieve then how is that different than a key result?
>You could, and it's going to be one effect or the other that is stronger... And now we know which one.

If the result would have been the other way around, we could have had here on NH the same story with the same argument with about the same conclusion. That's not very helpful.

Note also the null hypothesis (none of these 'effects' matter, and choice is rather random) has the same non-explanatory potential as the story does.
We are changing the behaviour of the LLM itself. No "real" code execution necessary. We show a variety of different novel scenarios and attack vectors. Malicious prompts can be planted on the internet or actively sent to targets. It's effectively turning the LLM itself into the compromised computer that the attacker controls.
It affects any proposed LLM use case involving connecting the LLM to anything at all, for a lot of our demos we only require a "search" capability. The concrete LLM (davinci3) with LangChain is just one example, this work should generalize to other systems such as Bing Chat (we just didn't have access). We are currently working on more real-world proof-of-concepts, but then we obviously have to go through responsible disclosure so it is not so quick to publish.
PostmarketOS is the mainline Linux kernel and doesn't have all the features that are needed for a proper Android phone. There are a lot of Android userspace drivers that may break with another kernel.
They do make some attempts on their web site to steer you into the yearly subscription, or into buying a yearly support contract if you do buy a permanent license, so some folks might not realize the permanent licenses are still available without a support contract.

They also run regular sales on all their products. Pi day is coming up.
so basically OKRs?
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Lots of indies like to make their games available and easily playable (e.g. no download) during development on itch so for that use case, yes, it's important.
for a deeper dive into this sort of idea i recommend reading "mind in life" by evan thompson
The home office stipend was cut, but there is still a home internet credit of $900/year.

Yeah sure there are plenty of issues but none of those are related to remote. It is much easier to find a remote role at Meta vs other big tech companies. In fact I just checked and a plurality of my org is remote! Obviously a big majority is in _some_ office, but people are spread out over many locations around the US/world.
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An interesting search proxy is also SearX. Written in Python, it supports many backend engines and can be self hosted.

And here's a lightweight frontend/proxy I wrote in C for using Google search on low-end phones that can't render bloated HTML (SearX was too complicated to install):

http://searc.4a.si:7327/search?q=news

It's also nice that the structured never constantly changing HTML it produces makes it ideal to programatically query Google. Although you still run into captchas which it cannot solve if queries get too suspicious.
This seem to be a public repository for it https://github.com/UoYCS-plasma/GP2
I run this search engine comparison tool:

https://www.gnod.com/search/

Just added Ichido.

Click on "more engines" to activate it.
Ctrl-A Ctrl-X and Ctrl-Z is enough good for me on dvorak. What about mouse, I started to learn Dvorak and Vim exactly because I do not like mouse.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Excellent feedback.

What you are requesting is hard to scale.
What's the use case for this? If I don't want Google scripts, I block them. I'll use a user agent that doesn't download or run them. If I don't want cookies, I'll instruct my browser not to save cookies. What situation would I be in where knowing whether a site uses these things is a search result I want to visit?
Not disagreeing, but I noticed something: It's funny when we use the word "chauvinism" -- which means "belief in superiority" (whether in a natural "is" sense or a social "ought" sense) -- to instead mean "weakness and thirst".
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Beej’s site is a gem. I remember coming across it in 2010 or so, thinking, yeah this stuff is great but what happens when this guy gets kids or a “real job” and the bit rot sets in?

Here we are, closing in on 15 years later, and it’s both still-great and up to date.
I never thought we would fight over who gets to mow the lawn. An hour of peace during the daytime!
Just makes me picture Maggie Simpson

Well, a really old Maggie Simpson with a buzz-cut. I do jokingly call them onesies. Expensive onesies anyway.

If this phone gets lineageOS support then it may be the perfect phone.

That would work for me as well.
All of art, history and culture just needs a few minor corrections.
Have you read the James Bond books? I have. They’re terrible. Like, ignoring the racist bullshit they’re pablum. This is not some huge societal loss.
Open the developer tools, choose the network tab, click on "XHR" to filter down the noise, type LAX into the search box, and then watch the things that change. After it presented the error message, I looked for things named KLAX in the list, clicked on that row, clicked on the Response pane and saw that silliness
While the article may be good at explaining organizational goal setting, personally I f*g hate anything about this HR bullshit. It's simple: make goals, do them. Don't overcomplicate and annoy people who actually do smth compared to those that just talk.
Kind of trapped in a large project. Started in Turbo Pascal in 1994, ported to Delphi, and we're still working on it. Maybe will finally have to port it to something else if WASM support is not added soon. I like the language because it's readable, yet as powerful and close to the metal as C++. Not so happy with the pricing model though.
My favorite 2D liquid simulator is this IOCCC2012 submission [1]... simply astonishing.

That is the source file shown at the beginning of the video... it compiles without warnings, runs a full blown fluid dynamics sim with surface tension and everything, can take itself as its own input... truly a work of art.

[1] https://youtu.be/QMYfkOtYYlg
How is it paranoia to simply propose that Google give us the same thing they want us to give them?

If they don't want to do that, why exactly not?

Paranoia is imagining something. This is posing a question that they or you or anyone is free to simply answer, or fail to.
Can you point out any factual inaccuracies? It's an interesting document, and worth reading if only to get an idea of how others view us.
Airtable provides an interesting mix of spreadsheet and database functionality.
I was actually just looking for a C book. I already "know" (I use the term loosely) C but have little insight into how to write real code, and any best practices.

Will check this out.
I wonder how the classified intelligence report responds to the fact that the early cases clustered around the Huanan Market not the Wahun Institute of Virology...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/03/1083751...
I've tried a bunch, but many of the prettier ones don't have Linux versions. I've been using DBeaver (https://dbeaver.io/) for years now though - it's occasionally a little rough around the edges, but overall it's really amazing!

It uses jdbc drivers for database support, so it can handle basically anything.
The people upvoting this blog can’t have read it, since an HN audience would not possibly think the solution to OKRs is to supplement them with a reductionist income statement and traffic light scorecards
No, but if there’s overt racism that doesn’t add to the pulpy paperback meant to pass the time, changing that racism could interest new consumers who aren’t titillated by inane racism.
Tesco (in particular) almost exclusively buys the stuff that no-one else will buy. Go through the steaks they have at your local supermarket, awful. All their cuts are awful, even ones costing £8, because they have an obsession with cutting corners.

The only supermarket that has decent meat is Aldi. But if you compare this to product sold into food service, it isn't close.
I'm bored with people rolling this quote out and I disagree with the premise.

This is much more like Victorian prudery and moral panics than some foreshadowing of a totalitarian state. Stop being overly dramatic.
Categorising ideas as age specific makes sense. We think differently as we get older, our mind is slower, our ideas change. Categorising the body according to how 'old' it is or feels or looks also makes sense. Categorising consciousness in the same way makes no sense at all, consciousness feels the same from as soon as you are aware of it until the moment you are unaware of it (usually death). The confusion often arises in conflating consciousness with the body or the mind or both.
>Edit: looks like the file type filter is dropped as well. Do add the arguments to the pagination links.

Thank you, great feedback! You're right, I forgot to include some of the params in the pagination, will have to include those in the next update.
>'Avatar 2' is already the 10th highest-grossing movie ever made

OK, point taken
That obviously depends on what excites you. I think it's cool that more free software gaining acceptance and traction
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Fun facts in queer history... Public Universal Friend was a nonbinary religious leader in the 1700s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend
I’ll check out fresh and Astro!

As far as costs go…

Beaver builder - 250
Custom fields - 100
Faceting - 100
forms - 150
Import/export - 100

It doesn’t take long to get to $1000!

The new system I’m working on will be extensible for various needs using new composer packages. So if someone wanted to write an obscure form handler, they could trivially add it to Prodigy as well.
I am so happy to work in a company that does not work with this business voodoo (and still delivers great results).
All goal frameworks I have worked in, OKRs included, were a colossal waste of time.
Oh wow I had no idea.

https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study/image-line-software-c...
Well European powers were already well ahead in their 'quest' of subjugating the entire world in the 1500s and 1600s. Obviously they couldn't directly challenge China and some other Asian states at the time yet but the trend was pretty clear.

However Europe still lagged both economically and population wise behind Asia at the time and industrialization hadn't really started.
Yes but these days it is considered racist to publish ANYTHING that portrays POC in a negative mannor.

It is important for media consumers to only associate POCs with positive attributes
It is a matter of precedence. Censoring written works is a slippery slope. Eventually, you end up with a documented history that never was.
I find the extra information useful, as I dont have to visit the site to find out.
If we switched out Bond for some book you do think would be a societal loss, what would be your preference?
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Yes. I've long felt time pressure. It wasn't until I was thirty and finally working in the career I'd wanted to work in since I was about 10 or so that I felt just 30. And my mid 20s were a time when my body was in the best shape of my life; but I still felt as if time was passing too swiftly.
If you’re going to finish your second year in 2023, how do you plan to get your Bachelor’s in 2024?

Why do you need to decide right now? You’re not even half way through with your Bachelors, and you haven’t had any of the hard CS courses yet.

Statistically you’re much less likely to go back to school after you graduate, so if you want to get MSc you should do it right after BSc.

Also, the benefits of having an MSc from a recognizable university would normally outweigh the 1-2 year delay for the start of your SWE career, unless you’re somehow offered an amazing job opportunity (hint: not a boring 9-5 entry level job at Lego).