skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a classical West vs Asian.

This glasses case is a very good example. Apple is building a super duper expensive ego-driven project no one will ever buy at this price.

The Western world is trying hard to deliver something colossal and giant and sometimes even remarkable. It is driven by ego-centric: "I'm so smart, my product needs to be the best of the best, and I'll be talking to my grandkids about this product". With something like iPhone, it works.

The China-style approach is the classical bottom-up approach. I'll build something I can sell today. I'm not afraid to go with sub par product if people will buy it. I will mobilize my group because otherwise, we will not survive. I will sell it a lot. I will iterate a lot. As a result, I will make lots of money and become famous. The outcome is the same, but look at that. China has so many companies now in any area where it competes. And that combines with the government pushing from the top very long term 10 years+ initiatives. Solar, EVs, nuclear, Air industry, and Education in general.

This pattern is so deep in the culture. You can even see it with the military. And it's evident that the root cause of the problem is the lack of a healthy environment for manufacturing.

Just look at trade wars between China and the West. Microchips aside, what is the subject of war? The US ban pork exports in response to Huawei. Europe is trading French alcohol export quotas for EV imports.

This is extremely sad. The impact of the Western world's de-industrialization is huge. The current war in Ukraine emphasizes the Western incapability to produce almost anything in volume. Or with any quality. The few items still good due to 20-30 investments are just a delusion of previous capabilities.
I believe we have two rather different settings in mind. My statement assumes the enterprise use-case, where having a verifier is required. (In this context, I'm also assuming the approach of constraining against the observed data.) In such a selective classification setting, the end-user need not be exposed to lower quality outputs, but rather null predictions if the model cascade has been exhausted (i.e., progressively moving to larger models until the probability is acceptable).

Hopefully in 2024 we can get at least one of the benchmarks to move to assessing non-parametric/distribution-free uncertainty for selective classification, reflecting more recent CS/Stats advances that should be used in practice. Working on it.
So turn them off
With the risk of linking to 4chan; there is a /g/ guide to how to navigate Windows and it recommends exactly this.[0]

However: I do not publicly endorse software piracy, and so do not recommend using this guide; legitimate LTSC licenses are only possible to come by for Businesses with a minimum spend of 5 licenses.[1] :(

[0]: https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98121318

[1]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-do...
Hmm. XP was just one of many NT releases. The first to be marketed into the retail PC segment. Otherwise not really any more or less important than the others. It didn't mean anything as far as the broad landscape of corporate workflow.
It used to be the OS I want. They cut the 10 years LT support to 5 years.
This is news stories though. You don't want to read the stories on one machine and have it show up again on another machine.

I suppose it depends on how you consume your feeds: do you look at the latest, like a social media timeline? or read every entry of some blogs, like an inbox? I definitely have some feeds I consume like the latter, and I need that to persist and sync.
> > The US is funding an openly genocidal regime that is killing a child every ten minutes, saying there's "no red line".

> That's your political opinion.

Not really, no. They have said as much themselves. "There is no red line" is a direct quote.

Zionists, aka the ones committing and supporting this particularly heinous genocide, consider it a political view - no one else.

Zionists say it's complicated, it's self defense; even as they openly state their true intent [0]. But the entire rest of the fucking planet considers it wanton murder, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. We're heartbroken, we're furious, and we'll not stop talking about it until it ends.

> I don't see why it's not an obvious truth that sometimes people prefer not to have to think about politics or political ideology.

I explained why, as did other commenters. If you want to be ignorant and apathetic towards 'politics' (inequality and genocide and the planet burning for profit) that's your problem. Not mine. But it's a bit rich to then complain that you can't find good character driven stories, that enable and support such an apathetic and delusional choice of worldview.

> to suggest art or entertainment devoid of political ideology is "drivel" or for people without "good souls and hearts" is baffling.

I didn't.

I 'suggested' that if you want good stories devoid of 'political content' then maybe you can't find them because vapid and ignorant and soulless people don't write very good stories. If you can find them, then why bother complaining that other people are discussing and enjoying 'political' content.

0 - https://law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-databas...
It will be interesting to see what the displays are like.

AR is _very_ hard for a number of reasons:

1) the screens are really difficult to get right: too bright and you have no battery/burn your face, too dim and you've got really effective sunglasses

2) if you don't have local dimming (ie being able to take away light rather than emit it) then everything looks shit

3) input is super hard. No keboard, no mice, no touch screen. Sure you have hand tracking, but without third party sensors, you have to have your hands in view to track them. This means gorrila arms or just plain fucking frustration.

4) without a second CPU/GPU battery box, you have no compute power. Glasses only have about enough space for 2 watt hours of battery.

5) good 6dof tracking is compute expensive without custom silicon.
Expr Release v1.15.8
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/01/03/jad-sleiman-whyy-f...
My grandpa in particular is very technologically savvy but his real expertise stops around 1999. He uses windows 11 but detests it and frequently encounters issues that no one else on the internet have. One time while visiting, I set up windows 3.1 in a virtual box VM and he lit up like a candle. He was very excited about getting his old pascal programs running again.
Do you have a list of keyboards that are the same price as the MS Ergo (retail price of $59) that are as good? Because I've never found one.
It's literally on archive.org, just download the ISO and you can activate it with MAS

MS doesn't care about piracy at all. They'd rather let you pirate it than losing you by switching to Linux or Mac
I'm coming off of an entire weekend spent trying to get acceptable latency for audio recording in Linux. Just a midi controller to play a simple 3x oscillator VST with better than 250ms latency was my test case.

I tried different versions of Ubuntu, Debian, different kernels, different window managers, different graphics drivers, stripping things out of the system etc.

After going down the rabbit hole, I finally ripped out pulseaudio and replaced with ALSA.

In Windows or MacOS I would have been up and running immediately.

Now I'm completely burnt out and the creative urge is long gone.

Linux is my daily driver and I love it, but my god, some things are still way more fucking difficult than they need to be.

It reminds me of screwing around 20 years ago with wifi ndiswrapper stuff or multimonitor xrandr incantations.
I've been using Jarte for years. It's a beautiful, clean and efficient WordPad alternative compared to all the others.

https://www.jarte.com/
I have used the e-signing function of my German ID card exactly zero times.

Even government websites don't support it for the stuff I would like to use it. So it isn't exactly a success story.
Why Steam is not respecting users choice?
Every time I open Steam for last days it is asking for hardware survey ? I answered no 3 times. It's still asking? How can this be a bug and not dark design at all?
There is no reasoning with these people. What, if any, are the alternatives to a war against totalitarian entryists?
I hate it when visual oriented products make it difficult or impossible to see a screenshot of how they look like. Both of those products' github pages don't have screenshot, the first does have a website but no screenshots or links to them there either.

Do you have to install a tool that modifies the internals of your OS in order to see how it could look like? Imagine if you had to set up a painting on your wall before you could even see what it's a painting of.
Alas, the goodlaw project have a very bad track record for actually getting positive results.
The opposite is true, actually.
He has MS and badly needs the health insurance. Also he’s working remotely as I understand…
In my experience, the history and tabs sync when they feel like it. All my stuff ends up there eventually, but I can't expect that I'll sit down, close Firefox on mobile, and have the tabs and history show up on desktop.
So ... all the windows games now run on Linux? That would be news to me. And I was just recently messing with drivers, kernels etc to get a working result, but in the end I still could not play the (officially supported) game on Linux that I wanted (opposed to just works on windows), so good for you that your problems went away, but please note, that other people might have had other experiences.
A good analogy for AI risk. We'd never visited the Moon before, or any other celestial object. The risk analysis was not "we've never seen life from a foreign celestial object cause problems on Earth, therefore we aren't worried." The risk analysis was also not "let's never go to the Moon to be _extra_ safe, it's just not worth it."

The analysis was instead "with various methods we can be reasonably confident the Moon is sterile, but the risk of getting this wrong is very high, so we're going to be extra careful just in case." Pressing forward while investing in multiple layers of addressing risk.
Much more extensive article than I expected.

Seems like they found a reasonable balance between crew safety and protection against contamination, at least for the moon, but I'm left with the thought that if there is life on Mars, there's no way to prevent contamination when probes or people bring it back.
What would be the second in your opinion, even if it's not close?
Maybe I was too young but honestly I didn’t care at all. Was it colorful and super contrasted ? Yes. But it was not, at least to me, ugly.

Sure, coming from gray OSes from the 90’s, it could have appeared as "childish" but I really think this was just because people somehow internalized that "pro = sad gray". And for what its worth, I’m still convinced that we never had something better than the slightly 3D beige controls of Windows XP.

Now, any app is more colored than Windows XP but nothing is coherent anymore, there is no more "OS look" anywhere, it’s just the applications, their colors and their branding. Even Apple is losing this battle update after update.

I think it (metaphorically) says something about how we lost control of our computers.
Original report by WSJ: https://archive.is/4T8DD
Not being happy with your kid's sexual preferences when they grow up sounds more like a you problem
Teardown of Two Russian Missile Sensors
You're looking for a "job shop". There are small machine shops all over the world that can do this for you, but don't expect to get mass production prices... it's going to cost A LOT. You're paying for someone to figure out how to make it, set up any jigs, cut materials, etc.

I suggest you google "machine shop online"
Funny quote at the end: Writing in the first person? (Never.)

Whole article is first person…clever use of sarcasm…
Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader smoking pot: AI plays fast and loose with copyright
> I've heard the 'but driving to the airport is more dangerous than flying' argument a zillion times. That's not the point.

That's not YOUR point. The head of this thread (although to be fair, didn't SAY, but implied) he was swapping planes for safety. And that he's still flying, just on a different plane model, seems to reinforce that it was THEIR point.
Thanks. Definitely worth a look.
Which product specifically? As I understand Palantir has several products and the NHS isn't buying one of them but paying for something bespoke.
I'm not a big fan of this form black or white thinking. We could apply this to guns, bombs, drugs and conclude that it was pointless to reduce numbers.

In it's extreme form, a sufficiently motivated teenager built a homemade neutron source[1] therefore we shouldn't control nuclear material. I just don't think this argument, taken to its logical conclusion, is valid. Is there a better way of reformulating it?

1. Silverstein, K. (2005). Radioactive boy scout: The frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor. Turtleback Books.
For Apple at least, why should it care if its users upgrade their OS? They don't even charge money for the OS (anymore).
I had issues with a chip+signature card already 10 years ago in London. Some bars just didn’t accept it. Probably because they were too lazy to archive the receipts (signing CC transactions on a screen like in the US was never a thing in Europe).
Neat effort, but my one complaint is how much whitespace there is between and around various UI elements, especially in item lists such as in the Start menu and the sidebar of various configuration dialogs. Actual Windows XP hails from an era before visual designers all collectively decided that high information density was bad aesthetics.
I think recently they've started talks with SpaceX to launch with them too, buying 3 launches from them for now, since they got sued by an investor for choosing the more expensive launch options.
You know you've gone off the deep end when you start thinking of Harry Potter as something that contains intentional political messaging instead of something that overuses convenient off-the-shelf tropes for villains and everything else but manages to tell an engaging tale in spite of it.
If the Earth didn't have a huge internal geological reserve of hydrogen (and other gaseous chemicals) we'd effectively be a dead planet. It's easy to lose hydrogen to space, which is one reason we don't see much of it in the atmosphere. When we start talking about geologic timescales it would lead to the disassociation and lose of almost all atmospheric gasses. Luckily we have the tectonic plate cycle that puts new gasses in the atmosphere and kicks our eventual extinction down the road a bit farther. This also leads to earth shrinking over these very long time periods.
Why would you still want to use strace in 2023? [video]
A core 2 duo should still browse the modern web just fine. More than enough CPU power for all but the most JS intensive pages.
https://unhook.app/
What makes Windows XP good relative to modern Windows is what it doesn't have (or doesn't have in comparable amounts): telemetry, advertising, multiple generations of differing UIs with their own styles, a huge installation footprint, online accounts and cloud services tie-ins, dark patterns to trick people into agreeing to the former, tons of bloatware, etc.

A Windows which is a descendant of Windows 8 but is themed like Windows XP is basically worthless and misses the point. It just fetishizes an aesthetic that is in fact only incidentally associated with a less user-hostile era.
Must respectfully say that this company should not be allowed to exist. We are outsourcing state level powers to a completely opaque private entity with zero accountability. This can only end badly.
I can’t wait for proton to become even more mainstream. We need to put pressure on AAA titles to support Linux. Many anti cheats already do but it’s the games themselves that refuse to allow Linux. The faster I can dump windows the better because the only windows install I have is for a dedicated gaming machine.
Indeed. It's a video, they could have shown everything exactly as they like. Yet the decided that it should take a full two seconds from clicking the taskbar icon until Explorer is usable. Are people gaslit into thinking that this is okay or normal that they design their dream software like this? Explorer should (and does) open in an instant on a real system, no loading animations required.
This is spot on. I have had to do KYC for me and my company on a couple of financial sites and I hate to think where that data is saved and what will it actually be used for. And this is mandated by law which is crazy.
Exciting to see this - so many advantages to pebble bed nuclear reactors including inherent safety (no risk of meltdown), use of helium coolant, ease of waste recycling disposal and continuous refuelling by simply adding more pebbles to the hopper.

Illinois Energy Prof has an excellent YT channel on energy, and has a great talk on IV gen reactor design. Saw it 4 years ago, so pumped to see some of the ideas he was talking about get plugged into the grid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mJ3S-VQuHY&t=490s for those who want to know more
> but then they face problems like “do you block YouTube entirely, even though their homework will include links to things like videos from NIH hosted there?”

Tell kids to create list of URLs. Download the videos. They've just learned copy/paste, about existence of URLs, and concept of remote and local. Now they're hackers!
Yeah, I think it's saying the same thing. And, I mean, as an example of how pretextual the content analysis is here, WHYY's HR complained that "the mere mention of 9/11" was disrespectful to those who died that day. It's pretty unserious.

It reads to me like HR at WHYY picked a turf fight and, in losing it, cost WHYY a quarter million dollars. The original HR instigator appears to have been promoted.
I mainly agree with what you’re saying - though I do think we should strive, at a societal level, to better raise opportunity for the less fortunately born. And despite much nihilism, we’ve actually been doing that for a long time now (universal education, public access to roads, electricity etc., less gender discrimination - the list is almost endless). We just have further to go.

Genetics means I'll never be a pro athlete. I play sports but no one has (or ever will) give me spotting 'opportunities'. My sporty friend can't draw, and no one us offering her the opportunity of a gallery show.

I do want to pick this out. I’m of the belief that a lot of political arguments are because people simply don’t understand each other. I think this highlights something.

I don’t (and I don’t think this is unusual) mean by ‘equal opportunity’ that everyone should be just e.g. allowed to be a pro athlete or artist simply because they decide to do so. I mean that they should have the same opportunities to do it if their innate talents mean that they could do it.

I don’t think that anyone means, by ‘equal opportunity’, that we should e.g. abolish qualification requirements (or entry requirements) for med schools - just that kids should all be able to become a doctor if they have the talent and do the work. Now, many people have the talent but don’t even have the opportunity to do the work.

Again, we’ve come a long way on this over the past few hundred years. To use the med school example, there are obviously thousands of good doctors nowadays that would never have even been allowed to try to be a doctor in centuries past. On the other side, I pretty much agree that differences in the circumstances of someone’s birth, family etc. probably mean we’ll never achieve equal opportunity fully. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still strive for it though.
And for many people that’s becoming increasingly harder to do.
It is practical to iterate in other materials. Cardboard would be the simplest to get started on physical form.

Galvanized steel flashings from Home Depot etc. can be hand formed with tin snips, a hammer, and a block of wood. Or you could buy a cheap brake from Harbor Freight, Amazon, etc. Same with a drill press.

Doing it yourself will speed up development and eliminate most if not all of the need for CAD drawings.

Not to mention it will avoid the mental overhead that your question embodies.

Or not, good luck.
It does require a one-off payment of $69 and isn't Free Software (although you can modify the sources after installation on your server).
> Installing Linux 22-years ago, when XP shipped, was hugely painful and only the most technical would attempt it.

That’s still the case with Linux now. I did two recent Linux installs (different distros) and it’s still a nightmare of finding drivers, scripts, etc. to get everything setup. On one of my devices it still doesn’t recognise all the USB ports attached to the motherboard (but does recognise some), I just got tired of trying to discover why. It’s still often the case that BIOS changes are required, etc.

Linux is not accessible to the average non-technical user at all. The moment one thing goes wrong, they’re done.

Windows is going in the wrong direction for sure, but still when it comes to everything “just working”, it’s hard to beat.
This is fucking crazy! Keep the government out of the internet.
Thank you so much for your great work.
But I have some trouble to run.
Could you please help me?

Python Output: Error initializing Porcupine: Initialization failed:
[0] Picovoice Error (code `00000136`)
[1] Picovoice Error (code `00000136`)
[2] Picovoice Error (code `00000136`)

Python script completed with code: 0

checked several times and surely api key(access key) is correct.
And there wasn't any option to change or generate new key.
I guess it doesn't work in demo account.
The "Fisher-Price'ing" [1] of the user interface isn't necessarily better in my view. It took the already big and colorful user interface elements and essentially made them bigger. When the video finally gets past the installer there isn't much that wasn't already a part of XP beyond the added, slow UI animations (which is definitely not an improvement, just look at most UI research and anecdotal griping on the web for the last 15 years).

Yearning for XP is something I can relate to. It feels like the last good UI version of Windows. The video is only a nostalgia trip though. Actual improvements on XP's UI would be:

- Removing the hierarchy and modes Microsoft kept piling on since 3.1. These are endemic in the shell. Both the Start menu and Windows Explorer are rife with them.

- Organizing the Control Panel such that it's thematically grouped. All settings involving the display (and thus graphics sub-system) are in a single place, all networking is controlled in one place, etc.

- Reducing the number and complexity of mouse interactions. Context menus should only be needed for the most exceptional cases. Right clicking to accomplish a task should be rare.

- Near elimination of dialogs. Users mostly dismiss them without reading anyway.

- Reduce, to the degree possible, the need to understand the file system, and its hierarchy, to find one's data and make basic use of the system. Watching people try to understand files and the file system hierarchy is pretty painful.

- Reduce the need to manage individual windows, and introduce a way to intelligently place windows across programs such that the user can juxtapose the applications they need to copy/paste between to get work done with minimal effort.

These are just what's top of mind, and I don't fault the creator of the video for making a tribute to XP. I'll add that a lot of these complaints apply to macOS, but often to a lesser degree. Perhaps I'm the old man yelling at the cloud here [2], but this stuff has been eating away at me for years and there doesn't seem to exist the will to address any of it.

[1] https://shop.mattel.com/pages/fisher-price
[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-man-yells-at-cloud
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