skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes things in the foreground have very sharp edges and seem brighter than the things in the background. They call it "soap opera effect" because it reminds you of the way those sets and people are lit.

But also--never seemingly noticed--the technology leads to very crisp changes in direction of the camera panning. So you see a very smooth pan, stopping with no deceleration period, and then a quick new pan in a different direction, with no acceleration. It's disorienting and makes everything look fake. IMO this is the most annoying part, but it's hard to identify and articulate.
> Isn't this the exact opposite of what you want security wise?

Quite the opposite, I'd say? Everything needed is source controlled (and signed, if commits are signed).

Also, all the metadata can be queried by the ide (any ide) via an LSP. can you do that with the xml from maven/ant ?

I like this 1JPM so much I might adopt it for all my personal java projects.
I'm sorry, I find this simplistic.

I often am impatient with people not because I am obstinate or stubborn or persistent, but because some new ideas require a new mindset. For example, let us suppose - just for argument - that the great failing of the internet is that it prevents community. I'm just saying suppose.

If one then foolishly tried to discuss this, one would be inundated with comments about Facebook, X (or is it Y?) and on and on. None of this is helpful or even interesting because the context/mind set is wrong.

Once we decide the world is not flat (even if just for the sake of argument) a discussion of where you will fall off and what will happen to you when you fall off, is not interesting. Or helpful.

To my mind then, the issue of stubborn or obstinate people is not innovators - it is the inability to examine or even imagine a new mindset. Which is too bad because that is the fun part.
You are correct! I think it does a little more (restoring cursor if hidden, etc). If you have it, it is probably better than `stty sane`
Sanity check – effectiveness/goodness of Trans Rescue? (2023)
> Bitwarden does have an option for that.

That’s good to know, thanks!
Reminds me a lot of Infinite Craft (https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/).

The generative part of language models can make for really fun "single-player" games where you're really competing with the inventiveness of the language model, so there's some sense that you're playing a game with infinite hidden complexity.
Not that I'm aware of. I hope that their new relationship with Canva gives them the resources to add AI for some features. that might be a 3.0 version.
This is cool but for people without access to all the tools, a much easier way is to just upload your design to Shapeways.com and let them take care of all the casting. (https://www.shapeways.com/materials/gold)

You can also have your design done in brass first for relatively cheap, to validate the design.

I made our wedding rings that way, as well as quite a bit of jewelry over the years for my spouse. (pendants, earrings, etc...)
Because it's also part of their culture.
Nay-sayers exist too, but I think they are out of scope for what PG is talking about. He's talking about the people actually working on solving a problem, not someone on the sidelines.
> The Nazi Party wasn't particularly popular in Germany until the great depression, but I've never seen it described as having been viewed as insane or conspiratorial by Germans of the time.

Some of the core beliefs underpinning Nazism were based on bizarre occultism and antisemitic conspiracy theories. I suppose people simply ignored or brushed off what they didn't like, much as they do with QAnon politicians today.

> Regardless of the often overused WWII analogies, how would banning voter rights work in your example of QAnon and the Republican Party?

I never said anything about banning voters. I was just lamenting how easily the crazies can coalesce and gather power these days. Don't know what the solution is. Maybe we're just doomed.
Glad folks are enjoying this silly project! If you want to know more, I wrote something about it back when I made it:

https://hoffm.medium.com/hey-look-at-us-3a742993f5c
> I'm gonna need to see some data on that.

It’s enabled by default on all smart TVs. Q.E.D.
That's a nice fairy tale that they probably tell their kids when asked, but what the profitable firms are doing at the cutting edge is inducing responses in the other guys' robots, in a phase that the antagonist controls, then trading against what they know is about to happen. It is literally market manipulation. A way to kill off this entire field of endeavor is to charge a tax on cancelled orders.
The sibling comments who think you need to jump back to EFI to solve this, are thinking in layer-ossified terms. This is Redhat proposing this, and they're perfectly confident in upstreaming kernel patches to make this happen.

I would assume that in their proposed solution, the kernel would have logic to check for a CMDLINE flag (or rather, lack of any CMDLINE flags!) to indicate that it's operating in bootloader mode; and if decides that it is, then it never calls ExitBootServices. All the EFI stuff stays mapped for the whole lifetime of the kernel.

(Also, given that they call this a "unified kernel image", I presume that in the case where the kernel decides to boot the same kernel image that's already loaded in memory as the bootloader, then nothing like a kexec needs to occur — rather, that's the point at which the kernel calls ExitBootServices (basically to say "I'm done with caring about being able to potentially boot into something else now"), and transitions from "phase 1 initramfs for running bootload-time logic" into "phase 2 initramfs to bootstrap a multi-user userland.")
Google will never stop spying themselves but will give you the ability to stop their competitors from spying on you. Heh..
It is definitely more like Photoshop than Lightroom. You'll need to look elsewhere if you need file management.
Bid/ask spreads are far narrower than they were previously. If you look at the profits of the HFT industry as a whole they aren't that large (low billions) and their dollar volume is in the trillions. Hard to argue that the industry is wildly prosocial but making spreads narrower does mean less money goes to middlemen.
I used to have this type of rating on my resume when I started my career. Over 10 years later, I can tell that today it wouldn't communicate anything.

At most you could convey that you're more proficient in language A than language B.
Under the carpet deals would make it less transparent. It would be hard to detect that top manager sold all his stock to competitors and now is making decisions in their favor.
A couple fun facts about casting metals:

Many of them shrink when they solidify. For the size and tolerances needed for a ring you can probably ignore this detail. You can get what is called a low-shrink mold made for some alloys that helps mitigate this if you want to make your prototype to finished size (or you didn't know better before you takes to the jeweler).

Patternmakers deal with this using what are called shrink rules. They look like regular rules, but are e.g. 5% longer. If you're buying an old rule, make sure you don't get one by mistake.

Silver rings, worn regularly, won't need to be polished to keep the tarnish at bay; the contact from your skin will do quite well enough. Our wedding rings are also silver, and I've only polished mine when I haven't worn it for a while. Ours probably don't polish up to quite the same luster though. They're a regular alloy of silver for jewelry and not silver and gold.
Sort of, except it's automated.

Basically, System A's kernel boots. But, instead of immediately loading the System A userland, it loads a boot menu of systems that it reads from UEFI NVRAM and presents it to the user. So you select System B from the list, the menu sets BootNext in NVRAM and issues a reboot.

In practice, the main UX difference is that it takes a bit longer and you'll see the UEFI vendor splash screen again after selecting the boot option.

I'm not a user of Windows anymore but I seem to recall Windows doing something quite similar, where it had a boot menu that felt suspiciously like it was inside of Windows, and to actually change the boot target, it had to reboot.
Thank you for this comment. I was assuming that meteor died some time ago when mongo was getting a hiding and Apollo/graphql came on the scene. I'm glad you pointed this out (that it isn't dead) and that infact they are releasing v3 soon (from a quick website scan)
The fact you got downvoted is very amusing and, ironically, perfect evidence of what you're describing.

The problem is there's no HN equivalent for tech people in Europe. So they're stuck here, hanging out with a bunch of Americans bragging about how big their salaries are and how Americans in tech are all getting fabulously rich (and they actually are).

Imagine the level of resentment that creates! You're just as competent an engineer, yet instead of financial freedom in <10 years, you get stuck making 1/5th as much in a lifer "IT" job at some lame industrial company running on autopilot just because you were born in the wrong country.

So what do you do? Take a risk and build something of your own? Nahhh. Too much work.

It's much easier to rationalize the discomfort away by recasting yourself as the hero of the story.

"Sure, I have to ask my government for permission to retire at 70 (hopefully), but that's because I'm actually the morally superior one! Those American tech innovations are all evil, and the people who use them are getting duped by a bunch of conmen! LLMs are worthless, I don't need their latest tech fads anyways!" ...And so on, and so on.
Honestly, they could be. Their feelings of aggression are not evidence of a factual basis for them.

I actually think this is better examined not as winners-losers, but costs-benefits, because most people will be experiencing both the “winning” side and the “losing” side simultaneously.
> lost wax casting, of course, since 3D printing wasn't a thing

Just to nitpick, even with 3D printing these days, the process is still called lost wax casting. The printer prints a wax version of the model, and then the plaster is poured around it to make a mold and the wax model is melted out.

The only difference is that the wax model is made by a 3d printer rather than by hand.
Let’s try some real world examples: are the two current presidential candidates obstinate or persistent?
The cycle of reading rage-bait, discovering it was misleading, and saying "well I wouldn't be surprised if it had been true", is essentially the poison killing us.
Most domain registrars require providing identity details. Even if these details are private, a single leak or a config mistake on this domain will expose your real identity, tied to all aliases. With an alias service or a shared email provider you don't have this risk as you don't have to provide your real-life identity.

So while it's tempting to use one random alias (h3hj4gjh234@yourdomain.com) for a high-risk service and another alias for a critical service (github@yourdomain.com), these aliases are easily identifiable as belonging to the same person.
I still don't understand what that means. I've never sat down to watch a soap opera, so I have no idea what they look like.
I wish this article hit on an important point: when should the persistent quit? We all know we should know when to hold and when to fold, but in practice that's a hard decision to make especially when we're invested. And someone who is "persistent" vs "obstinate" should be able to do this: quit when it's right to do so.

The closest thing he mentions is this, "persistence often requires that one change one's mind. That's where good judgement comes in. The persistent are quite rational. They focus on expected value."

Following that, if I'm working on x thing, and the expected value is < some other big thing, I should quit and start the other thing.

But there should be a "grass is always greener on the other side" counter weight - some other thing may LOOK like higher expected value, but that's because you don't know the shit under the hood.

I would've liked him to have touched on this, as I don't think you can truly call someone persistent but not obstinate unless they can actually walk away from something if necessary.
I like poetry but I’m not sure the Python ecosystem is disciplined enough for it, all too often I get stuck trying to resolve dependencies between packages which should be compatible but the dependencies weren’t defined well
I have to assume you haven’t bothered reading this, because section 2.3 points out flaws in the methodology of the studies looked at which the methodology in this study kind of tries to address (whether or not it’s a good job of it is left for everyone else to figure out). You shouldn’t dismiss a result out of hand because it doesn’t fit preconceived notions, but it’s absolutely a reason to try to dig in to the methodology of the new study and make sure it’s not flawed.

That said, this meta-analysis is also filled with some crazy statements. It seems to imply sexual dimorphism is only really visible in repro organs but women necessarily need to have wider hips to facilitate child birth among other differences.

This obvious point should have also been noted when comparing differences in organ mass, since mothers of babies with larger heads are more likely to die so this is selected against. Not an issue with lungs, heart etc., hence larger % differences in sexes there.

These aren’t egregious omissions in and of themselves, but it’s certainly useful context I’d like to have were I not familiar with sexual dimorphism.

The dismissiveness of a 1.6 fold increase in SDN size of human males compared to human women is bad. That’s enormous! Not something I would prepend with “only” and repeatedly call “small”, even when not comparing the differences between M/F humans and M/F rodents.

Bizarre that none of the authors objected to this phrasing, because it’s poisoned reading the rest of this paper for me. How am I meant to trust the authors’ opinion of what a “small” difference is?

Some of the points are a bit more compelling, like in section 5.1 where they point out that a difference attributed to M/F was replicated in much smaller size by concentrating on volume instead, or in 5.2 where they point out a few papers that missed crucial nuance.

But overall after reading a few thousand words of this, the nicest thing I can say about it is that I agree that it is indeed gigantic.
My 2013 Panasonic plasma is still going strong with AppleTV as the primary input source.
the latent space is so deep, you may never run out of possibilities...
Pretty sure the B&H website still doesn't take or process orders during Shabbat too.
Most author's don't even make money from their books. Publishers take a massive chunk out of any profits they make, leaving them with barely anything.

So even if you buy the book, the author isn't really getting that much, they're probably still starving. The truth is it's the publishers that's not getting paid, and that's why all these lawsuits are happening. The political power one needs to even get someone extradited alone implies it's not just random authors banding together to sue, it's powerful rich publishers, someone with political connections. And prosecutors are going all out it seems, piling on BS charges of money laundering??

I hope the zadmins win. Maybe the ACLU can get in on this to drop the case, but they generally only take open-shut cases in their favor sadly.
I thought this was going to cover RS232 implementations. Oh well, next time :-)
Apple watch has this feature
Yes, I would love to have a 3D CAD problem for modeling a new deck or a raise garden bed but most of the tools are just way out of budget for that.
> Almost everyone who is persistent or obstinant has something to prove.

In other words they want to increase their relative status in their community.
> My Moto phone always blanks the screen when you are talking,

I don't know exactly what model of phone you have, but most smartphones have a proximity sensor which is used to intelligently blank the screen only when it is at your head. Not uncommonly this sensor gets dusty or dirty, causing the issue you describe.
Self-healing material for cosmic ray damaged satellites
Roblox Open Sources Real-Time Voice Safety Model
I've thought about doing this sort of thing, maybe a max number of visitors per day, for a blog, as an anti-going-viral measure
Obligatory GoatCounter plug: https://www.goatcounter.com

It's also cookieless, the hosted version is free to use within reason, and it's extremely lightweight if you choose to self-host it. It doesn't even need a separate database, it can run self-contained with SQLite (or Postgres if you prefer). A good fit for small sites where the big industrial-grade solutions are overkill.
> I dare you to take the same position about not paying workers for any other career.

Everyone deserves to get paid for their work. Once.

Past that requires a bargain with the public.

The bargain was that the public would yield their rights for 14 years, for works that promoted the progress of science and the useful arts. The public could gift another 14 years to the creator.

The bargain has been altered. Prayers to not alter it further are never answered.

More and more years have been taken from public - almost entirely without the public's consent, typically as quietly as possible and always in response to piles of campaign cash from massive IP interests.

And if it were creators that were the ~sole (or even primary) beneficiaries of purchased and ever-ratcheting copyright extensions, maybe the public would be willing to forgive the immoral methods used to arrive here.

But creators didn't buy modern IP laws and most of that wealth is not flowing into creator's pockets. If we're looking for bad behavior to be angry at, there are a lot of deserving recipients.

I'd even argue that some blame should go to creators that remained silent while corrupt copyright laws were purchased in their names.
I agree it's sad that I'm the only one finding your stuff interesting, but have you noticed these charts almost always have US in the middle. The New Middle Kingdom or what?!! Those high trust barbarians (of New Old Rome!!)..

Would you prefer the drained brains from countries where social competence has been depressed due to high trust coddling, or from countries with highly evolved, dense ecologies of social predators? One of them is a learning experience!
> If you can suggest a mechanism for actually making this happen, enforcing it in the face of economic incentives, and measuring it's actual impact then I'll take the ride with you.

:)
14 years was considered good enough back when it was prohibitively expensive to publish anything and worldwide distribution was basically impossible. Today, when publishing is essentially free and worldwide distribution happens at close to light speed you think we should expand copyright for another year?

I lean more towards 7-10 years, with required registration involving a DRM free copy of the work submitted to the US copyright office (where possible) who will automatically host that file for free once the copyright term has expired. There should be an RSS feed from copyright.gov with download links to the latest works entering the public domain. That'd also make it dead simple to find who you need to contact if you want to negotiate rights to use a work still under copyright's protection.

I agree that anything getting public funding should be public domain on day one (normal exceptions for national security etc)
I've also used Inkscape to do the image tracing and export to SVG. I don't like Inkscape for other purposes but it is useful for that.
"The other day I asked what folks on Mastodon find confusing about working in the terminal, and one thing that stood out to me was "editing a command you already typed in".

This really resonated with me: even though entering some text and editing it is a very "basic" task, it took me maybe 15 years of using the terminal every single day to get used to using Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of the line (or Ctrl+E for the end)."

Only took me a year or so to get used to using "v" in vi mode and fc. I am not a "developer" but I prefer textmode command line to GUI. I do not use X11/Wayland/etc.

I learned sh on NetBSD which I still think is one of the best shells available. It's fast. vi mode is the default. People may disagree but I think for editing single a line of text, i.e., a "command", vi mode offers more precision. For example, being able to jump directly to a particular column number.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240528201424if_/https://pubs.o...

#list previous commands
fc -l
#edit 5th command on the list
fc 5

IMO, as a dumb computer user who is not a "developer", this is not complicated. I think terminal emulators are complicated, though. I do not use them.

I believe fc came to POSIX from ksh.

For me, it is not that UNIX is objectively good. It is that the available alternatives are still comparatively bad.
I bought my first house for 650k (Brisbane) just before covid. It’s now worth about 1M. 350k appreciation in ~4 years - bonkers. Glad I got it then since I probably wouldn’t be able to buy it now.

You can still get a place in the 700k area but it’s a lot further out, a lot older and will likely need a lot more work. That said many in our generation inherited the boomer attitude of big house and big backyard - I think expectations need to change, but negative gearing really needs to go.
Startmail.com and Protonmail.com allow responding from alias email addresses.
Some friends and family are likely to be on HN, and I'd assume probably don't want to see speculation like that.
Good craftsmen drink beer.
I got 3 captcha in a row in the same chat session earlier this morning. I'm a paying customer using ChatGPT Plus. In the afternoon it look it was solved.
Agreed, and it is a microcosm of the discussion in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908142) about who benefits from tourism spending.

Perhaps if people were spending €8 at Abuela Rosa's Tortas instead of €6 at Taco Bell, a Yum! Brands experience brought to you by TriBrands Global the locals would be more welcoming.
According to these links, it's not a fork.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40896408
I start tapping as soon as the screen blanks, probably twice a second. I find this to be best for all BIOS/UEFI interfaces.
What's condemning Linux to negligible market share is lack of preinstalls. Virtually no one used Windows, either, until Microsoft did everything short of coercing OEMs to bundle and preinstall it during the 3.x era.
True, though one of the strengths of Affinity is that their files work in both Photo and Designer. You can open in each app and use a tool and then switch back.
> What really bugs me are the "Remastered" versions of songs on Spotify that sound like … [a] soulless robo-producer repaint job.

Spotify serves up a stereo version of The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You" that completely destroys the atmosphere of the song. It's nearly criminal.
It pained me to do this. Everyone I talked to used React instead of Svelte. At some point, we realized we were spending half the time supporting Svelte just for ourselves for <10% of the return.

I still love Svelte and will continue using it for side projects but right now I think the tech needs to get out of the way of the better user experience.
You can argue on the basis of principles that tourism is bad. The fact remains that tourism cannot be stopped cold-turkey without massive job loss as seen during covid. If you wish to stop tourism and preserve the well being of the people that depend on its income, then you need a plan for what replaces tourism and how to re-skill your workforce. There’s clearly no such plan in place.