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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain> Well you can also just stop using these products True. But there is a social cost, for now In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to recon… > Well you can also just stop using these products True. But there is a social cost, for now In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to reconstitute it, and now I pay the price But the price gets less as time goes by as Meta killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Their greed and carelessness is making the service less valuable or useful This (ban Virgina Wolf FFS) is another example. If you cannot advertise what you are doing as part of your community, then what is the point? Why be part of a service that no longer links people without fear or favour (Facebook of fifteen years ago) but solely exists to market at you?view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negativeWhat Sun got wrongIt's easier to see in hindsight but servers have eaten a lot of macro economic headwinds. 1999 and 2002 correspond roughly to telecom and dotcom bubbles popping. So open source operating systems were also pulled up into these positions through a lot of work and by the early 2000s it was kind of obvious this was the way… It's easier to see in hindsight but servers have eaten a lot of macro economic headwinds. 1999 and 2002 correspond roughly to telecom and dotcom bubbles popping. So open source operating systems were also pulled up into these positions through a lot of work and by the early 2000s it was kind of obvious this was the way forward. 2008 financial crisis really knocked the high end (RISC/UNIX/Itanium) and started the long migration to renting vs owning. In hindsight it's remarkable how much money used to just be there in the economy of all this. But I guess it still is, considering how expensive public cloud is.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive timeWhat Sun got wrongWith the benefit of perfect hindsight, which is a bit silly? Open source Solaris as early as possible. Really compete with MIPS, ARM, Motorola, etc. in the embedded space. Don't even try to make it a huge financial win, just get the SPARC architecture and dev tools out there with good Linux support. Consistently suppor… With the benefit of perfect hindsight, which is a bit silly? Open source Solaris as early as possible. Really compete with MIPS, ARM, Motorola, etc. in the embedded space. Don't even try to make it a huge financial win, just get the SPARC architecture and dev tools out there with good Linux support. Consistently support Solaris x86 and frequently release new generations of Intel and AMD workstation-class hardware. Partner with TSMC for SPARC production a lot earlier. Since we're just having fun here: acquire Nvidia in 1999, at which time it was pretty obvious workstation graphics was going to be commodified, and Sun could have bought them with their pocket change.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative peopleSamsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMNo, a remarkably farsighted policy that prevented PRC from having to deal with additional 200m-400m subsistent farmers. If anything it wasn't done sooner/aggressive enough. Like you can literally wipe away 200-400m from PRC button quantile and PRC would be net better off due to increase per capita resources and wealth.… No, a remarkably farsighted policy that prevented PRC from having to deal with additional 200m-400m subsistent farmers. If anything it wasn't done sooner/aggressive enough. Like you can literally wipe away 200-400m from PRC button quantile and PRC would be net better off due to increase per capita resources and wealth. This hindsight will be historically obvious in 20-30 years when you see the outcome of India with 1.6B people with 1.2B poor, vs PRC with 1.4B people with 400m poor. The drag of having disproportionate, bluntly, worthless bodies is not linear for governance, and it's not because India hasn't tried aggressive family planning of their own, they simply failed unlike PRC. Who very much regards family planning as largely successful demographic management system that enabled proper allocation of resources away from generating peasants to building industry and the largest pool of high end human talent in recorded history, where frankly any tertiary dividend is worth 50 farmers in terms of productivity.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w neutral timeTelling a Computer to Do ThingsThe more I learn about shell, the less I reach for it for automation scripts, even ones that mainly exist just to shell out to other binaries. I have written a lot of shell in my life, and it turns out (with 20/20 hindsight) that almost all of it was atrociously dangerous and brittle because there are so many ways to s… The more I learn about shell, the less I reach for it for automation scripts, even ones that mainly exist just to shell out to other binaries. I have written a lot of shell in my life, and it turns out (with 20/20 hindsight) that almost all of it was atrociously dangerous and brittle because there are so many ways to screw it up and I didn't know most of them at the time (and still probably don't!).view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive peopleSamsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMStill, a stupid governmental policy cost them at least 100 million people compared to the expected spontaneous development. Probably more. That is the sort of punishment that omnipotent governments sometimes visit upon their folk. I don't believe that even the CCP itself, in hindsight, considers the one-child policy to… Still, a stupid governmental policy cost them at least 100 million people compared to the expected spontaneous development. Probably more. That is the sort of punishment that omnipotent governments sometimes visit upon their folk. I don't believe that even the CCP itself, in hindsight, considers the one-child policy to have been a good decision. At the very least it should have been ended some 15 years earlier.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive knowA Model for Winning SurvivorIn none of those cases did the market converge as a result of the insider betting, it was only discovered with hindsight that someone had placed a suspiciously well-timed large bet. So that's where "they limit their bet amount for other reasons" comes in. I guess it's difficult to get a large loan for "I know a secret … In none of those cases did the market converge as a result of the insider betting, it was only discovered with hindsight that someone had placed a suspiciously well-timed large bet. So that's where "they limit their bet amount for other reasons" comes in. I guess it's difficult to get a large loan for "I know a secret that will allow me to double my money in a few days, honest!" so they have to make do with their savings instead.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative yearsThe Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)I used to have a ViewSonic PC CRT that went up to 2048x1536. Sadly my family didn't realize the worth and tossed it out along with a bunch of other CRTs many years ago. In hindsight we should've tested them all and kept the nicest ones. I used to have a ViewSonic PC CRT that went up to 2048x1536. Sadly my family didn't realize the worth and tossed it out along with a bunch of other CRTs many years ago. In hindsight we should've tested them all and kept the nicest ones.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive donWhat happened to the Snowden archiveOnce again, there was no flex. We aren't judging the morality or ethics of the situation in any direction. We are simply looking back on historical events with hindsight. We also don't have to flatten these historical events into one good side and one bad side. Reality tends to be more complicated than that. It's ok to… Once again, there was no flex. We aren't judging the morality or ethics of the situation in any direction. We are simply looking back on historical events with hindsight. We also don't have to flatten these historical events into one good side and one bad side. Reality tends to be more complicated than that. It's ok to recognize that Snowden maybe made some mistakes. That is neither an endorsement of the US government's spying or an accusation of ill intent against Snowden.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive yearsThe LLMentalist Effect (2023)>I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text. I read that blog years ago. Believe me, my opinions are not hindsight. >Incorrect. He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite tr… >I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text. I read that blog years ago. Believe me, my opinions are not hindsight. >Incorrect. He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite training data and compute.” It’s a thought-experiment, not a prediction. Near-infinite amounts of anything is a fantasy. Thought experiments can generate predicitons. His claim was essentially: If you scale data and compute sufficiently, this technology can learn enough of the underlying structure of mathematics to write proofs. This is meaningful when others around you are saying this is a dead end and that the technology is fundamentally incapable of this regardless of degree of investment and scaling. It shows a much better calibrated sense of the potential of the architecture than those who said otherwise. If your objection is that "near infinite" makes it insufficiently quantitative to count as a falsifiable forecast, then fine. But at that point we're mostly arguing over what deserves the label "prediction" rather than whether Scott correctly identified an important capability the architecture could develop. And i'm not trying to say this makes Scott (or the lesswrong crowd) geniuses.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w neutral yearsThe LLMentalist Effect (2023)If that’s your standard for what counts as prediction, Asimov beat him to it by seventy-ish years. EDIT: > Scott made comments on a specific emerging technology He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite training data and compute.” It’s a thought experiment, not a prediction. Near-infinite… If that’s your standard for what counts as prediction, Asimov beat him to it by seventy-ish years. EDIT: > Scott made comments on a specific emerging technology He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite training data and compute.” It’s a thought experiment, not a prediction. Near-infinite amounts of anything is a fantasy. I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeYou can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflowAnd in more recent games where there is Nuclear Gandhi it's because of that legend. If you write a game in a decent language where such a thing won't happen by mistake you can still have it be present on purpose and in some cases that even fits the game's lore. Random glitches are confusing and bad. Falling off the wor… And in more recent games where there is Nuclear Gandhi it's because of that legend. If you write a game in a decent language where such a thing won't happen by mistake you can still have it be present on purpose and in some cases that even fits the game's lore. Random glitches are confusing and bad. Falling off the world in Blue Prince due to collision bugs is annoying for example. However "glitches" which are intended behaviour are fun. I've enjoyed every time I saw somebody get that note and gift from Mrs Babbage because they drafted that particular room in that particular place and it had an effect which in hindsight they now realise was both foreseeable and regrettable...view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative thinkLawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdownSurely there are enough experts that think there's a risk that at least considering corrective action will not retrospectively look silly? (Except perhaps with hindsight bias.) They may well be wrong, but I'm not sure you can dismiss them so easily. And the fact it is a prisoner dilemma problem doesn't mean it's unsolv… Surely there are enough experts that think there's a risk that at least considering corrective action will not retrospectively look silly? (Except perhaps with hindsight bias.) They may well be wrong, but I'm not sure you can dismiss them so easily. And the fact it is a prisoner dilemma problem doesn't mean it's unsolvable, sure it makes it hard, but we have made _some_ progress on climate change and that's a prisoner dilemma problem.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive peopleI built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year agoI think OP, as said on Reddit, wanted to get a lot of investment and ride the wave but did not know how to. This was said as such on Reddit today by them. This is indeed a shame especially it was a year earlier but indeed a lack of marketing; many people on Reddit told what to do in this case, in hindsight, it’s worth … I think OP, as said on Reddit, wanted to get a lot of investment and ride the wave but did not know how to. This was said as such on Reddit today by them. This is indeed a shame especially it was a year earlier but indeed a lack of marketing; many people on Reddit told what to do in this case, in hindsight, it’s worth checking it out imho.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positive timeLearning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthyYes, it's possible. For me it went like this. 1. I learned enough vocabulary in a very short time to be able to more or less be able to read with the assistance of a dictionary on an e-book where you can click on a word. I spent ~2 weekends of Duolingo 8 hours a day, but I'd use flashcards in the future instead of that… Yes, it's possible. For me it went like this. 1. I learned enough vocabulary in a very short time to be able to more or less be able to read with the assistance of a dictionary on an e-book where you can click on a word. I spent ~2 weekends of Duolingo 8 hours a day, but I'd use flashcards in the future instead of that. It sounds a bit crazy in hindsight, but I feel like it was easier to stay strongly motivated for a short period of time than drizzling the words over a period of time. All other attempts where I did not do this, failed. The limit of learning words for me is ~50-200 words per hour if using flashcards. It depends a lot on the language and how similar it is to the languages one already knows. 200, if it is similar to my native language, ~50, if I don't know anything similar at all. I'm also almost guaranteed to forget 80% of the words, if I don't use them in the next day or two, but its possible to cram a lot of them very fast and then move on to stage 2 to use them. Important catch (for me at least), is that I can remember nouns far more easily than verbs or other more abstract/structural words. Those absolutely need to be in a sentence when learning. There's pretty much no point for me in trying to cram them on their own. I just cannot remember them in isolation at all and also which words they are used with differ per language anyway. Eg "to put" won't necessarily be used for all nouns in a different language even though a dictionary might say that's what it means. The good side is that knowing the nouns helps a lot in deciphering. 2. After the initial cramming I read a couple of short/simple books over some months in the evenings before sleep. I tried to listen to videos & to talk to some people a bit now and then, but it was extremely hard and boring as I understood too little. In hindsight I should have listened more to videos, but the good ones are surprisingly hard to find, if you don't live in the country that already speaks the language one isview source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positiveTwo parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brainI learned of the Triune Brain through Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden . It was an engaging, story-telling approach to a somewhat, in hindsight controversial concept. It sounds (oversimplified) like the paper the article describes here is an embryological validation of this model. I learned of the Triune Brain through Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden . It was an engaging, story-telling approach to a somewhat, in hindsight controversial concept. It sounds (oversimplified) like the paper the article describes here is an embryological validation of this model.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative donAI-generated posters don’t have to be horribleexactly. Hindsight is 20/20. exactly. Hindsight is 20/20.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w positiveHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsHere is the peer reviewed publication in Nature Neuroscience: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 The peer reviewed publication is linked to from the press release. The press release's headline does somewhat overhype up the actual finding though. The actual finding is that different parts of the brain ar… Here is the peer reviewed publication in Nature Neuroscience: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 The peer reviewed publication is linked to from the press release. The press release's headline does somewhat overhype up the actual finding though. The actual finding is that different parts of the brain arise from different neural ectoderm progenitors, which explains why it’s so hard to get a forebrain neuron to behave like a hindbrain neuron and vice versa in the lab. The paper then postulates that this difference in progenitors resembles being two different organs evolutionarily, but this is not really the most important part of the paper. BTW I suspect that this finding comes as completely unsurprising to biologists and the medical field generally. I'm not in either field, but even in high school biology we learned that the brain stem is behaviorally and structurally radically different from the rest of the brain, to the point where it seems almost obvious in hindsight that it's a different cell line and potentially has a different evolutionary history from the rest of the brain.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 1w negative timeHow OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip> I remember the paper proving that hallucinations could never be fully solved back in 2024 The papers that use the halting problem or the Gödel's incompleteness theorem to prove something about LLMs are dime a dozen. The problem is they prove their results for any computable system. You need to also believe that the h… > I remember the paper proving that hallucinations could never be fully solved back in 2024 The papers that use the halting problem or the Gödel's incompleteness theorem to prove something about LLMs are dime a dozen. The problem is they prove their results for any computable system. You need to also believe that the human brain contains "magic" to think that humans are exempt. I believe I've said the same at the time this paper was published. There is no need for hindsight to notice the problem. The required amount of compute and training data and whether the existing training methods were up to the task had the real potential to be show stoppers though.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w positive timeNvidia announces native GPU programming in RustWhen I started what you did was nothing but set up DMA streams to set registers. DMA sets registers, hardware reacts by rasterizing triangles. In the GeForce3 era, the registers got complicated enough they resembled tiny "pixel shaders", but under the hood it was still a small struct held in registers. Vertex shaders w… When I started what you did was nothing but set up DMA streams to set registers. DMA sets registers, hardware reacts by rasterizing triangles. In the GeForce3 era, the registers got complicated enough they resembled tiny "pixel shaders", but under the hood it was still a small struct held in registers. Vertex shaders were 1 to 128 asm instructions executed strictly linearly. In the G80 era we got "general purpose shaders." But, they still depend heavily on the fix function pipeline for their dispatch/scheduling and I/O. These days, everything is basically a dressed-up compute shader. The shared-memory SRAM is front-and-center in your attention. Dispatch and scheduling are manual and complicated. GPUs are transitioning into tensor evaluators. So, maybe today we can start considering talking about planning committee meetings about stability. But, what I've observed is that this has been a request for a few decades now. And, in hindsight it would not have worked out in the past. Moving forward, maybe it would work out OK today for a while. But, I don't see the rate of change in GPUs slowing down any time soon. Wouldn't be surprised if we're racing towards some Cerebras + Tensor Cores + FPGA near future.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w positive timeOpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. BehaviorOf course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved without the benefit of hindsight, giv… Of course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved without the benefit of hindsight, given that we've seen no technology like this until just 4 years ago. If there was a case to be made for criminal negligence, I would say it would be with the AI-assisted suicides, and lawsuits are pending but we've not seen anything come out of that yet. > Go look up the facts of weev's case. weev's intent was very obviously benign and prosocial. Oh I'm very familiar with the case, which is why I know the investigation revealed detailed chat logs where weev and his accomplice discussed multiple ways to illegally profit from the breach, including shorting AT&T stock, selling the data to spammers / phishers, or organizing a spamming / phishing operation themselves. I am very curious about what sources led you to associate the words "prosocial" and "benign" because weev is very, very, very clearly a noxious, antisocial person who spends a lot of his time harassing people. I would recommend you feed "weev criticism" into a Google AI overview. Random quote from his wikipedia: > In early October 2014, The Daily Stormer published an article by Auernheimer in which he effectively identified himself as a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. He is known for his "extremely violent rhetoric advocating genocide of non-whites", according to the SPLC. And as you said, he got off on a technicality. That case was heralded as a triumph of justice purely because it followed the rule of law despite the obviously unlawful intents of the defendant.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negativeCloudflare Quick TunnelsIn hindsight, that was probably a confusing sentence. I was more pointing out how much traffic flows trough their systems which ends up making it an attractive honeypot, especially as a U.S. company. In hindsight, that was probably a confusing sentence. I was more pointing out how much traffic flows trough their systems which ends up making it an attractive honeypot, especially as a U.S. company.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w positive timeSex, AI, and the ApocalypseRevisiting after 10 years, it was nice reading through all those virtues again. Thank you for sharing the link. After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time. But the content i… Revisiting after 10 years, it was nice reading through all those virtues again. Thank you for sharing the link. After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time. But the content is solid as a general path to correctness and truth. In hindsight, a lot of those virtues were not just good, but correct. The nameless void at the end is the most potent of them all.view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negativeAWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by IranI feel like this is hindsight bias, and in a different scenario you'd be saying "not hosting your infrastructure in a DC without AWS level diesel backup contracts is even better". Which I already said, and you ignored. Anyway, it's all moot, because the military will now also spread out. You can go with "Joe's pizza an… I feel like this is hindsight bias, and in a different scenario you'd be saying "not hosting your infrastructure in a DC without AWS level diesel backup contracts is even better". Which I already said, and you ignored. Anyway, it's all moot, because the military will now also spread out. You can go with "Joe's pizza and cloud services", hoping there aren't enough military workloads there, but where are you more likely to have an outage?view source ↗
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Y Hacker News 2w negative timeEverybody's Lost Their MindsAt the time: 1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts! 2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories and crackpots and experts and armchair-experts spouting all kinds of shit. It was… At the time: 1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts! 2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories and crackpots and experts and armchair-experts spouting all kinds of shit. It was tiring to open a web browser. 3. No vaccine. No vaccine for at least a year. You just have to wait for this tidal wave of sickness to hit you and everyone around you. 4. I recall seeing on the news what was happening in Italy. March 2020, something like 600 people a day dying of covid. Italy's hospitals were being overrun with covid patients. It wasn't obvious who needed treatment and help to survive the night and who could just go home and be (quite) miserable for a bit. There were so many unknowns! Hospital overrun resulted in not just covid patients dying but also anyone else who needed to go to the emergency department was affected to some degree. Partly because the system didn't have the capacity and partly because you'd catch covid on top of the reason you were there. The systems were choking. I was in Melbourne the whole time, through every lockdown. Everyone has an opinion on whether it was the right thing to do, but for me, it was the society agreed upon (via authority and literal epidemiologist expert guidance) way to avoid killing a single digit % of the population. Don't get me wrong, I was so fucking sick of being couped up... but I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I had've put some of my neighbours through that first wave harsh covid. I couldn't say as to whether it would have killed some of them. Yes, many people had it rough in so many different ways. Bureaucratic shit was being made up almost day to day and people were also trying to scam it day to day. So it isn't surprising shit happened. Everyone has a story. However, to say "We should have.." belies the fact that hindsight is easy and recollection is rose tinted.view source ↗