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by echelon | 2025-06-11 20:49:12+00:00
BabylonJS and the OP's own Aframe [1] seem to have similar licenses, similar number of Github stars and forks, although Aframe seems newer and more game / VR focused.

How do Babylon, Aframe, Three.js, and PlayCanvas [2] compare from those that have used them?

IIUC, PlayCanvas is the most mature, featureful, and performant, but it's commercial. Babylon is the featureful 3D engine, whereas Three.js is fairly raw. Though it has some nice stuff for animation, textures, etc., you're really building your own kit.

Any good experiences (or bad) with any of these?

OP, your demo is rock solid! What's the pitch for Aframe?

How do you see the "gaussian splat" future panning out? Will these be useful for more than visualizations and "digital twins" (in the industrial setting)? Will we be editing them and animating them at any point in the near future? Or to rephrase, when (or will) they be useful for the creative and gaming fields?

[1] https://github.com/aframevr/aframe

[2] https://playcanvas.com/
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-11 20:49:18+00:00
> The joy of creating should be in the creation

> I think LLMs are the most interesting paintbrush-for-words we've come up with since the typewriter

I cannot reconcile these thoughts in my head

For me, the joy of creating does not come from asking the computer to create something for me. It doesn't matter what careful prompt I made, I did not create the outcome. The computer did

And no, this is not the same as other computer tools. A drawing tablet may offer tools to me, but I still have to create myself

AI is not a "tool" it is the author

Prompt engineers are editors at best
by CMay | 2025-06-11 20:49:24+00:00
The US is unique compared to basically every other country on Earth, so an actual constitutional crisis would take more here than in other countries.

A constitutional crisis would be if an entire generation of Americans across a majority of states were educated to hate the constitution. It would be if the military only served the president rather than the constitution, but in reality the military serves the constitution first and foremost and operates across many states. It would be if the supreme court was getting filled with judges that do not believe in the spirit of the constitution.

If someone does something that is actually against the constitution, it's not necessarily a crisis so long as it doesn't set a precedent to ignore the application of the constitution there in an unrecoverable momentum kind of way. That said, what Trump is doing here is neither against the constitution or even unprecedented.
by jand | 2025-06-11 20:50:02+00:00
> I am a bit confused on the "bypass" though. Wouldn't the adversary need push access to the repository to edit the workflow file? So, the portion that needs hardening is ensuring the wrong people do not have access to push files to the repository?

I understand it that way, too. But: Having company-wide policies in place (regarding actions) might be misunderstood/used as a security measure for the company against malicious/sloppy developers.

So documenting or highlighting the behaviour helps the devops guys avoid a wrong sense of security. Not much more.
by valgor | 2025-06-11 20:51:17+00:00
I love the idea of computational experiments that replace testing on animals. Reading about what we do to animals in the name of science is heart breaking, but learning there are computational models and experiments being developed to take place of animal cruelty is exciting. However, such projects feel overwhelming given I know next to nothing about biology, and I'm not sure spending the time learning is worth the payout given my age and other areas of expertise.
by rickydroll | 2025-06-11 20:51:41+00:00
Yes, item 4 does exist. Tesla and Sunrun both have virtual power plants. Tesla operates as a peaker plant, while Sunrun is a base-load plant.

What I want is different in terms of its organization. The intention is to establish a local community microgrid that anyone with the necessary equipment can participate in. I think the biggest problem will be the accounting, but that's my blind spot
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-11 20:52:16+00:00
Especially in the US, where non-tech folks have shown time and time again they don't care about privacy, and will happily trade all of their personal information over for useful products and features.

I know several people who were actually excited for Recall, rather than horrified by it.

It's a reminder that generally, what techies on HN (and especially Reddit) think is generally the opposite of the general population.
by username223 | 2025-06-11 20:52:17+00:00
This. We spent decades dealing with SQL injection attacks, where user input would spill into code if it weren't properly escaped. The only reliable way to deal with SQLI was bind variables, which cleanly separated code from user input.

What would it even mean to separate code from user input for an LLM? Does the model capable of tool use feed the uninspected user input to a sandboxed model, then treat its output as an opaque string? If we can't even reliably mix untrusted input with code in a language with a formal grammar, I'm not optimistic about our ability to do so in a "vibes language." Try writing an llmescape() function.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-11 20:52:25+00:00
It's not unusual for people to use the name they know you by. In high school, there was someone who addressed me as Ix, the name I used in multiplayer Duke Nukem. He didn't know my name.

There are several people I know primarily through wechat, where it's almost always unnecessary to address people by name because messages have only one recipient. Sometimes this has led to conversations like this:

> What should I call you? 颖？

> OK.

[I was not especially reassured by that response.]
by tehjoker | 2025-06-11 20:52:31+00:00
This was an interesting read, but I didn't understand exactly what leads to the big crunch. I get the exclusion principle leads to pressure, and this causes the bounce, but why would it continue to accelerate and then decelerate resulting in a big crunch?

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.1...
by fidotron | 2025-06-11 20:52:55+00:00
They're right too. "Let's install random drivers to get the USB serial to work" etc.

Working on it was one of the motivations for https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella where I'm basically trying to control more from the access point since I believe these devices need strict separation from everything else. (That code also is essentially a golang superset of the C++ on the device).
by boogieknite | 2025-06-11 20:53:07+00:00
a lot of the time its just a nickname. public schools in the US are huge and then when it comes to sports the athletes are visiting other schools. before i knew it id meet 12 new Jakes every year so everyone goes by nicknames or last name

theres an occasional phenomenon in the US, often referenced in sitcoms, where an individuals entire first and last name sticks as their "nickname"
by hirvi74 | 2025-06-11 20:53:33+00:00
I have met the man that was allegedly in charge of a lot of the operational management or something of the like for those trains at one time! He has a fully operational train track with various functioning trains in his front yard. He has quite the collection too.

He has a little festival every year on his property:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuibCgyBqJM
by meindnoch | 2025-06-11 20:54:36+00:00
I've read somewhere an article which posited that our 3D universe might be inside a 4D black hole. When you cross a black hole's event horizon, the radial coordinate becomes timelike, so you lose one degree of spatial freedom. Movement is still possible in the tangential directions however, so what you get is basically an N-1 dimensional universe. So maybe our 3D universe is actually matter that fell into a 4D black hole, and our 3D black holes contain 2D flatland universes. And of course, the outer 4D universe might be in a 5D black hole, etc.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-11 20:54:55+00:00
I believe Fervo Energy is doing a scheme with two boreholes, one for sending down water, the other for bringing it back up. The two wells will be connected by a fracture zone.

There's another company, XGS Energy, that's working on a single well system of the kind you're describing. Their trick is a highly thermally conductive material that can be injected into fractures around the borehole to increase its thermal conductivity. Since the rock near the borehole contributes much of the thermal resistance, this will not have to be injected too far to have a significant effect.

https://jpt.spe.org/hot-rock-slurry-developer-of-emerging-ge...

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250326123552/en/XGS...

Fervo's advances in drilling technology would go well with this other company's technology.
by molticrystal | 2025-06-11 20:55:20+00:00
If the crux of the article is the fermion bounce, and you compare that to how much matter and energy we are aware of, that is quite the black hole, which leads one to start wondering what environment it existed in to become that size. Even if it is now stuck due to a positive curvature of just bouncing back and forth.

I would like the article to acknowledge a bit more though that blackhole universe theories and speculation are quite old now, not radical and a striking alternative, as it is natural to think about it once you learn of the concept of event horizons. What differentiates this though is the analytical solution.
by joshvm | 2025-06-11 20:55:20+00:00
These do exist but they're remarkably expensive and the infrastructure is apparently terrible. Several companies sell "smart led displays" that people use to show their follower counts while streaming. There's no reason you couldn't make one and have it subscribe to ntfy or something like that. But adoption seems ropey because the use cases are always clocks and $200 for a screen is a big ask for most people.

See the "tidybyt" https://www.theverge.com/23303371/tidbyt-review-desk-accesso...

There are anecdotes about offices having a "build status" LED and you would get shamed if your commit broke the CI.
by sph | 2025-06-11 20:55:33+00:00
The thing that bugs me to no end when talking about inflation in an historical context, is that everyone forgets to consider how the indexes of consumption it's calculated from (PCEPI, CPI, etc.) are NOT static, and very arbitrarily are changed over time, often to make inflation seem lower than it actually is for the consumer.

Overall, historical comparisons of inflation numbers are so imprecise to be practically worthless the longer the timescale. You can expect the real figure to be much greater in reality for consumers, given the political incentive to lie over inflation data.
by thewebguyd | 2025-06-11 20:55:41+00:00
Yeah, especially considering how long they already are supported by Apple.

Sure it'd be nice to continue to be able to upgrade the software on out of support devices, but how long can we really expect a for profit company to support old stuff? I personally think 5 years is fine for a phone.

Time will tell what they do about apple silicon Macs though. The M1 is 5 years old now, and is still capable for pretty much all workloads if you have one with enough RAM. I could see it being still useful for 5+ more years. It's there I would expect at least 10 years of support, I think.
by Gerardo1 | 2025-06-11 20:55:58+00:00
> What about money?

The hundreds of billions being sunk into AI.

> You can't force me to want (or not want) someone's goods and services.

What are you talking about? What does that have to do with anything in this conversation?

> If you're worried about large scale automation and so forth

I'm not.

> I'm fine with something like UBI.

Well as long as you're fine with UBI I guess we can put this conversation to rest.

Seriously, if you don't want to actually participate in the conversation you can just ignore comments. It's fine.
by EarlKing | 2025-06-11 20:56:20+00:00
Addressing each other by surname is something that occurs principally in the context of sports, but outside of that you'd just address someone by given name. That was the case as regards children addressing each other or teachers addressing students. Students addressing teachers, of course, would address them by Mr/Mrs/Ms. <surname>. There are some oddball cases where teachers insist their students address them by given name, though.

Also, you made me feel old.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-06-11 20:56:54+00:00
> On the east coast they solve this problem by having smaller states.

That makes it sound like the eastern seaboard was originally the size of California, and then we recently decided to break them up when it was too big to effectively govern.

(I mean, I guess you could say that is what happened during the colonization of the area, and the Revolutionary War... I'll leave that debate to someone who studied more history than I did.)

Although I will say that New Jersey and NYC do constantly do things that affect the other one; it's just a function of NYC being a huge city, on the border of a dense state.
by runxel | 2025-06-11 20:58:10+00:00
Sadly he nowadays seems to be a bit forgotten, apart from the Napolitan ice cream here in Germany named after him (chocolate + strawberry + vanilla), and I am not aware of any books on him in English.

He wrote many books, by which sale he got revenue to foster his expensive landscaping. The "most famous" is probably "Tutti Frutti", which is not about landscaping but a ironic representation of his current times – but this as well has not seen any reprint for probably a century now. I always wondered, why... Maybe I'll do a reprint someday :)
by sibeliuss | 2025-06-11 20:58:22+00:00
You don't understand the potential of MDMA. Used in the right way, it is not a party drug.

I've seen, more than once, a single dose solve intractable problems. When I say this I mean: I've seen medical miracles first hand. Its real, and should absolutely not be grouped together with big pharma or anything else, where profit ultimately drives outcomes, not healing the patient. (There's very little profit incentive here due to its effectiveness.)
by pontifier | 2025-06-11 20:58:59+00:00
There was a youtube lecture I saw years ago that showed exactly what you'd see as you fell into a black hole and passed through the event horizon.

You'd see EVERYTHING that EVER crossed the event horizon. But critically, you'd see it EXACTLY as it was at the monent it crossed.

Sounds a bit crowded to me. Sounds a bit like I'd expect the big bang to look.
by qualeed | 2025-06-11 20:59:44+00:00
>I am arguing against it in all cases to be clear.

Yes, reading your other comment, I now understand that you truly believe that suffering is a good thing and that, if you had it your way, my father would have had to be bedridden, in extreme agony, for several more months than he had already suffered. A cruelty beyond imagination.

We will never, ever agree on this, so I wish you a good day.
by spaceguillotine | 2025-06-11 20:59:52+00:00
this is a perfect example of the VC churn, they hope to get unattainable and unsustainable results and don't care what happens to anyone that was doing it sustainably before they came around.

The internet has become total garbage now all because a few men wanted to make a bunch of money by making silicon do the thinking for them.

AI is the quickest route to ruin and ending up with humans like in Idiocracy devoid of critical thinking, and the output of LLMs is so bad to read, students are just turning in the worst papers using LLMs and learning nothing.

At first my school banned use of them but then Microsoft tipped their hand because they donate a lot of money and now everyone is allowed to use AI and they got rid of the requirement to use MLA Citations so everything turned into slop.
by rafram | 2025-06-11 21:01:38+00:00
> Some workplaces use English names (and even English language) so co-workers can speak/refer to each other without using the social hierarchy constructs built into the Korean language.

That's so interesting. It reminds me very vaguely of Indians escaping the caste hierarchy by converting to Islam or Buddhism. Sometimes the easiest way out of a restrictive system in your culture is just to switch cultural contexts entirely.
by atombender | 2025-06-11 21:01:55+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I'll probably show up on Discord eventually!

- Reordering is something that should be possible in the UI, not just by rewriting the query. Typically when I look at logs, I rapidly iterate on my view, adding columns, removing columns, rearranging them so I can see certain things side by side. This process should be zippy and friction-free.

- Breakdown: Here is an example from Kibana: https://imgur.com/Dkz6j9K. You can make the timeline display a stacked bar chart by any dimension.

- Autocomplete:

- Live view: Maybe I ran into a bug when I ran it locally; if I enabled the live tail mode and then scrolled down, then after about 2 seconds the whole page would scroll to the top even though nothing new had come in. When I try your live demo now, I see that it disables the live view when I scroll. I would argue that this is also bad UX, as it requires me to click "Resume" again. It should at least resume the mode if I scroll back up.

- Chart view: Maybe I was running into another bug that got fixed. I started latest HyperDX in Docker Compose and can't reproduce it now.

I did run into more chart bugs: Drag-to-zoom causes text to be selected, and when I zoom, the X axis range doesn't exactly match what I zoomed into, I.e. if I select from the start to the end of a curve, I expect the zoomed-in view to start and end at the same place, unless something funky is being done to the rounding of each X point. I have a video here: https://imgur.com/p6XOZ6U. [Edit: It is about granularity. I see the zoom is correct, it's just that your auto-granularity is very aggressive: https://imgur.com/C3TarFo. I've never seen this with Grafana, which bases its calculated time interval on the number of horizontally viewable data points, i.e. how many pixels wide the chart view is. Maybe an idea you should steal?]

For some reason the chart is working better for me now, but I would still argue that you're miles and miles behind Kibana. Kibana has a number of visualizations (line, bar, stacked bar, area, table, etc.; line smoothing of the kind you do is often not desirable, and a staircase is often better), and supports different aggregations such as group by top values: One thing I do constantly is to break a chart down by top K values. For example, a stacked bar chart of sum(duration) grouped by customer ID can be a very nice visualization.

I do like how HyperDX has a filter for every data series, which Kibana hides behind a convoluted UI.

- Sidebar: Yes, I suppose so!

Another thing I thought of was the filters in the sidebar. Seeing "ResourceAttributes['foo']" isn't so nice UX, when most of the fields are resource attributes, and they typically get truncated horizontally. From your demo: https://imgur.com/a/69lD3t5.
by Someone | 2025-06-11 21:02:02+00:00
> Then DOES> creates a definition for that word, using the remaining material.

Typically (likely always, as sharing code is the main reason DOES was invented), it compiles that code once and magically makes “that word” ‘jump’ to that code. That way, when, for example, you use the definition with DOES> multiple times, you only compile “the remaining material” once.

> Then, when we execute NAME in a compilation context, because the word sequence contains DOES>, everything to the left of DOES> is specially treated

That would be too magical. If you want a word to be executed when compiling code, you make it IMMEDIATE. For the CONSTANT example I gave, that’s not done, as it is executed in interpretation context, and then creates a word, compiles the number from the top of the stack, and then hooks up the word just created to the code compiled earlier.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-11 21:02:34+00:00
I mean, they have seen that NPM did ate their hats to bow to a company and they decided to not have it, and they removed their packages. Why the anger?

Yes, they have asked NPM to remove all of their packages. It's on them. NPM didn't do it, but gave a tool to do it themselves.

I deserted GitHub the day Copilot came online. I archived my repositories just because I didn't want broken links on comments and notes I have written god knows where.

I stopped uploading photos to Instagram the day they started doing AI training with my images. I didn't delete them because my partner likes them.

I can delete these repositories, photos, whatever I have online. I have no obligation to anyone. It's same for them. It's their code they developed by themselves. They can delete them, and just don't care what happens next.

Why this freedom bothers you that much?

P.S.: We don't do ad-hominem attacks here. Please refer to guidelines for more information. Thanks for your cooperation.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-06-11 21:02:35+00:00
This completely misses the point of reinforced learning. The reward condition needs to be representative of what you want (e.g. in chess that would be winning).

Using a LLM as a judge means you will ultimately optimize for stories that are liked by the LLM, not necessarily for stories that are liked by people. For this to work the other LLM needs to be as close to a human as possible, but this is what you were trying to do in the first place!
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-11 21:02:54+00:00
> The lawsuit describes San Francisco-based Midjourney as a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" that enables users to generate what the studios call "AI slop"

> According to the filing, users can simply type prompts like "Darth Vader at the beach" and receive "high quality, downloadable" images

I'm getting mixed messages here.
by lurking_swe | 2025-06-11 21:03:28+00:00
if they want to live then let them live. Who said i want them to choose suicide? I don’t care what you do, you CHOOSE. That’s the point. I’m not sure if you fully understood what i wrote, but whatever?

A choice. That’s all that’s being argued here.

I’m explaining why someone would want to rationally make such a choice. It’s not that complicated. Life is not a video game where the goal is to live as long as possible regardless of the “cost”.

Of course i support this as a last resort. Interventions should be made first. Therapy, family support, medicine, whatever.
by jfinnery | 2025-06-11 21:04:41+00:00
Any way to run the Docker version without the external DB requirement? I have a bunch of things running on my home server and so far every one is a single image with no external requirements, which is very nice. Everything that needs a DB just uses sqlite, makes it operationally very simple, and nothing I do even comes within the same universe as the kind of usage that'd cause sqlite to become a bottleneck (and this doesn't look like it would, either).
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-11 21:05:06+00:00
I should have said "doesn't have this problem much at all" rather than "solves" but regardless...

>Although I will say that New Jersey and NYC do constantly do things that affect the other one; it's just a function of NYC being a huge city, on the border of a dense state.

And their misery is their own doing so nobody feels bad for them in the way that people feel at least a little bad for CA famers who are getting crapped on by people the white collar workers elected or feels bad for LA being hamstrung by policy that appeals to SF and Sac or whatever.
by asveikau | 2025-06-11 21:05:14+00:00
Don't be silly. I didn't say anything about shamans. I'm saying human existence is subjective. Culpability, like the courtroom joke above, is subjective. They're useful models for how the world works but it isn't objective reality.

We would do well to remember that every now and then. People who get too into pretending their perspective is objective reality tend to do stupid things.