skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in production rendering for films, there's a great deep dive into all the major studio renderers https://dl.acm.org/toc/tog/2018/37/3

As for your questions:

> Is rendering of video games more similar to rendering for movies, or VFX?

This question is possibly based on an incorrect assumption that feature (animated) films are rendered differently than VFX. They're identical in terms of most tech stacks including rendering and the process is largely similar overall.

Games aren't really similar to either since they're raster based rather than pathtraced. The new RTX setups are bringing those worlds closer. However older rendering setups like REYES that Pixar used up until Finding Dory, are more similar to games raster pipelines. though that's trivializing the differences.

A good intro to rendering is reading Raytracing in a Weekend (https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...), and Matt Pharr's PBRT book (http://www.pbr-book.org/)
I'd say that if you're interesting in learning to code then Divjoy may work for you. I try not to over sell it to non-devs, but I do have a fair amount of customers who are hacking at Divjoy projects while learning to code and are very happy with that.

Since all the boilerplate works out of the box you can skip over a bunch of stuff (like understanding how auth works under the hood), but generally there's some custom logic you need to write and you'll want to pickup some JS/React to do that.

Any integration with Authorize.net would be totally done by you. You could export a codebase with Stripe payments so that you can at least see how payments logic ties in with UI.. but you'd need to then strip that out and replace with your own custom Authorize integration.
As I have replied elsewhere, that’s only a problem if they have something else on you.

Legitimate businesses don’t have to stress about a clerical error landing them in jail.
I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)
Do you mean kernel modules? You can compile programs just fine. There's a whole infrastructure around using visual studio code to run the UI natively and compile things inside the linux environment.
Oh, I agree that it has an effect, I just really doubt that we'll plunge into Great Depression part Deux if we have deflation for a few years.

Most people like buying things more than they like saving money.
The button can't both be an argument that the developer could have easily implemented accessibility and an argument that a it'd be a lot more work to implement accessibility in the same comment chain though.

Unless we're now talking about how to implement buttons for the sake of talking about buttons instead of the accessibility of this project in which case I don't think that's what the PR comment was intended to discuss, rather a PR to fix the actual accessibility issues the project was originally called out for.

I.e. if you think the scope of the should be bigger to address accessibility that doesn't make 2) invalid it just means you think it should be a larger PR.
For subscribers to the print edition, this article spans 40 pages and space in the issue is dedicated to little else. I haven’t worked through the entire thing yet to decide if this is due to the gravity of the reporting or is typical of an end-of-year slowdown at the publisher.
> Counterpoint: Sweden makes tax records public record. The IRS being compromised would be a big deal.

It would be a big deal only because it would shatter current expectations. As you've mentioned, society would operate just fine if everyone's tax records were public. The aversion that people feel towards it is largely cultural - if they were brought up in a different western society, they wouldn't feel that way.
I would draw the line when I could stand on one shore and not visually see the other side.
What is the advantage of placing everything in the language of graphical model? How does the other ML book do it?
Glad I'm not the only one that likes procedural cities!
If you are French then you probably don't know that your economy is kept afloat through the military occupation of former French colonies in the African continent where rare materials and wealth is extracted from their lands in essentially arbitrage-pay the poor African colonies pennies and resell it on the international market at disgusting multiples.

So the fact that you cannot see the link between offensive military projection capabilities and your economy suggests that this topic is not very well discussed sort of like how you can't read about the United Fruits company in American history textbooks or the genocide of native americans in the millions through biological warfare and weaponized poverty pushing their descendants further into poverty and irrelevance-even Canada does it openly.
Fauci lied – 90% Covid vaccination rate needed
I suspect hobbyist experience isn't relevant here. My experience running workloads at large scale (similar to Pixar's scale) is that as you increase scale, thinking of it as "enormously parallelizable" starts to fall apart.
I think that depends on how you use the word inflation. Some posts up someone defined it in eco science terms. Some people define it via the consumer price index. The consumer price index is what governments and and companies use in salary negotiations. So for people, the consumer price index is what drives their salary. If this consumer price index is not adequately factoring in the price of houses (cost of housing) or stocks (price of saving for retirement), than they are skewed. Salaries will trail behind rising cost aka. my generation is basing social status on smartphones instead of houses, because we can't afford houses.

Now, low interest rates play an important counter role: it is cheaper to finance a house. It due to the increased prices, it takes a lot longer. Combine that with the fact that my generation deals with less worker rights and job safety (they call it flexibility) and the fact that I have now seen two once in a lifetime economic crisis within 12 years ... It's getting quite hard to sign that 40 year finance plan.

There is however a solution to this, which is to leave the cities and move to the countryside, where I can build a house on a plot of land that used to be part of my grandma's farm. Not everybody is that lucky tough and not everybody can a find a job there or work remote. Hell, I'm not sure if I can, given that the internet there is still copper based.

In my opinion the issue is that to much money goes into buying existing things and to little money goes into creating new things. QE and other gov. measures seem to be going mostly into propping up prices of existing values, so the ones who own them don't lose virtual money.
Yes, in my initial post I had meant "liberal" as in, will they continue being happy under the thumb of a surveillance state which doesn't allow XYZ.

Not surprisingly people took that word to mean a great many different things!
Another sink where the recruiter will get you... No thanks, I'm fine with having a LinkedIn(and never opening it).
It's very unintuitive that when you open a Thread, the "back" arrow means "back to something else" and you have to scroll up above "line 0" to see the context of the thing being replied to. I forget this every single time I open a tweet thread and try to figure out the context.

Once you scroll up, it sort of makes sense -- each tweet with a line connecting user icons but then suddenly the expanded tweet thread has the main tweet in a larger font, then the "retweet/like" controls below it, THEN another line of smaller-font tweets that comprise the thread. Then you get some limited number and have to click "more" for more.

The monochrome of it all reminds me of when GMail got rid of the very helpful colors-for-threads and went to grey on grey on grey.

It's not visually apparent at all.
Oh, by “reuse variable names”, you simply mean that values aren’t moved, i.e., that JS lacks move semantics or an affine type system. That’s a bit different to “reusing variable names”, which you can do in Rust as well provided the variable holds a (certain kind of?) reference.
Twitter was designed to have 280 characters max per message. This means that for this kind of long format text, the amount of Signal-to-Noise ratio of having a large number of "tweets" is pretty low.

The amount of stuff your brain has to filter in the form of user name, user tweet handle, additional tagged handlers, UI menus, UI buttons for replying, retweeting, liking, etc on every single code snippet makes your brain work way more than it should to read a page of text.

Just imagine if I had written this exact text in 3 separate HackerNews comments, and prepended each with a 1/ 2/ 3/ text, in addition to all the message UI, it would have been more difficult to read than a simple piece of text.
See, the irony of this is that you are just publicly sharing performance numbers which undeniably show a pattern of performance issues. It also doesn't seem to be possible without you first accepting ToS.

Ooops!
I spun up a roughly equivalent version of this for Zig, I would say this is about 70% of the language:

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac1...
Or just admit that you don’t know enough to be confident in any explanation.

Maybe you try listening and maybe they will too.

Maybe realize that it’s more important to understand the person in front of you than score points in your own head.

Maybe start with establishing some common values rather than convince them that you’ll never agree on anything.

Maybe realize that some of the things that you are most concerned about are the things you are least rational about, and this may be that thing for them.
I would like to know more about the subject. Is there any way I can contact you ?
>The desktop experience Windows offers is often a lot better than the desktop experience of Linux.

Shockingly, this is untrue if using KDE. Almost everything in it is better than a multi-billion-dollar company's monopolistic OS shell somehow, from the taskbar customization to the features (disable compositing, deep customization of effects and behavior, have windows remember size/position, etc.) to the file manager, Dolphin, which has split views, tabs, had a dark theme a dozen years ago, more file metadata to show optionally like date modified and size, thumbnails for even text files, terminal integration, and more (although technically that's an independent package available on any DE). The exceptions are how "smoothly" windows glide around the screen when dragged and that the Windows taskbar looks slightly better.
I.e. "if that means doing what the programmer literally expressed, so be it."
And when leasing cores, who do they lease from and why?
Currently cloud-only but an on-premises version has been announced. So while Atlassian goes cloud-only, Jetbrains is going in the other direction.
To expand on this. The average healthcare cost in the US is $7k/year/person for the working age population. Children are an additional $3k/child/year. Since insurance companies are private businesses they will be paid $7k/year/person on average. No loopholes, no ifs, no buts. As such, no matter what your plan says or what the tradeoffs are (deductible, monthly, etc.), on average you will be paying them $7k/year/person. If you're paying for it yourself then that price will be paid by you. Now, you can avoid medical treatments to lower that price but I hope it's obvious why that's not a good social solution.

That price may come out of monthly premiums, deductibles, out of pockets or copays but it will be paid out on average.

In a universal healthcare system the government can use progressive taxes to subsidize this cost for the less well off. In a private system that isn't the case.

So if you make $24k/year that comes out to 30% of your income. Assuming you get the average standard of medical care in the US. You may get lucky and avoid this but lotteries aren't good ways to live life.

edit: Please note I'm talking about the working age population. I don't think the elderly make sense in this discussion given that there's government health coverage for them.
Thanks!

(I was also reading the OP which says "...Our world works quite a bit differently than VFX in two ways..." hence my curiosity)
FPGA is really expensive for the scale of a modern studio render farm, we're talking around 40~100k cores per datacenter. Because 40~100k cores isn't Google scale either it also doesn't seem to make sense to invest in custom silicon.

There's a huge I/O bottleneck as well as you're reading huge textures (I've seen textures as big as 1 TB) and writing constantly to disk the result of the renderer.

Other than that, most of the tooling that modern studios use is off the shelf, for example, Autodesk Maya for Modelling or Sidefx Houdini for Simulations. If you had a custom architecture then you would have to ensure that every piece of software you use is optimized / works with that.

There are studios using GPUs for some workflows but most of it is CPUs.
I do that too when creating a new page.

Editing an existing page is more perilous. I sometimes write out my changes in plaintext first, and then paste and format it into the doc piece by piece. Even that can get janky, though.

It's like Confluence is punishing my attempts to write documentation.
Oh, I'm a SW engineer. I just mostly worked in process control and consumer electronics. I've done a few websites.

Thank you for the reply. :-)
Pixar renders their movies with their commercially available software, Renderman. In the past they have partnered with Intel [1] and Nvidia [2] on optimizations

I'd imagine another reason is that Pixar uses off-the-shelf Digital Content Creation apps (DCCs) like Houdini and Maya in addition to their proprietary software, so while they could optimize some portions of their pipeline, it's probably better to develop for more general computing tasks. They also mention the ability to "ramp up" and "ramp down" as compute use changes over the course of a show

[1] https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/supercharging-pixar-s-ren...

[2] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/pixar-animation-studios-l...
This website is a complete shit. Especially that "Login" button.
Interesting. For me, MDMA comeup is 45 minutes of restlessness and agitation. I'm not sure how I would be able to tolerate that if I'm already at a point where a medical intervention is needed to calm me down. Though the actual effects of MDMA would be wonderful for processing the difficult emotions, I agree.
Я js-макака. 3 года искал работу пока не наткнулся на охуенные мемы и вакансии от Profunctor. Сейчас вообще похуй куда устроится, залетаю на совбес, лид смотрит презрительно а я ему сразу мемы насыпаю, оказался норм штрихуля, hr-шу нахуй послали и ее зп мне на бонус кинули. Вакансии заебись. От души, рекомендую.
The compiler can generate a test for alignment, and then a branch between two pieces of code. However, if the test and branch branch causes pipeline stalls due to bad prediction, it could be worse than just running the byte-banging code unconditionally.
> What App are you using.

I used the OSM web page.

Just type in the address with zip code, and it takes you to a completely different different zip code. This is a relatively new bug.

I find it interesting that I am down voted by 4 points. The OSM fans must not understand the value of user testing. Maybe it is the google fans who don't understand user testing.
But many times it's justified name calling. Because it's not the conspiracy in the theory that is the issue but the lack of evidence in proportion to the strength of their beliefs. And in place of evidence their is paranoia. The problem is conspiracies by their nature are very hard to prove so your evidence for them will likely be weak
> Meaning that's a pork project for their nuclear industry.

France has a dependency on nuclear for it's civilian power generation as well. So it's a strategic industry to maintain just so that they can keep a market for engineers. Especially since the military ramifications make it hard to cross borders with that type of knowledge, even among allied countries.
You all are perfect delicate flowers that need things to be just right in order to use them, then? Is that what you're saying?

Because that's what I'm getting from you.
Tip: for each artist or author you recommend, put their top books under the name with the picture from amazon and link there with an affiliate account.

An unfamiliar author’s name means nothing to me, but I might have heard of some of their books. And I’ll open tabs to check them out later.

For artists I’d love to SEE their pictures. I don’t know many artist’s names!
While I still need to read this paper in detail, I'm not sure their only change is to this scaling of the update.

The `koan` CBOW change has mixed effects on benchmarks, and makes their implementation no longer match the choices of the original, canonical `word2vec.c` release from the original Google authors of the word2vec paper. (Or, by my understanding, the CBOW mode of the FastText code.)

So all the reasoning in that issue for why Gensim didn't want to make any change stands. Of course, if there's an alternate mode that offers proven benefits, it'd be a welcome suggestion/addition. (At this point, it's possible that simply using the `cbow_mean=0` sum-rather-than-average mode, or a different starting `alpha`, matches any claimed benefits of koan_CBOW.)
"Taxing the super rich is hard, so let's not do it."
That's what tax inspectors are for.
Yes - all consistent with my comment, BTW. I elaborate more in another one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616311
Top voted comment from the previous HN discussion, advice to the developer: "they all the cards and you will lose this one and regret the wasted bandwidth."
dude is obviously a fing genius and probably has calculated that its more worth his time playing in the stock market than tracking down legal cases.

glad to see a software guy use all the modern day tools to get out of the rat race. cheers
For small projects such as the one you describe, a simpler "One Stop Shop" system has been in effect since 2015.

I understand there is an expansion to this rule coming in July 2021, that removes the need to register in multiple EU countries.

(the UK is obviously excepting itself from that)
The Constitution of Knowledge
The Power of Being Generic
> The average healthcare cost in the US is $7k/year/person for the working age population. Children are an additional $3k/child/year.

Actual US healthcare spending in 2019 was $11,582/person.

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Yup. You can. For free too. Mostly.
> The Great Depression.

What commodities ceased being traded during the Great Depression?

> Are we talking about store of value or medium of exchange?

Mostly store of value for now, both when adoption improves and LN support is more widespread. Eventually the base layer will also need some capacity bumps.

> Soros' comments on gold are helpful.

A multi millennium bubble? Can't get more unprecedented than that.
How you got these approved from Adsense? Heard that usually have issues with content aggregators claiming such sites do not have original content.
Data breach broker selling user records stolen from 26 companies
Thats the great thing about Exchange Traded funds which track an index - there's no thinking to do just invest in the fund for example this is a popular one: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)

And when you buy this you are effectively buying, Apple, Amazon, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble Co, NVIDIA etc because the fund will go ahead and buy all the largest 500 US companies weighted by market cap.

The S&P500 has returned an average of 12% a year for the last 10 years.
From a Tableau terms of service:

https://www.tableau.com/tlc-terms

3(g): "publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Tableau Beta Products."

3(f) is also identical, but they otherwise don't look that similar.

They're both > $50B companies, so you'd think they could get their lawyers to use different verbage..
I think both are instances of Goodhart-Campbell-Strathern's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
I got one (Fossil) as well. I love to have the e-ink off, that way it looks like a classic watch. Disadvantage is you cannot put Bluetooth off. I really don't want it on, unless when I specifically turn it on. I probably want a kill switch for it. Which Pebble had.
Literally how Turkish people think. They think this is all about pride or showing who's the boss. French people don't give a damn. The naval carrier isn't to project power against Europe or Turkey, the French Navy and Airforce alone is more than capable perhaps one of the most powerful in EU that shared with UK.

The power projection is aimed towards maintaing their former African colonies where they still rely on to fund/subsidize a lot of social benefits and programs in France.

You also have Turkish people and pretty much everyone around the world able to join the French Foreign Legion which makes it very easy for the French republic to minimize political fallouts losing its citizens in Africa while able to deploy large armies consisting of non-French individuals fighting for French interests and sovereignty in the region.

WW2 was over long time ago. France is at the absolute vanguard of EU's offensive capabilities. After USN, perhaps only French Navy can compare as its own French owned vertical industries all come together to build up its standing army.
Why do you think it's a hidden gem?
In case someone is curious, the optimization they describe is trivial to do in Kubernetes - just enter a resource request for cpu without adding a limit.
The fact that the Chinese government was reacting to is so severely was all the evidence required.

And all I wanted was temporary travel moratorium while data could be gathered, and some temporary mask mandates.

We ended up doing it anyway, but we did it the hard way, after it was far too late.

I had no real idea of the nature of the virus, but I knew full well in December 2019 that we should be closing the borders and stockpiling supplies. Things would surely have turned out better for all of us if we hadn't tolerated big tech interfering in the news.

But sadly, for so many people, they trusted the debunkers and really believed it was all fake news. I can't imagine what a shock it must have been for them.
This reminds me of one of the first FreeBSD press releases. [0]

> FreeBSD Used to Generate Spectacular Special Effects

For the then upcoming movie The Matrix

> Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm.

[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html

edit: added that it was for The Matrix.
GPUs are commodity hardware, but you don't have to speculate, this was answered well here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616527
Gotcha! Then it shouldn't be too hard to integrate Authorize. UI is mostly decoupled from payment logic. Always happy to hop on a call if you need some help understanding anything in the codebase.
Dr. Coyle has equity in the company that manufactures the bicycles

Plausible result, but I'll wait for the replication before taking it too seriously.
Time Travellers: Please Don’t Kill Hitler (2014)
I am not saying it is intuitive.

I'm saying it's usable.

I'm saying that complaining about it makes people look like they think they're royalty who need everything just so or their whole day is ruined... And now they can't tell the butler to take Poopsie for a walk because they're so shaken by the experience.
That's a good idea thanks! I'll get in touch
While I don't know your usual sleep schedule, waking up at 11am does not sound too bad to me.