skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So your reference is something else you wrote?

I didn't write it, that's my co-founder.

And plus there is a full article about it here if you just Google it: https://www.insider.com/marvel-plans-movies-action-scenes-ye...

"While previs used to be used for just one or two tricky action scenes, Marvel has embraced the approach of visualizing entire movies, including quieter beats and dialogue scenes."

"The first visualizations of a Marvel film will often begin before the script's fully finished."

"Occasionally, rough previs might be underway even before the cinematographer or director has signed on to the project, a practice that can be controversial in Hollywood. Director Lucrecia Martel said she turned down the offer to direct the upcoming "Black Widow" movie after Marvel told her not to worry about the action sequences."
> Cloudflare crossed the line here

Oof, your dev god complex...

This isn’t complicated or hard to break down. Nothing you just said and nothing about the technology is an excuse for your behavior.

I have seen many great devs but the best ones are humble and nice. You my friend are a clueless jerk.

You owe the authors an apology:

- Thibault Meunier

- In-Young Jo

And everyone else on the team at Cloudflare. I can’t imagine this is the first time has been difficult or confrontational working with or around you.

What is “bullshit” is you able to dance this disrespectful behavior publicly in front of eastdakota and jgrahamc without repercussion.

It is not fair to all the awesome hard working people at Cloudflare.

Edit: This isn’t my fight though. I am done commenting.
I think this is because there’s an obvious series of steps that the openworm team was unable or unwilling to do: teach a C. Elegans a habitual memory, preserve it using ASC, scan it slice by slice using an electron microscope, try to predict neuron weights based on chemical content or synapse size, and then feed that back into their model.

One of the comments on the lesswrong post made a good point: a team without access to significant money or expertise was unable to make progress. That doesn’t say too much about the actual problem.
https://youtu.be/0KMndAb0wBk
Yet a relational database in 5th normal form is equivalent to a RDF-Like first order Triple graph.

A lot of network databases store graphs as pointer-bogs which are hard to process and query, but that does not diminish the virtues of the graph model itself or preclude a representation based on joins.

I'd argue that a 5th normal form graph representation contains a lot less implementation detail and is a lot more flexible than a regular old buch of tables.
You should probably look up for things called metaphors and hyperboles. Rhetorical devices are used by people in order to make their speech less boring and bland.

Computer chips have no literal teeth that can be taken out during curbstomping. However, companies DO have figurative poisonous teeth that harm society, and those CAN be taken out. And they should.
That's a fair point, the idea is also to preserve the media that we as a family consume. Growing up my dad would take me to the video store and find old classics from his childhood, the archive contains many of those as well as all of the stuff important to me. I hope that she will add her own media and then pass it to her children (should she choose to have them that is). What we choose to read, listen to and watch tells us so much about who we are as a culture and as a people.
Windi CSS
That and/or owning DVDs/BRs.

Most of my friends laugh at me for still buying physical media, but the reality is I don't trust streaming services, or IP owners in general really. There is no way my kids are growing up thinking that Han didn't shot first.
That’s definitely true - and many of the elements are not even subtle at all. But I don’t think that explains the sex scenes, as those could be easily cut for Chinese releases.
Some years ago a woman used peer pressure to get me drunk, she lied about how strong the alcohol was, she used her superior strength and health to force herself on me while being covered in the fluids of another person.

I didn't have the guts of contacting authorities because I live in a country that has laws tilted in favor of women. (Which I will not discuss but in general woke people have succeeded into bluffing everyone that this can't be real)

When I tell this story, woke people have said to me absolutely horrible things that align with the whole "men can't be abused". From "it was a good opportunity for you to learn" to "well, actually the reason you didn't come out is male fragility" completely erasing my voice.

If we are trying to be inclusive, it will never include me if woke people are allowed to use their language to shape rules. NEVER. I will not feel safe around them because the risk of being abused as a man and these people not doing anything, or enjoying it, or even supporting my aggressor in a misguided attempt to correct years of perceived injustices in the past is non negligible.

I don't see any scenario where a female contributor harasses me and the woke moderators eject the woman. In fact, I see all the roads pointing to the female contributor claiming I was the harasser after harassing me and moderators blindly believing her part claiming they looked at the evidence behind curtains to protect the victims.

This isn't conjecture on my part, you can see several CoC kerfuffles where the rules didn't apply to the woke tribe.
A Deepness in the Sky is my sentimental favorite scifi novel of all time. I rarely reread scifi.
That’s not true. If you only look at CEOs you won’t be able to tell which behaviors are unique to CEOs and which are not. If you don’t eliminate these potentially universal traits and behaviors you’re setting yourself up to be be wrong due to biased data. More generally: how can you possibly understand what something is without understanding also what it is not?
Yep wrangling the dependencies really becomes a tremendous pain at scale. Chromium for example does the same thing and they have enough engineering backing to be able to throw enough manpower into it so that that can get each and every single dependency in the same build set using the same build files and tools (gyp/gn/ninja). While feasible for an org such as Google this is totally unfeasible for a small shop with Limited engineering man hours. Really wish there was an easier way to deal with all of this. Sigh
Reminds me of https://nandgame.com (free, web-based) where you build a CPU starting from NAND gates (building other gates, then registers, then clock, RAM, ALU, all the way to a processor).
Author here.

> I eagerly await some concrete implementations of these new ideas.

I'm working on them now! They are not public because of a licensing issue where I need to consult a lawyer first (thanks, GitHub Copilot), but they will be public as soon as that's sorted out.
in the end though, a dollar, euro or whatever is just a abstract unit which represents hours of labour spend.
Inflation is making the hours worked in the past worth less, and forces people to spend their money early to get maximum effectiveness out of their work.

From a labourer's perspective, inflation is making the results from work done in the past worth less, while those who have the means to take risks can negate these negative side effects.
If someone glosses over an issue, it's either innocent (didn't know about it, didn't understand it) or deceptive (intentionally ignored it). Giving Drepper the benefit of the doubt here means assuming he didn't know or understand the problem he failed to adequately address.
So you generally find commenters here to be smart and knowledgeable about tech topics, but you feel that crypto is the exception...

Is it also possible that you're just wrong about crypto?

Most of the people I know who are very enthusiastic about it also deeply misunderstand the technology and also some basic economics (e.g. deflationary vs. inflationary assets).

I think HN users get angry because the crypto space is a neverending parade of people getting tricked by pump-and-dump, wealthy elites, etc.

Recently, a friend was gushing about Dfinity and telling me I'm basically stupid for not seeing the promise of it... and now we find out it was a scam and the technology is just tokenized, centralized AWS.

When this happens often enough, it can be upsetting. It feels like being a doctor having to talk to antivaxxers over and over again.
I've signed up!

I just read the Oxford paper that you linked to.

It appears to me that your approach is different from that of Dreem who used to provide "pink noise" via their headband.
> why online discussion forums and anonymity are so powerfully liberating

My interpretation of this phenomenon is that significant (but subconscious) physical and social constraints are not removed from strangers who meet in person. There is risk and danger, there is wealth, language and vocalic register, and there is sexual politics. Humans evolved with these sociological pressures and most humans understand and conform to them.

But on the InterWobbles, people can be very wrong, flagrantly ignorant and completely inhumane without the probable damage to reputation (real-world personal cost).

Until their identities are leaked, of course... Then they realise the reputational cost of being wrong-headed, flagrantly ignorant, and inhumane. And they seek forgiveness ("escape from personal cost").

The InterWobbles have released the bottled demon and given us the 21st century's InterWobble Edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.[1]

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm
Where you saw the link? They aren't related in any way. Haiku is an independent operating system inspired by BeOS. Hello is FreeBSD with an interface inspired by macOS. But you should give Haiku a try. Creator of Hello liked it[0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-first-day-with-haiku-shocki... (it's a series of posts)
Yes, they can be a hundred times faster so now it's only 273,378,930,384,066,111,944,300,099,749,229,403,236,110,674,297,569,624,874,932 years.

More seriously, GPUs are faster because they are highly parallel, and parallelism can only give you a speedup that is linear with the number of processing units. So unless you're planning to build a GPU with trillions units, that won't help much.
GoT is explicitly mentioned and is used to make the author’s point.
Priscilla Chan: Openness Key to How Mark Zuckerberg and I Do Science at CZI
> DLL Hell was well understood in the mid-90s.

Also, there are some additional facets of DLL Hell which happened in the Windows of the mid-90s which are not as relevant to Linux. What made DLL Hell so bad there was that installing any random program could replace globally shared libraries, sometimes even with an older version. That is, installing a game could make an unrelated productivity app stop working, because the game helpfully installed newer (or older!) versions of the shared libraries it needed, into the same globally shared directory in which nearly all DLLs lived. It got so bad (even DLLs which came with the operating system were being overwritten) that Microsoft IIRC initially introduced a system which detected when this happened, and replaced the DLLs again with a clean copy it had stashed somewhere else (and later, made these files more directly protected).

That's before considering the disaster that is in-process COM servers; presenting a standard "open file" dialog, or doing some printing, is enough to make Windows load arbitrary DLLs into your process (shell extensions and/or printer drivers), and these often don't have the highest code quality. And then there are some things which inject arbitrary DLLs into every process...

Compared to that, the dynamic linking issues in the Linux world are much more bearable. You don't see arbitrary programs overwriting the global copy of something like libgtk or openssl or zlib or libc, the only arbitrary dynamic libraries being loaded into a process are things like the NSS ones (usually from a small well behaved set) or plugins from the graphics libraries (also usually from a small well behaved set), and the only dynamic library being injected into every process is the vDSO from the kernel.
Can someone explain me why they risk their (probably very well paid - compared to the rest of the world) job for such small stuff?

Nearly all the points sounds like usual stuff which is common at nearly every company. Aren't they aware that they risk never getting a job at another company again?

What are their thoughts? We make a letter of some small issues and the world will turn into socialism?
> There's actually one really interesting point in here: Zoomers are incredibly "puritanical" and anti-sex.

It might depend on the country. I find them way more liberals than my generation. I mean, maybe there is more backroom in nightclub now than 10 years ago (or less?), but i've witnessed more public sex people in 2017-2019 than i ever did before. We might need data on this. Also, i have the impression that my generation restarted the "menage a trois" that i thought disapeared in the late 70s, but that might be because i became close to a LGBTQ+ community in my mid-20s that was way less impressed by sex than i was.
> Aren't there plenty of sex scenes in TV shows these days?

Very probably.

TFA does not include the string 'TV' or 'television', but has 16 occurrences of 'movie', so perhaps you're arguing against a point that's not being asserted.

> I don't understand sentences like these.

And that's okay.

As TFA points out, China (and elsewhere) are significant markets with specific and (to western culture) peculiar requirements in terms of being culturally palatable.

The question is cogent, concise, and valid -- if you're a movie maker (motivated by money/fame/whatever) why would you try to contend with complex and difficult material if you could instead, as they author asks, more easily rake in billions by having two asexual fictional character punch aliens.

> Superhero movies are more successful due to many reasons: big budget, proven formulaic plots, fan base, etc. but definitely not because they are less bothersome to produce.

It's not so much bothersomeness that's the key criteria, but I'd suggest that big budgets don't guarantee a film's success anymore than a proven formulae (there's only 7 after all) or a large fan base (plenty of fan bases are both enormous and enormously unsatisfied).

Read some of the literature on why Marvel has been so popular in the China market for some context here -- for example this piece (but there's an abundance) : https://variety.com/2019/film/news/avengers-endgame-marvel-u...
What looks eerie to me is that watching TV series becomes more and more like simply watching others people live their lives: them having sex; sleeping; talking while in bed; having breakfast; brushing their teeth; sitting on a toilet… (And, these days, all of that without letting the phones out of their hands, of course.)
Technology is not always the answer (2003)
> Since commercially competitive fusion power is already known not to be possible

I missed that law of physics which says commercial fusion power is impossible.
Also the Buffy remaster, where interestingly they uncropped the footage, showing some of the filming crew, microphones, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo

(edit: already posted in this thread, oops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28737063)
Caloric requirements are higher for someone awake than someone asleep. If the cap allows someone to operate with 20% less sleep you could imagine a small expansion of hours for shopping, venues, restaurants etc, I’d the cap allows for an 80% reduction of sleep the morning bird and night owl crowd would essentially overlap for the majority of the population, and I can imagine morning workout routines that involve dancing at dance clubs that haven’t been closed yet.
Yeah, I suspected people might be. But since I was answering a "Considered Harmful" essay, it was too easy. Eh, oh well.
No, you can't. Consider applying your compression algo twice, or N times. If it gets smaller each time, then eventually you could compress anything to a single bit.
Deep Meaningful Conversations with Strangers
As a counter-point I think it looks worse in many ways. You can see the screen make-up jarringly clearly. And the special effects were added after filming, so they have had to be redone.
I always assumed that sex scenes were there to help couples have sex especially when they are older.

We are in our 40s, it takes a lot to get in mood for sex. We don't watch porn or actually look for ways to get in the mood. We plan to have sex after date nights but those are rare with young kids in the house.

Over last few years, most of sex happened when we were watching a "real" movie with a good sex scene/s. I understand why superhero movie should not have sex scenes but we need more adult movies with a good stories. There is demand for it. My wife's book club even recommends steamy movies to watch with your partner, unfortunately, some of those are really cheesy like 365 Days.
Absolutely. Preservation can only be achieved properly through passion not money. The copyright holders of these cultural artifacts don’t care about them enough to properly preserve them.

Only passionate fans or enthusiasts care enough to make sure things are preserved to an acceptable quality. Companies will always do dumb things like change aspect ratio, remove scenes, ship low quality video, audio or subtitles.
> Amazon prime on my phone blows up 16:9 material too, chopping off the top and bottom to fit the wider aspect ratio, unless you're careful to 'zoom out'

Interesting. I've just checked on my iPhone, and 4:3 video stays 4:3, with black bars on the side.
It’s a textbook bug, it’s an unhandled edgecase.

The designer didn’t sit down and go “and logically when a circular belt is full, the items should stop moving while the belts keep moving”.

The fact that it was decided to not handle this edgecase does not mean it stops being a bug, no matter how much you love the game or how strongly you want your mantra of “factorial has no bugs” to be true.

Of cause factorial has bugs, lots of them. Just look at the thousands of fixes. This is one of them, and it’s a bug that has been there from the start and will likely never get fixed, but it’s still a bug.
I enjoyed DK64 as a kid, but after replaying it recently, IMO it doesn't hold up too well. The collecting isn't bad (though the character switching makes it much worse). My main issue is the core gameplay/controls. Moving around feels unresponsive and sluggish, the action animations are really long, and hitboxes can be unintuitive. Banjo-Kazooie is better, but still not very snappy control-wise.

Super Mario 64, OTOH, holds up remarkably well: the controls flow so much faster and easier. It just feels natural to move around, with much less frustration. The camera is the biggest negative there, but that's a tough problem to solve for 3D open-world platformers, so I cut them some slack.
I always feel very awkward saying banal things in response to meaningless questions so I avoid "small talk" and even simple "how are you?" at all costs, often by hurrying to cross the street when I notice someone who knows me. At the same time I'm almost always very interested in what do others actually feel, think and know and would be glad to have a meaningful conversation on any (preferably non-personal) subject with anybody.
Oh come on, it's a nice book and I enjoyed reading it but his physics are pure bullshit and his game theory is based on pop psychology.
Clarify your meaning of "reductionist"?
And when we do show sex, it's in ways where it's always "complicated". Sex, according to the mainstream, must involve some sort of transgressive participation. You must be committing adultery, or be "in the closet", or committing incest, or doing it with total disregard for responsibilities, or doing it in inappropriate circumstances, or by committing rape. Unless you're watching a deliberately romantic film, I don't know how anyone can get a positive impression of sex or even associate sex with love by watching what's on streaming services.
One of the tragic effects of the MAFIAA's legal efforts to stop piracy, was that, though they could never reduce the amount of popular stuff being pirated, they did manage to shut down a lot of niche sites or private trackers, where people had meticulously curated rare and obscure content that was impossible to get anywhere else.
When it came out I was also disappointed, but nowadays the villainous power-seekers and the unhinged denialist group make Vinge seem more clear-seeing than I was. (If you think I'm dissing just one side of today's culture wars, nope.)
I don't think being smart has anything to do with this. You may want to replace "smart" with "knowledgeable about a topic I'm interested in".
Indie Stone Fixed the Bandana 90% Protection Bug Poorly
I'm actually horrified to see stretching on the rise, especially in news broadcasts. "Oh, this singer just died? Let's have a disfiguring retrospective of their 80s music videos where they appear 2x as wide now."
>> huge correlation between people low in Vitamin D and bad COVID-19 outcomes

>> correlation != causation

Thank you for that perfect explanation of "what is half-truth".
Author here.

This is exactly what I was getting at. Thank you.
Only to the extent you can verify. Although that highly depends on your ability to control/counter your own bias.

Safer and easier way: don't trust anything.
Except there are tons of crypto scams and governments have used the blockchain to find criminals by tracking payment flow.
Longtime fan since the 90s. Have rewatched in 16:9 many times. I don't care. Seinfeld is just not this kind of show.
> On the China thing: Why don't we let the ones who want to censor movies just do it on their own instead of precensoring them?

Because its more cost effective to consider the whole market when making the movie to start with.

> I believe it's still done for so-called in-flight entertainment

In-flight entertainment isn't way down the list of money drivers. “Chinese first-run sales” is a lot higher. So the power of the latter on how movies are initially crafted is big, while the former is negligible.
16:9 reframes of Seinfeld have been around a long time. Did Netflix reframe anything or are they using these existing versions? For what it's worth the reframed version is not a simple crop, and in fact sometimes previously-unused parts of the film are used[1]. It's not just a crop/upscale of the original broadcasts, though perhaps the same effort didn't go into this reframing as The Wire, which as others have noted is excellent.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/seinfeld/comments/17xn28/original_v...
/sbin used to be statically linked on unix. The entire point of /sbin is the independence from almost everything else so that you can rely on them even when the system boots up in a weird state.
I see it as two different things pulling on the human mind in opposite directions, you can find all manner of porn if you try on the internet, yet you never see the "normal" people do it or be nude in a movie anymore. I think this can cause some issues.

Even the 50 Shades sex scenes in the movies were bizarrely tame and Puritan. Like if a pre-teen imagined what sex was like but had never really actually done the deed.
I am aware of these differences. I was referring to at least two documentaries I've seen on Rwanda where the makers said radio was used by the people in power to foment discord in 1994. It was the only media that was basically universally accessible to the population. That seemed relevant. Both these documentaries made a point of this dynamic. I will assume you've seen similar evidence but disagree with the relevance and not that you are in fact ignorant, which seems to be all you will assume of me.
> Say, you come to Hackernews/Reddit and usually see people on these sites as knowledgeable people.

This may be part of the rub: there are a bunch of bullshitters on the internet.