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IMO the Blender project psychology gets this reception in part because it works very similar to general "doin' business" service psychology. Features requested are built; money requested is donated; resources are used for additional upgrades; industry-cooperative movements are made; progress is tracked, open, and accountable.

If you want a critical take on Blender therefore, for one you ought to look outside a community of business-minded devs. Look where artists hang out and you'll find a less rational take that is based on individual likes and dislikes. Where logic doesn't matter so much--it's how you feel. That's where you'll get into it. And if you look at other FOSS graphics software communities where the project lead is someone who just does whatever they want, even better, you'll find a group of users who either adapt or leave, and that's quite different from Blender's psychological development ecosystem in a lot of ways.

Alternately you could go more-business and go ask a SolidWorks user group to tell you how great Blender is. They will probably tell you how business is done properly and why the Blender way is clueless in various ways.

It so happens I ran an online community for another FOSS 3D package for over a decade. We got some people who were anti-Blender, and some who were pro-Blender. Often the anti-position was based in prefers-underdog reasons, which I understand. Even in FOSS there are some clear underdogs and people get upset when they like the underdog and continually see another project winning attention instead.

We also got some people who were pro-Blender, who thought that our community must be anti-Blender, because we were obviously "competitors in the space." In fact there was never a competitive mindset, it's more that people who lean into that business psychology of "here's how you win" think more often in terms of competition.

BTW Blender is definitely an awesome project, I've used it since 2002 and on various commercial projects in addition to hobby stuff.
I mean really, if you want a downvote button, I'm sure there is or will be a browser plugin that you can install that will put the downvotes back in there. Then you know YT isn't messing with the counts as an added bonus (of course, you have to trust that the plugin maintainer isn't...)
TikTok is targeting a different type of content, there is no competition with YouTube as we know it, which is videos longer than 10 minutes.
Typical of Norwegians to win.
It’s because they see Blender as “fighting for open source” against 3DS Max and the others. People do the same thing with Godot. You used to see it with Firefox before some of the recent bad press.
There's a chance that the individual was acting bot like.. perhaps they posted the same comment, verbatim, to multiple videos in a short time span.
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Yeah. I "manage" at work dog owners group in our collaboration system that has >500 people now. Amount of purebred doodles or poos is amazing. I wasn't even aware that those combinations are bred
It's not about changing the business model or culture. It's ensuring that the CEO can survive and has allies he can work with. I hate to break it to you, but execs who come from the outside (i.e. non founders) rarely care about the long term future of the company.

What do they care about? The stock options they were granted. The notch in their resume. And of course the money. Relatively short term plays. Surrounding themselves with familiar people cuts down on the tremendous political burden the job bears and allows them to get to those short term profits in an easier way.
>My complaint about these reforms is that the root cause of the issue is not being addressed.

It becomes a question of how do we ensure every child has access to a dedicated adult willing to tutor them and push them in education matters. Once a child begins to fail in a class, unless someone is there who can help them back onto the route of succeeding, they risk developing learned helplessness around education. Maybe a single subject, maybe education in general. It takes a lot of time for someone to work with a kid, find out what the root cause of the problem is, help them overcome that, and then build up on the topics they have fallen behind on. It helps greatly when that person isn't just there for teaching/tutoring but also invested in the child in other ways so the child values their input.

When parents either don't have time, ability, or desire to do this, there is rarely a backup. Teachers try to fill the gap but they are spread too thin over too many students and rarely are with a student long enough to make a significant impact. Some teachers may even avoid it because it can quickly become an issue of favoring certain students over others. As for parents, while some parents will be able to fix the problem by having more time available, some parents lack enough education to keep helping their child past a certain point. Both finding how to give parents more time and how to educate parents enough to help their children are hard problems. As for the parents who don't have a desire to help, there might not be any solution at all.
> Come on, this is such a willfully ignorant reading of this text.

Maybe you are the willfully ignorant one here?

I understand roteness is bad. But please explain:

1. How roteness is linked to white supremacy.

2. How objectivity is linked to roteness. They are not related at all. You can be objective and creative. E.g., Ramanujan.

3. Asians are well known for rote learning. I am Indian. I know how rote it can get and I agree it is bad. But stop conflating that with objectivity.

4. > Claiming they are saying "objectivity in math is white surpremacy" is like saying "critical race theory is taught in high school".

Did you read the document? That is exactly what they say and imply in multiple places. Roteness is different from objectivity. You are defending a straw man. Words have meanings. If they mean't roteness, use that.
Indy streamers do a better job in this case (and most, probably). GM Ivanchuk covers all games live on his Twitch channel, and is my choice for analysis.
There are plenty of ways you could do that. But then you would be playing a completely different game, and hundreds of years of theory and strategy would be gone.
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I've actually made "instant" egg nog right in the cocktail shaker... and it's been a hit

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/baltimore-eggnog-3415575

Probably not as food safe as the aged version, but still quite tasty. Not eggy. However the linked article says "The USDA estimates that one in every 20,000 eggs contains salmonella bacteria, which means that the average consumer would encounter a contaminated egg once every 84 years."
Iterated games and future Nazis you say... How can you tell that banning holocaust denial won't result in a reactionary movement in the future that will result in Nazis getting into power again, ąs people might start questioning the holocaust precisely because they're not allowed to question it?
It has not been tested, but I'm not aware of any differences Timescale introduces that would be a compatibility issue.
Ask HN: Effects of Covid Vaccination on R0?
I searched for medical studies on how vaccination affects the spread of COVID-19 (aka R0). But it has been surprisingly hard to find good information!

I'm having a discussion about vaccination with a family member, and I'd like to have some evidence that I can show them.
I'm amused to plug in my 2100 rating on Lichess and find that I was almost exactly right; the site says it's 1780 on chess.com +- 100 or so.
There are definitely still some issues with it (e.g. the VSE is still not very good) but they're just so damn good at improving it how can you complain? That release video is insanely professional. It's probably the best run non-developer open source project that there is.
> Many elderly people die of loneliness.

Good thing society banned people from visiting their relatives in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. We sentenced the oldest in our population to die in what amounts to solitary confinement.
I generally agree but public sanitation measures including water purification, food inspection, garbage disposal, and sewers also have a huge impact on average life expectancy. Maybe even more than healthcare.

In other words, vaccines are wonderful but if I had to pick between vaccines and clean water I'd take clean water every time.
Huh, I didn't expect to come across something I have such direct knowledge of.

I used to work with this data directly - I worked with MACPAC to prepare reports for the CBO on the efficacy of pay-per-performance programs, especially as it pertained to the possibility of switching Medicaid from a fee-for-service model to a pay-for-performance model. (6-9 years ago)

I just wanted to chime in on this one quote:

> We have all the data we need to know what the outcomes should be for a provider over the course of a year.

The data here is exceedingly low quality, especially for Medicaid. Medicare is in a better state due to being centrally administered. We do *not* have all the data we need to make pay-for-performance more than an extremely rudimentary approach. Is that rudimentary approach still better than fee-for-service? Maybe - that's a complicated question I let the public health PHDs write very long reports on.
Think about it this way: a household of 4 might use a dozen eggs per day. At 1:20000, that's 4.5 years between seeing contaminated eggs. If the sanitary procedures reduce risk by 80%, they have a problem every 22 years or so.

A moderately busy restaurant can use a thousand eggs per day. If their procedures are only 95% effective, they have a problem almost every year.

300 outbreaks in 15 years suggests that restaurants have egg handling procedures that are better than 95% effective.
The inputs are the pieces and the output is the finished set.
"The manufactured outrage over the California math recommendations keep getting posted on HN. Read the actual text of the plans here [1]."

This is not manufactured outrage. I have read the framework (and many of the sources cited as support for the recommendations), and I am outraged.

If you follow the footnotes, you'll find instances where:

- the framework incorrectly states the conclusion/claim in the paper/study/web-page

- the framework relies on a claim in a paper/study/web-page, when the paper/study/web-page lacks sufficient evidence to support the claim due to poor experimental design, poor interpretation, or lack of evidence altogether

"The FAQ is at [2] and directly responds to these characterizations."

The FAQ does not accurately portray the implications of the recommendations. (I read both the framework and FAQ a few months ago.)
That's still the Streisand effect. No publicity is bad publicity, etc.
You are talking about a 4 sigma deviation. Really? Your objection to a curriculum is that it doesn't cater to the 1 in 50,000 child? A child that 90%+ of school districts will never see.

Sorry. That's not even close to being a valid argument.

> Every student, no matter how capable, benefits dramatically from instruction tuned to their level and ability.

Oh, I agree. And the research supports it. However, when you tally up the bill for 2 teachers per every 10 or fewer students to make that happen, suddenly everybody starts screaming and objecting.

And curriculum has no bearing on any of that.
What gets me is the silent deletion. I generally don't post swear words but recently I posted "ass" and I refreshed it was gone. This could be on a personal user setting but still. It's funny though you could comment/not look at something again so does it matter that your comment stayed... idk.

It doesn't tell you "that's not allowed" or something. It updates the UI so you think it went through but it actually didn't.
People don't often think of their local development environment as a "platform" that their stuff needs to work in, but it really is. In that sense, unless you're hosting off of your laptop (please don't!), every app is multi-platform.

Every startup I've worked at (and I've been at this for 15+ years) has moved hosting providers, but I still wouldn't put it high on the list of reasons to avoid vendor lock-in. If you make sure someone(s) know how the app actually runs, and you try to pick stuff you can run locally, the vendor lock-in stuff won't be your biggest challenge in the move.
Everyone is a bill-after company, though. If it was pre-pay, you'd buy $200 of computing time, convert that into 8 cents of today's hot shitcoin, and then initiate a chargeback to get your $200 back. They could make you wait 60 days or whatever, but that's an unpleasant customer experience, so they don't.

With physical goods, there is always the possibility that the merchant could compel you to return the physical good, but with cloud computing, that's nearly impossible.
"World chess championship has win outcome in longest-ever game" would be a great headline and wouldn't contain a spoiler.

Unfortunately, they're probably optimizing for views, and Magnus has a lot of name recognition.
That and doom scrolling on on my pure black theme'd apps at night. Although I've gotten used to the smearing and don't really mind it anymore.
Do you want to explain where "paying for games that you get to keep" entered this conversation?

The logic the GP was using was that exclusivity deals and "the first hit is free" tactics are not ultimately in the customer's interest.
My question is whether it's possible to get the most out of a variable width vector architecture from a high level language.

If this is not the case then our programming model may end up being the same as it is on X86 since it's a easy subset of the functionality.
What lifestyle diseases are you thinking of that are commonly treated with immunosuppressants? Diseases like psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis are commonly treated with immunosuppressants and are not considered lifestyle diseases.
Honestly I think the best solution should have been to let creators enable/disable dislike visibility on each of their *own* videos. Removing that for every single video on the platform is a supernova level of overkill.
IIRC the effectiveness is reduced for delta, certainly, but not to zero.

But yes, we’ll probably need updated vaccines, similarly to how we update the flu shot every year.
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The 5 year thing is misleading though.

It would have been 4 years if not for COVID.

And what it basically means is that there were decisive games 4 years ago, and then 2 years later (the World Chess Championship is played every 2 years), in the 2018 match between Caruana and Magnus there were no decisive games.

So essentially there was 1 match with all draws during the standard chess part of the tournament. And that match was between Fabi who is regarded as one of the players with some of the greatest prep and play in standard chess, and Magnus, who is really one of the greatest players, if not the greatest, of all time.
Hacker News has a similar problem with comments:

net_votes = up_votes - down_votes

You need at least two of the above variables to get an idea of both the direction and magnitude of the voting. Hacker News provides only one: net_votes. YouTube used to provide up_votes and down_votes, effectively providing all three. Now YouTube has reduced its information to up_votes, so they're now down to one variable in the equation, as Hacker News has been all along.

The difference between 102+/100- votes and 2+/0- votes is large, but invisible on this site. I think it would be better for HN to go to where YouTube was, giving us an idea of both the net vote and the level of activity. Like up/down or up/total or net/total.
Except that there isn't a slow plugin that needs to be re-downloaded and browser re-started every time you use it, which were the worst bits of Flash as far as I was concerned.
Not uncommon, but doesn't happen in most games.
It's a marketplace.

Therefore, Amazon, Walmart, etc, should be prohibited from competing with their own customers. Vertical partitioning.

Further, the advertizing business must be separate, for all of FAANG et al. Horizontal partitioning.

Busting these trusts up will unlock shareholder value, allow competition, boost innovation. Same as before (oil, railroads, telephone, etc).

I'm ok with Amazon remaining in logistics, shipping. Once Amazon Prime is no longer run at a loss, it probably won't be anti-competitive.
Being neighbors is a preferable situation in my opinion also. Like everybody loves Raymond, but maybe a few more houses down.
It's helpful to spot fake stuff like fake trailers or some kind of scam.
Modern engines value the pieces more, like knight/bishop ar 4.1, rook closer to 6 and queen at 11.
I don't quite have hundreds of Privacy cards, but I have quite a few, and many for subscription services. Though I understand and welcome the core reason for the change, forcing users to do this migration in December—of all months—really necessitates a grim view of the value of our time and energy.

The pre-paid debit product was limited, but far from broken. This could and should have waited another month. And the news shouldn't break on HN.
Thanks. I guess I can see this working out if the classes end up being taught better on average (aiming for deeper understanding instead of faster advancement along a standard track to "advanced" math), and if the better-off parents generally appreciate this. If we did successfully get better teaching then it'd be natural for a greater proportion of the disadvantaged to discover they're interested in real math, too.

(I wouldn't bet on it, personally, and I don't think the infusion of wokeness is mainly about helping more people to understand math better. Hopefully I'm too cynical. The Common Core math stuff seems like progress, for instance.)
I can't get over how incredibly laggy chess is. It's the single reason I moved to lichess as I started on chesscom.
Off-topic: Speaking of the OP's username, it seems he originally used to go by StavrosK [1] on HN for several years, right?

I initially didn't recognize the username because it was all-lowercase, so I'm curious why the rename from StavrosK to stavros?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavrosk
An interesting read - thank you!
Parag has been a Twitter engineer for the last 10 years.

Reorganizing away from a functional structure is a weird choice, though.
Protection from hospitalization and death, particularly in under-65 or so, does not wear off. Neutralizing antibody levels naturally wane and can allow infection, T-cell and B-cell populations don't (unless you get infected with measles or have some other conditions, and assuming you form a robust T-cell response to begin with and aren't immunocompromised or just quite old).
If he was aware of it, he would not have allowed it occur to begin with. He was counting on Magnus to move the rook and was very visibly surprised when Magnus left the rook in place.
All Steam-like clients are useless middlemen. More of them is not a good thing. Every desktop OS on the planet already has ways to install and manage programs, and they don't demand a cut.
I did notice this "recently" like there was a recent change before dislikes of making their icons thinner. I would notice it in one account but not another.
It sometimes is enough, sometimes not. But it does have SOME undisputed efficacy and it's an area of legitimate research.
I think it is automatic, a similar thing happens to me every so often. I am don't think it is related to the content of the comment, I barely even use youtube in the browser anymore and I barely ever leave a comment. I don't think I have left any comments that could be seen as offensive. The only thing that I could think of is that my ip is setting off some kind of spam protection because I watch so much youtube, just through youtube-dl + mpv. Idk what it is exactly, but I can confirm that something like what is shown in the vid happens to people, and that it is really frustrating.
Having not read them I would be shocked if they differed dramatically from the points Gabe Newell makes about those same stores. At the end of the day both companies are trying to avoid getting squeezed out by a platform-pack-in monopoly.
The halo coming from your own vision, not as an artifact of the LCD screen or something like that, right?

Thanks for the information, this is interesting to note!
I'm sorry about your father in-law.

My dad is going through the same thing right now with Lewy Body Dementia and it's terrible. I've seen enough to know that if it shows up in me, I'm outta here. It might be hard on my family, but I'm not going to endure years of decline where most days I'm terrified from hallucinations which leads to violent outbursts directed at the people trying to help me.
Stockfish having mate in 39 moves says nothing about a match between 2 humans, already having played for over 6 hours, under very limited time constraints.
The thing is that every card has a limit, both regular debit and credit. You can easily have a bank account with no more than a couple dollars in it and DO would accept that just fine.

If you haven't preauthorized, you aren't guaranteed payment. That's why these services also have usage limits, of course--AWS doesn't want me to rack up a million dollar bill without seeing a past payment history that would indicate I can actually afford that.
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Just found this comment. I'm a bit into generative / algorithmic music; here are two demos I made a year ago: https://fligenstein.bandcamp.com/

One is just piano, the other is keys and drums. On Bandcamp they are about 10' each, but they can be made of arbitrary length, without ever repeating themselves exactly (in principle... in practice it's likely there are exact repeats but they should be few and far between).

If you have an idea of the type of background music you need, I can make other tracks too. I'd be happy to work with you on this.
Yeah they've done a remarkable job with the 2.80 update, the UI is pretty decent now.

Also its competitors are buggy-ass insanely overpriced monthly subscription proprietary editors, so no surprise there.

There are still things to complain about, like the undo speed, CSG modifier unreliability, lack of certain features, but none of them are strict deal breakers.
Wow, Israeli's spying on their main sponsor?? Espionage is part of the political territory but hopefully this sets precedent to a change of optics. (Which probably not since Russia does it boldly for fun at this point).
Please... please don't use titles like this and spoil it for everyone.

Can we edit the title to say "Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomnitchi play the longest world chess championship game"?
From all I can tell, Google Maps was not started from within Google, but started in early 2003 as Where 2 Technologies [1] and was purchased by Google in October 2004 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Rasmussen_(software_devel...,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Eilstrup_Rasmussen
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_maps#History
What you call "normality" others might call the "the same old bullshit". Calling it "normal" doesn't make it "right", or "desirable", or even "healthy". For instance, I won't be the only one in this thread pointing out what a health risk (meaning, "you'll get sick", not "u die") open office plans were before Covid showed up. So to answer the question that wasn't addressed to me, I say this because I like to work remotely and have demonstrated that I am more productive WFH. To pull me back into the office under some idea of "normalcy" is going to get an enthusiastic "bullshit" out of me.

But that even assumes there's a chance to return to "normality" to begin with. The virus is out there, it's going to be out there for a while longer if not permanently. On top of that, the winds of change have been blowing hard for going on two years now. One's desire to return to The Before Times is a dream; IMO, things will be different, in one way or another, from now on.