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The blue-eye effect looked to me like the first colourised movies where they hand-painted the actual film. It really put it me off. I don't know if they were meant to be "glowing" or if the colour just "bled" outside the contours of the eyes. Either way, I wasn't a fan.

The rest was fine though. I've often thought that it's silly to spend so much time creating a huge digital scene with lots of detail only to pan by it in less than a second. Dune got that part right. Linger!
I just migrated all of my "production" home things to an HP Elitedesk 800 G3. It's great! Maxed out the ram and threw a 1TB SSD in. I'm using Proxmox and have:

* home assistant VM

* pi-hole primary LXC

* UniFi controller LXC

* media stack LXC (jellyfin is installed directly on the host to minimize hardware transcoding issues)

* a VM running various docker containers with dokku, including AppDaemon

It's barely ticking over most of the time and using very little energy.

We use zwave devices around the house and due to issues making zwave complex (RF + brick = bad, plus it's a very long house), I actually have a handful of Raspberry Pis with zwave sticks running zwavejs2mqtt scattered around. Yesterday I decided that I'm tired of dealing with the rPi-zero-W being so slow so I ordered a bunch of Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients off of eBay to replace them. Still trying to decide how I'm going to run them but probably it'll look something like Alpine diskless running docker and zwavejs2mqtt in a container.
Understood, but the fanfare is coming from the fact one can take a language without JSON, or SQL, or infix notation, or ..., and add it as a library. It means the language itself is flexible enough to support future paradigms and standards at the code level without a language redesign.

I agree it's nice when something as common today as JSON is built in to a language. But for something like Common Lisp, whose roots are now nearly 40 years old, the fact it can easily support JSON literals is nothing short of amazing.
Thanks! This is an informed take.
A joke, yes, but note that Times New Roman was commissioned and first used by the LONDON Times, not the New York Times.
I've been running email servers since the '90s, and there's surprisingly little work that needs to be done once it's up and running.
Not as of now unfortunately. It is very hard to maintain multiple codebases that basically do the same thing. It is doubly hard for software that is supposed to validate other software because as solving every bug becomes a nightmare. We are focused on bringing a near-native experience on Windows and macOS this year though with better keybindings and UI layer integrations with the OS.

That said, we are looking into iOS and mobile devices right now - a smaller problem set before we look into native clients.
Did you read the part which says "micro", these are about 2-3x the size of Pi with those cheap plastic cases. I had mine beside the router before I moved it inside TV console.

Pi will be single purpose device, the "micro" can be full blown server and comes with ALL parts required, no need to hunt for good PSU, case, cooling, storage. Some of them come with 1 Sata and 2x M.2 NVMe, so you can literally pass those NVMe to TrueNAS in proxmox and run full blown NAS with encryption/encoding/decoding in VM.
Thank you, I will do!
Without government intervention wouldn't the headline eventually be, "US Farmers Organize to Form Open Source Tractor Manufacturing Group"?
Can you find any contemporary reviews or commentary mentioning it?
There's quite a bit CGI Grogu in The Mandalorian. You just don't notice it because it's done well.

And remember, the the prequels were literally the first movies to have CGI major characters. Basing the effectiveness of the technique on them would be like basing all of practical effects on the first movie to have puppets.
I dont think that is necessarily a limitation of this at all - more of an aesthetic choice. They could have easily composited long shots.

The bigger thing I notice today with these products is that everything is just too damn CLEAN. When you have a bunch of real people shooting on what is supposed to be "tatooine" there is real dust flying everywhere and sand getting on their shoes and whatnot. On a light stage unless you have people specifically making the outfits and whatnot dirty and ragged it is going to start and stay perfectly shiny and new. It seems ridiculously honestly.

I have not actually looked up if that new Sci Fi "Foundation" was shot mostly on light stages but I suspect it was as the supposedly uber rugged colony that was supposed to be so limited in supplies with extremely harsh weather ends up just having a bunch of colonists with perfectly done hair and perfectly clean sci fi getups and a total lack of weather or clouds. It really took me out of it.
Extreme measures would have to remain in place until the threat has been mitigated, which is not realistic because the world is not capable of taking equal measure like that on a global scale
Simple laissez faire competition leads to many solutions that are more optimal than naively creating a product people want at an attractive price. The game needs to be regulated to force the "right" kind of solutions to the top but that would be a difficult thing to do even if regulators weren't already part of the "wrong" way of competing.

We can still "vote" with our wallets but just like in real elections sometimes it's really hard to even get some worthwhile candidates on the ballot.
Autopilot already does that very well and has for a few years and comes for free with each Tesla. you don’t need to pay the $12k FSD package for that
The author, is at best misguided, or worse lying.

yes, "CGI" movies are dire. Not because of the CGI, but because they lack story and vision.

Let us look at the main thrust of the argument: CGI movies feel fake.

This is patently false. Did you know that the Great Gatsby(2013) has a fucktonne of CGI in it? https://www.redsharknews.com/post-vfx/item/859-the-great-gat...

same with wolf of all street: https://youtu.be/2D7MqlNWUEs?t=137

more modern version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzQKsgNt70

CGI is there for set extensions, and is really common. Its often cheaper to do a virtual set extension, than it is to build it for real.

In short, the author is pining for the "good old days" which were never there. Yes, there are some standout films that look great from the last 60 years. But we are forgetting the sheer amount of dross.

Of _course_ lawrence of arabia is gorgeous, its shot in technicolor with a fucking massive budget. Its an adventure movie, like jumanji its going to have bright colours.

Dune is dystopian rebel movies, about complex and grubby power struggles. Just as it always rains when the main character is sad, or there is a storm when things go wrong, colour is a tool to signpost emotion.

The author is a typical film theory fan, all talk and no experience.

TLDR: the author is comparing the cream of 50 years of film to generic movies of today. Asserting things that are demonstrably untrue, as 95% of all big budget films have digital set extensions and other CGI elements.
64-bit Raspberry Pi OS exits beta, is available for all Pi 3, 4 and Zero 2 board
Hmm, here it says 2D polymers were created first at ETH in 2012:

https://scitechdaily.com/two-dimensional-polymers-created-fo...

Either way, looking forward to buying this stuff cheap and in bulk from McMaster!
I read this article a few years ago, and it put me off reading Cloud Atlas for quite a while; I didn't know which version to read, and didn't want to read both. But last year I decided to just go for it and read the American version. It was a thoroughly rewarding read.

Cloud Atlas has an interesting interleaved timeline structure, which I'm particularly fond of when well done. The Licanius trilogy by James Islington has some similar devices. And Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks, which is one of my favorite books ever, does something even more involved: forward and backward story lines meet in the middle.
I would imagine the intelligence services aren't happy he's providing them free pen-test services. He's taking potential tools out of their toolbox when they may need/want them in a future time of conflict.
> I'd claim that no other company is criticized as harshly as Mozilla around here. The amount of blame that is assigned to the Firefox team is staggering.

They set themselves a higher standard by marketing as the good guys who fight for the user, and then made any number of moves that said users viewed as not being in their interests. Of course they get more blame. Like, Chrome has issues, but they're issues in line with being made by an adtech company; we might be unhappy at Google breaking adblockers (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...), but it's not out of character. Mozilla can say "More power to you. Mozilla puts people before profit, creating products, technologies and programs that make the internet healthier for everyone." (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/) or they can, say, make Google the default engine ($), bake in a proprietary service (Pocket), rip out features (RIP compact theme), overrule user autonomy (Want to install an extension? Better upload it to Mozilla to get signed so they permit you to run it on your own computer!), ship a marketing extension through the "experiments" feature (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-looking-...).... but not both. Either empower the user, or don't, but don't pretend to empower the user while ripping away their control.
If you remove the last two words it reads much more like an elon tweet.
Also, I think a lot of it was having to make Orlando Bloom (Legolas) look younger instead of 10 years older (like in real life).

It seemed to give a certain fakeness to all the faces.
>It should be impossible for the phrase "the recent Firefox outage" to make sense.

It makes perfect sense a world where half the internet is going through Google / Cloudflare / Amazon /Akamai servers or some combination of the above, and they decide to roll out brand-spanking-new protocols to half of the internet at once. Sometimes that's going to break clients.

I don't like that world very much, but it's the one we live in.
I would add that seeing somebody "forgetting" NUMA makes it likely there is a lot of other problems.

NUMA isn't something you "forget" when you try to test bandwidth limits. It suggest lack of understanding of how that stuff works.

It is as if somebody failed to reach hard drive transfer speeds and they "forgot" they need to be looking at the access pattern.
People have some very intense opinions of computer modern. I stumbled into a thread where many claimed it was the worst font ever made, and others saying it was the best thing to happen to digitally published academia. You may have just opened a can of worms...
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I'm of two minds on it. First it's good to see RtR finally making some possible progress but at the same time scoping it to farmers initially gives up some leverage that could maybe be used to get general RtR to actually pass. By solving the problem for farmers you get rid of one of the big stories behind RtR that appeals to the Republican world view.
It’s exactly the same as movies - what’s missing is mass. Old houses made of stone and dense wood have mass and warmth and stability. Modern houses in the US are light and hollow. Even the walls are literally hollow.
One thing that bothers me about a lot of new movies and TV shows is that the actors just look digitally inserted. Even when it’s a static shot and there’s no interaction with the background, it just looks wrong. I’m not sure how I identify it, but I suspect it has something to do with the way the actors are lit. I remember watching a Marvel movie where all the heroes were shown as a group at the end and I felt like I was looking at a high school yearbook because it seemed like they weren’t all present in the same space. The production values are high for a movie like that and you’d think they’d be using state of the art techniques.
You should check it out and watch the netflix series about it. Of course today movies have way more VFX shots than before. The technology isn't as expensive and is much more available to be used. They were just inventing it back then.
When my G3 (newer version of parent's machine) is booting up all of the VMs it's running it can get kind of noisy but it settles down quickly to basically silent.
On the plus side, you didn't get any Covidiots or transphobes, so you got the wholesome end of the HN user base.
It is hard to think of a good example of CGI from modern films because good CGI is invisible. There are an incredible number of effects shots in modern films and TV, everything from removing backgrounds to replacing stuntpeoples faces with the stars. Most of it you will never even notice unless you look.

I don't disagree with the article entirely but I think the landscape of film has changed so much over the years that it is hard to make a comparison. The rise of superhero films has meant that blockbusters these days have to include comic-book style CGI characters, spaceships, and citywide destruction that is always going to look fake because it is literally incredible (as in non-credible) to our eyes.

Dune is an interesting case because we can directly compare Dune 2021 to Dune 1984. Both SFX powerhouses of their times. Dune 1984 does contain some very impressive shots but nobody is going to say that it looks better than 2021.
Solving some formal math olympiad problems
I played around with Pis a lot in the OG Pi 1B era and yeah, I got tired of fixing it every couple months (I attribute this to power quality and SD card failures) and just moved to using various x86 based systems. I used surplus SFF optiplexes from surplus sales (paid as little as $5 for some), AM1-based mITX (mobo+CPU for $50!), or Atom-based NUCs (used to get "surplus" J5005 NUCs with the plastic still on for $125).

I'm looking to get back into it with some Pi4s for a few things - but I'm planning to PXE boot this time around to try and sidestep the SD card/power problems. Basically just stuff like LibreElec to free up some of my J5005 NUCs for actual stuff.
I've been wondering this for a while:

In the future, code-writing AI could be tasked with generating the most reliable and/or optimized code to pass your unit tests. Human programmers will decide what we want the software to do, make sure that we find all the edge cases and define as many unit tests as possible, and let the AI write significant portions of the product. Not only that, but you could include benchmarks that pit AI against itself to improve runtime or memory performance. Programmers can spend more time thinking about what they want the final product to do, rather than getting mired in mundane details, and be guaranteed that portions of software will perform extremely well.

Is this a naive fantasy on my part, or actually possible?
> do you believe there is some greater organism or what have you with the ability to integrate human consciousnesses

Haven't seen any evidence for it.
Yeah it's just amazing to have this real time world system chewing through data. Particularly if say they're taking a picture and pulling points from it and doing that at some refresh rate/computing... idk just cool.

And the loops checking like "I accelerated, it has been this much time, did I actually move 10 meters" or whatever. Then you check if something stationary shrunk by that much in size from the camera perspective...

Side tangent but some drones use this cool technology called "visual inertial odometry"
Does this mean that we can all stop grinding leetcode now?
A decade ago this would have been art.
It's par for the course coming from Vice. Their founder, Gavin McInnes[0] is the founder of the Proud Boys far right group.

Fair bit of warning, some quotes from his Wikipedia page are disturbing, to say the least. Keep in mind that he probably still has shares in Vice so watching their content lines up his pockets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes
>exceed $20-50 million, you can get basically whatever you can think up.

Does that money give you access to people who can build a home with soul?

An 18-car garage on its own is just a flex.

>had a 26ft-tall marble fireplace from a castle/villa in Italy

To me, this is a hint that the client couldn't find somebody to build something soulful anew. Instead, he had to take something exquisite from somewhere else to fill the void in his new house.
Too bad the article does not actually say what the material is made out of. Does this beat UHWMPE? Because UHMWPE is already damn strung stuff for its weight. But the big downside being that because it is so damn dense it cannot be thermoformed (the big plus being that it also has a huge range of temperature resistance)

edit:

Correction, it looks like they call it "polyaramide" which sounds like it is similar to Aramid like Kevlar. Interesting
Thank you for linking it!
Journalists need to be everwhere regardless of the political situation.

The Guardian's competitor also has operations in the US which supplies the Saudis weapons in exchange for oil denominated in USD. The US jails journalists such as Assange. So let's not be hypocritical.
We've found that dads in the 0~6 year old range want to have the content at their fingertips for when they have a few minutes off (toilet breaks!!), and not having to fiddle with their laptop and get more distracted.
But I get that this might not work for everyone.
We think that we have better control over the experience in an app, and I'll add that the type of features we're currently building will be easier to interact with from an app than from desktop.
> As you listen to that gentle creaking, or that low-tone burbling, what you feel at that moment is the deep satisfaction that comes from witnessing Being, in all its irreducible and incomputable eddies and swirls. Your eyes are satiated. There’s probably a German word for it, and if not, there should be.

Waldeinsamkeit
He claimed on Twitter spaces a couple weeks ago that he has a large investment in Tesla as well - based on their gross margins and growth, not based on FSD
I always used "-e ^" the same way you're using a null string, to show all lines of the files, each prefixed with the path and filename. Are they equivalent or is there a caveat I should watch out for?
Iran doesn't want peace with Israel, Iran wants Israel dismantled as a Jewish state. There is no negotiating with this.
Calling it now: If current language models can solve competitive programming at an average human level, we’re only a decade or less off from competitive programming being as solved as Go or Chess.

Deepmind or openAI will do it.
If not them, it will be a Chinese research group on par with them.

I’ll be considering a new career. It will still be in computer science but it won’t be writing a lot of code.
There’ll be several new career paths made possible by this technology as greater worker productivity makes possible greater specialization.
This reminds me of a paper, which I can't find but can summarize (a less-in-depth version of the argument is advanced in quotes by a journalism professor here [0]).

The argument, as I remember it, asserted that journalism is a semi-profession because journalists are expected to adhere to ethical principles widely practiced by reporters (e.g. fairness, accuracy, ethics). However, it's not a profession on the same level as physicians or lawyers because they don't require licenses or credentials (whether this is a good or bad aspect is up for debate, but it's a description of the way the field currently works).

Since the code of ethics aren't widely agreed upon (different unions of journalists and different newspaper publications have slightly different codes of ethics), there is a loss of professionalism in an academic sense (versus lawyers and physicians where the ethical codes are more standardized and may have legal or at least stronger moral binding). However, this does elevate journalism above a non-profession, as there are still ethical principles widely agreed with among credible journalists (e.g. if a source tells you information off-the-record, you protect their identity, even if threatened with imprisonment or personal harm).

[0] https://j-source.ca/can-journalism-be-a-profession/
I think musk would fight that as he, as of late, seems to be against such subsidies and assistance that would help firms not Tesla.
What's the language being used here to define the interface? I don't understand what's intended by terms like "Nat" or "Fin" or "**" or "->" and don't see any link to documentation or even a name I can google.
Nope, nothing heavy like that. I don't know what the threshold is for every use case, but for me once I got more than maybe 50 devices, HA started to struggle on the Pi. The NUC is lightning fast, however, and I've grown my HA considerably since. Plus it's nice to be able to run ESXi on the NUC and have VMs for other things too, e.g. Grafana, etc.
I would suggest reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books: Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and others. Its a bit dense reading, but well worth it.

I would point to Taleb's Barbell Strategy (google it) for any type of portfolio investing with high risk asset classes and I would consider crypto assets to be high risk (I don't invest in it). In the book, he talks about how to take on a little bit of risk without betting the entire farm.
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There's no reason to believe that we'll need another 50x more developers, though.
Funnily enough, I felt some of the practical effects in Dune were lackluster relative to its acclaim and high production, as well. The orinthopter in the sandstorm looked too much like a child's toy. The aerial shots of Arrakeen City looked neat as a display model, but not enough like an actual city.
About the BG swap feature there's at least this blog post: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/background-features-in-goo...

Rereading the blog post, they do seem to use WebAssembly as well there and the abovementioned SIMD feature (through XNNPACK).
"And so in 2022 the species programmus programmicus went extinct"
I don't want to pry but did you lose those friends or was it a pause in your relationship? I had kids earlier than most of my friends, and like you, my social life got put on hold. Now that the kids are older, I've been able to get together with those friends again - although the burden is often on them now to work around kids' schedules.
I recall hearing similar claims of graphene a while back. I realize that the lag time between academic proof-of-concept and commercial availability is large, but I still haven't heard of any products coming out that are made of graphene. Do these materials' use cases overlap?
I currently run a home server on a librem laptop where I broke the lid and can't be opened anymore without breaking it further (I tried to repair it, but since some parts broke mechanically I couldn't really fix it)

Works kinda nice and is completely silent most of the time.
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I have a feeling this is the correct read in terms of progression. But I'm skeptical if it'll ever be able to synthesize a program entirely. I imagine that in the future we'll have some sort of computer language more like written language that will be used by some sort of AI to generate software to meet certain demands, but might need some manual connections when requirements are hazy or needs a more human touch in the UI/UX
Okay, thanks! My primary interest is for spot instance CI workers, so yeah, the deployment side is a non-issue and having a sane story for auto-scaling many small short-term workloads is exactly my scenario.
So none of the existing competition is interested in making a play for the customers who don't want to be locked into the Deere scheme? That's fascinating.