skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
80% of the many zetabtyes of data on the Internet will soon be unstructured. Of the remaining 20% of structured data, only a fraction of it would even qualify as relational.

Other structured data could be simple key-value stores, tabular row-and-column stores (single table, no joins), and even graph data models. Like, an Excel spreadsheet is "structured." But it's not a SQL RDBMS.

All of which are basically "NoSQL" though you can shove it in an RDBMS if you want. Just as you can slurp an Excel spreadsheet into a RDBMS. Still doesn't make Excel "relational" per se.

Can you cite a source that shows the opposite to be true?

Source: 80% of global data will be unstructured by 2025 [citing IDC]
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/the-future-of-data-revoluti...

I don't have $4,500 to throw at IDC right now, but their latest in 2021 shows that "structured" data, while still smaller than unstructured data in absolute volumes, is now growing faster than the unstructured data. Basically by tagging it with metadata. (I guess that gives a video "structure?") But this metadata management can be done by use of NoSQL, as is popular within IIoT spaces, or by streaming OOT video providers, not just by throwing all data into an ACID-compliant, locking and blocking transactional RDBMS.

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US47998321
Humans don’t really use stereopsis beyond the reach of their arms (which makes sense if you think about it). Beyond that we use semantic cues, which is why we can also understand pictures.

Sadly most research in this area went out of fashion 30+ years ago.
> Solving competitive programming problems is essentially solving hard combinatorial optimization problems.

True, but if you relax your hard requirements of optimality to admit "good enough" solutions, you can use heuristic approaches that are much more tractable. High quality heuristic solutions to NP-hard problems, enabled by ML, are going to be a big topic over the next decade, I think.
"Free speech" is not a good example in my opinion when we already have so many exceptions to it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

I'll reconsider not defending free speech from getting a "hate speech" exception when so called "free speech" proponents start talking about getting rid of the copyright exception instead of just wanting to say racist stuff.

It makes complete sense to want to expand the scope of terms that are associated with laws if you don't believe the law is accurate enough. Language evolves through social changes, and so do laws.
That is one purpose yes and that’s why it has support of the people. The PATRIOT Act is similar. Its purpose is to protect Americans from terrorism.
Eagle Filer is really good for this on Mac![1] (Not affiliated)

[1]: https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/
Here's a list of nothing where nobody figured out anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_neuroscience

I didn't ask around, but I did watch quite a few science lectures/talks by reputable scientists about how the brain and our mind works.

I also did not make any claims other than suggesting that self driving AI will eventually be possible since there is no natural law that prevents it.

Being skeptical is okay, but you might need to back up your claims.
Unsinkable Sam
I'm expecting that we should compare self-driving vehicles to the average driver, not "the average driver in a crash".
Benevolent dictatorships are great, assuming your country really has one and that the leader is competent as well as benevolent. The problem is the "transfer of power" part. That's where democracy wins. It's super hard to keep benevolent/competent dictators benevolent/competent across generations... And once you are locked into a bad one, you are screwed.
On the on Microsoft Edge chromium you can can enable an "edit and resend" feature save the requests to "Collections" and create request environments.
I am always surprised by the amount of skepticism towards deep learning on HN. When I joined the field around 10 years ago, image classification was considered a grand challenge problem (e.g. https://xkcd.com/1425/). 5 years ago, only singularity enthusiast types were envisioning things like GPT-3 and Copilot in the short term.

I think many people are uncomfortable with the idea that their own "intelligent" behavior is not that different from pattern recognition.

I do not enjoy running deep learning experiments. Doing resource-hungry empirical work is not why I got into CS. But I still believe it is very powerful.
I don't think we need a shift back to practical FX or 2d animation in general. Only for those situations CGI can't handle yet.

What we need is good stories and unambitious effects that support those stories.

The author touched on several key problems:

* Color Grading:

> Notice the color differences. Every movie now takes place as if it were in The Matrix, appearing in deep greens or blues or in gray shades, like the complex colors of the world have been bleached out.

* Shadows:

> In the 2021 Dune, it is a monochrome chunk, despite the billowing fabric around the character. In the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, the shadow of the fabric is actually see-through. It has dimensionality, thinness and thickness. Because it’s a real shadow.

* Over-ambition:

> how could the same filmmaker go from making a movie as good as The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001 to a movie as bad as The Hobbit in 2012? It’s not budgetary. The Fellowship cost 93 million to make, while The Hobbit cost 180 million.

Jurassic Park (1993) was so good and stands the test of time because the primitive CGI was hidden by night-time darkness. The filmmakers knew what was achievable and believable relative to the technology of the time.

If in 2022 you make a movie with flat colors, fake shadows, and 3D characters (like Maz Kanata in Star Wars) who need to interact in scenes with human characters, then yeah: it's going to be bad.

Modern movies fail because they're too ambitious. The battle of the five armies in The Hobbit was too ambitious: our technology can't make it look as good as live action yet.

The answer is to make movies we can make with a mix of practical + CGI, and wait for the technology to catch up. And to fix the damn color grading. Songs used to sound good. Movies used to look good.
How does that reconcile with google results getting worse over time then, with worse defined as relevancy vs. profit motives? With UI changes that de-emphasize the results and promote the ads? With pulling in cursory summarizes to keep you on a google property and isntead of qucily & easily getting you to the definitive source?

There is lots of support for assuming the worst of google in this case.
I have an SFF Dell Optiplex I bought for $100 many years ago that’s still my main “homelab” machine. It’s fairly quiet besides the two 12TB spinning hard drives inside but the fan isn’t noticing.

A rack mount server would be out of the question as I live in a small condo, both for size and noise.
You have a point.

I think in this kind of discussions when we say "CGI visual effects" we mostly implicitly also mean "...as used in fantasy/scifi movies". You know, the high profile, in-your-face effects. We don't mind the subtler effects and enhancements done to non fantastical movies, which go unnoticed and are therefore by definition suitably done :)
> RIPE will allocate an IPv6 /29 to an LIR

Last time I checked it was a /32.

More than that requires justification (and potential Euro payments depending on context/cirumstances).

Edit to add: Grrr... I see there was a policy change after $myco received its IPv6 allocation [1]. Typical. ;-(

[1] https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2012-10
I'm not sure I 100% buy this argument. Like yes, objectively the creature work in the new star wars lacks the weight and realness of the original puppets, or even those used in the Mandelorian.

But we've also got to see the world of starwars in an absolutely incredible new way! x Wings skimming over the water with incredible camera angles, spectacular space explosions, realistic lightsabers that spark and have volume (sword fighting choreography aside).
An interesting thing I've noticed recently is that CGI both opens up possibilities and closes them down, and it's in the closing that it becomes painful. As the author points out, in older practical effects movies, you knew that you wouldn't get many big macro shots of a lot of things happening at once. In Alien, you weren't going to see the alien walking around in natural light with camera angles all around it, because it would quickly become obvious that it's someone in a suit or an animatronic. In CGI you get the opposite scenario: you'll see big believable macro shots of fleets of spaceships, but when a human actor is interacting with a CGI actor, you know that they aren't going to believably inhabit the same small space: e.g. hugs, kisses, punches, etc., are probably not going to happen, or, if they do, will involve some predictable trickery. For example if a menacing CGI robot strides threateningly towards a human actor, you know they won't believably grab the actor and go face to face, not without some cunning cuts. This is especially apparent in television shows with lower budgets. The space scenes in Battlestar Galactica were consistently incredible, but I was never once convinced by the non-human Cylons when they were in the same room as humans. I watch newer CGI movies with an eye towards how artists are addressing these issues.
Isn't C++ just capable of being a lot lower level and faster because of it? Aren't all (or almost all) AAA games written using C++? I don't think C# can match C++ performance, even if it is closer than Java.
Whither Tartaria
It's cheaper to underpay and overwork your workers, both harder when the workers are unionized.
If you didn't read this post, you would have had no idea the painting was CGI. Calling it lazy is probably as justified as if your boss called you lazy for using a third party library like Python Requests instead of writing your own http library.

The fact is there is more CGI in modern films then you know. There are a million videos like this, but this [1] video on CGI in David Fincher films is really worth a watch to get a small understanding on how modern CGI is used in films in ways you might not have noticed or thought about.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChWIFi8fOY
> A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Well if we can't find monetisation that's a problem. I think we're beyond 2010 though, and people are much more open to paying for signal based information as shown by Substack, Twitter Blue, Discord Nitro, Bumble and other services.
What requires mathematical reasoning? Getting or setting the nth bit? Or swapping two variables? What am I missing?
Digital -> analog -> digital. Is that what made it so dark?

DAD cataracts?
What markets have you rented in?

I have been a renter in NYC, Seattle, and the Bay Area; every single time, I looked up how much the property last sold for and calculated how much a mortgage on it would cost me per month. My rent was normally 70%-80% of the expected payment on a 30 year mortgage.

I was never paying below-market-rate rent, either! Maybe it doesn't work out this way if you're renting in an area with lower average property values?
We completely do, but many choose not to.

One example? In Canada we have a standard for air tightness, and more, called R-2000.

Houses with this standard have to have heat exchangers, for they are so airtight, that they require air be circulated in from outside.

When it is -40C, this change can mean heating costs of 200/month vs 2000!

I assure you, houses from 100 years ago were horrid with air gaps, poor insulation, and so on. All such houses have long since been retrofitted, rebuilt, otherwise the heating and cooling bills would be ludicrous.

Old houses may look nice, but there are many things like this, which have been improved 100fold..
This is kind of neat. I wonder if it will one day be possible for it to find programs that maintain invariant properties we state in proofs. This would allow us to feel confident that even though it's generating huge programs that do weird things a human might not think of... well that it's still correct for the stated properties we care about, ie: that it's not doing anything underhanded.
The linked article about architecture was just embarrassing. A classic case of someone desperately trying to universalize their personal taste (to assume survey respondents have a consistent idea of what constitutes “classical” or “modern” is a stretch). It doesn’t engage remotely with arguments from modernists who drove this change, or the scholarship on aesthetics,… very little substance for the length.

It sort of read like a sanitized version of Charles Murray’s “Human Accomplishment”, which is a “quantitative” “argument” for why Western culture is superior that commits severe epistemic mistakes [1]. Scott Alexander has some good takes, but this is not one of them.

And to give a positive example: I challenge anyone to visit The Barbican estates in London on a clear summer day, to take in the hanging gardens and constructed river, and not be awed. Modern and contemporary architecture can absolutely move the spirit.

[1]: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray...
But doubling front cameras would add like $200 to the car BOM!!1
‘Strange’ disease rages in Kyotera, 10 dead
Se above. On MS Edge chromium you can enable to save the requests and even saved environments
Libel laws exist in Europe too, including UK. Their existence, per se, isn’t problematic.
It is also worthy to note , that comparisons are made for Marvel movies or other very high budget movies.

I would put Alien above all of them.

High budget movies could still use same techniques in these days but they aren’t.
Thanks. My search-fu was not caffeinated enough this morning.
Looking at how good real-life effects and modeling were getting in the 70s and 80s hard not to wonder how much technical progress would have happened if CGI hadn’t taken over.
do you mean cruise control as in autopilot and lanekeeping? or traditional cruise control that just keeps the same speed?

for the latter, long drives it helps relieve some tension in my legs to not have to be pressing the pedal to maintain speed. i cant speak for the former as i havent used them
Ah yes, thanks
Elon pissed off the company with good radar + camera integration: Mobileye.

In 2016, Mobileye got into a bit of a spat with Tesla, and Mobileye fired Tesla as a customer. Every other company continues to work with Mobileye's radar+optical+ultrasonic solution, but Tesla had to build its design from scratch independently.

Its no surprise to me that Mobileye, with a base of dozens-of-millions of cars, manages to do something better than Tesla (who has less than a million cars IIRC).
I don't understand why you said what you said then, or how you can understand what you said yourself.
The threadripper is also a !intel chip.
If you dont mind, do you have some link to hand that you used to set that up?

Edit: - sorry, nevermind, I should have read the rest of the comments, there is a link below this comment (at time of writing)
I feel like these points land harder when talking about animation rather than live action films.

Consider that when Disney made Bambi 2 in the 2000s, they came to the realization that their animators did not have the skill required to animate deer antlers and then basically had their hand forced into using CGI. In the 1930s this was not a problem: the film contains not just hand-animated antlers but beautifully painted backgrounds, an incredible score and some of the most expressive character animation ever produced.

It hardly seems to be a stretch to call animation done during Disney's golden age objectively better than what is being done today.
Because they are forced by NHTSA. I fully condone that btw.
For anyone else troubleshooting I learned Firefox on iOS isn’t allowed to use the Web Audio API, so things seem broken when trying to connect to a recording device. You’ll have to use Safari.
Totally don’t mind it. Sure 99% of people don’t mind it either. I don’t see the actual damage done. Comparing it to "boiling the frog" is ridiculous.

But it surely was an awesome cause for politicians who took this non-issue and made a huge deal out of it. Actual damage done: my browsing UX destroyed and great free services I used every day now under jeopardy.

Congratulations on taking your personal choice and preference and imposing it on the great majority.
> fan cooled

As if that is a benefit.

Putting a server in a corner of my home and forgetting about it is an application where I want the machine to be powerful enough to work without active cooling, as small as possible, and with no moving parts. None of these constraints is difficult to accomodate in this day and age.
the spam being targeted https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elon+crypto&sp=...
In my previous position at a fintech, I built out our customer support toolkit in LiveView, and it worked extremely well. It's not as structured as some frameworks, so you need to spend some time deciding on your own internal architecture, but once I got going, I was very productive.
...or they are different problems? Google is really good at solving their problems, maybe they only care about quality search results as related to financial incentives?
> They clearly mean to ban online tracking.

There's your error. GDPR is not about online advertising.

Things regulated by GDPR:

* CCTV in public spaces.

* Medical records.

* Employment records that businesses keep about their employees.

* Credit reports.

* Government records like voter databases and housing information.

* Trawling public business filings to send direct-mail spam.

* The loyalty card issued by your grocery store which tracks your purchases.

* The CRM database used by the sales guys in your SaaS company to keep track of hot leads.

GDPR regulates a wide array of data collection, and outright banning is not the correct solution for most of them. So it's about what obligations are attached to data collection and processing. Online advertising is only a small part of what's being regulated.

Even online, there are modes of data collection which are permissible. E.g. collecting anonymous site statistics for your own internal use. The obligations get harder and harder to satisfy when your business practice is to spread data hither and yon to whomever will pay a nickel for it.
I always click the "Yes, track everything" because it gives me better ads.
@dang I can't seem to be able to edit this is there any way to fix the formatting by any chance?
They've also been pretty hostile to OS packagers trying to let you run it without dedicating an entire device to it, most publicly NixOS but they indicated they planned to insist the same against Fedora and Gentoo too: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

That behaviour kind of makes it hard to trust that it won't lead to the next Marak situation.
> Humans don’t really use stereopsis beyond the reach of their arms (which makes sense if you think about it).

But of course we do. It's how we throw rocks and hit what we aim at. It's how we catch things. It's how we walk around anywhere that has obstacles. We use it beyond the reach of our arms really frequently.
Just wondering why you chose 23 instead of 42?
Theoretically they are exactly the same?
I've had a Subaru with Eyesight for almost six years and had zero phantom brakes during that time.

I've had it disable itself momentarily (<30 seconds) due to driving against strong sunlight (it uses visible light cameras) but aside from that the system works flawlessly.

I don't understand why more sophisticated systems that are continuously improved are simply expected to "commonly" phantom brake, but a much dumber/simpler system based on parallaxing two cameras (like the human eyeball, per the name) works reliably.

Actually I don't understanding why nobody else is using parallax in their systems? It is basically depth information for FREE using the cameras you already have. Just angle them a little, so they overlap, and then calculate the depth.
man, terraform errors are VERY vague. at least when I was using it.
> If you're trying to do analysis and not propaganda, you have to look at both routes and see what the differentiators are.

Well, the thing I see immediately is that you're not really doing an accurate analysis. Stereoscopic 3D from a fixed point of view is indeed an old concept, and definitely not enough. But we've moved well beyond that already.

I think the actual value proposition is immersive stereoscopic 3D + good in-world body-based controls. That changes things in a way something like a 3D TV can't.

Eg, for games, you can't really get more immersive than acting out your character's movements yourself. Something like Superhot lets you do Matrix-like moves in VR that just nothing else does. You can find games with slow-mo like Max Payne, but they don't make non-VR games in which you can actively move your head out of the path of a bullet and have that work naturally.

Or something like Racket NX is a very real workout that works very naturally.

The downside of course is that the tech has considerable limits and constraints that will still take time figuring out. Normal computer games worked out their mechanics over decades, so if you go back far enough to something like Dune 2, it feels very clunky.

On a longer term, I'm hoping for the day I can replace my monitors with a VR helmet and just display anything I need anywhere in an arbitrary position and amount. One can't ever have enough terminal windows.
My previous employer is on this list: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies

The driver is actually that the company needs people with a specific skillset, and their tooling is in lisp. As I saw elsewhere on HN today: "you can teach a biologist to program, but you can't teach a programmer biology". I don't think anybody is "desperate for lispers" unless their senior guru is recently departed.
Your comparison is ignorant of the realities of managing creative output (be it engineering or writing). There are only a few ways to cook a McDonalds Burger to spec. There are many ways to write passable articles or design passable widgets. Stuff like "don't publish stuff that embarrasses our investors" is easy to validate. Stuff like "can we focus more on leading readers to conclusions we like" is far more nebulous and requires either substantial and continuous effort or actual buy-in from the staff to make much effect. Considering that the conspiracy theories about big media trying to lead us down a particular path have been more or less unfounded the only option we're left with is that the changes in journalism are a reflection of the thousands of individual actors in that profession.
Colors with Google
Driving on motorway in low or medium levels of traffic.
What traffic is there moves at a consistent pace and cruise control can give your foot a rest for a period of time.
very frequently I want to chain grep things... I lean on the "|" operator for this, e.g. cat hello | grep foo | grep bar and it seems verbose. any tips?
I don’t feel that, actually. I’m not sure where you got that impression - maybe straw men are easier to debate?

There are laws and then are how laws are enacted. Hint: pay attention to how homegrown EU companies are treated.

EDIT: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Look here specifically. Sort by fine amount. Look at the companies that are being fined the hardest. It's not just the US that is being targeted. There's this island nation that recently decided they didn't want to be part of the EU...