skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to remember that 2D animation has been around for over a hundred years and a lot of the bad old stuff has been filtered out by history.

I think 3D animation is just starting to hit its stride. The Netflix series Arcane is really beautiful, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse was incredible, and I was even blown away by Hotel Transylvania 4, which I was ready to write-off as corny kids dreck, but the manic slap-stick stuff they did in it is outrageously good. This isn't even getting into the epic-budget Pixar stuff...

Also if Ghibili is your bar I'd say 99% of 2D animation isn't even on par.
IMO, lot of services are not matured enough. For eg: Changing roles or even a security group from GKE/Nodepool requires nodepool replacement. We need to take care of the complete node draining and adding the new nodepool.
I too agree that GCP doesn't take customer feedbacks like AWS do.
Show HN: GreenJS, add performant React pages to an existing site
After Testing 4 Error-Reporting Services for PHP Here's Why I Stuck to Sentry
The only time I've bricked a Pi ever was when I shorted 5V and 3.3V rails in a 3B+. A friend always talks about one bricked with an apt upgrade by a broken firmware or something, never seen anything like that. Saw plenty of dead or corrupted sdcards but that can be fixed with a new one, which doesn't seem to be your case.
Maybe a bad power supply? Pi is a bit picky, you need one with 5.1V to prevent low voltage warnings.
I would stop programming if all we needed to write was unit tests :p
At Burning Man, moop is an acronym for Matter Out Of Place, a reference to the leave no trace principal of the event. People will run after a small piece of material. Again, NBD, but in tech circles this might be the first thing people think of with that acronym.

I do think Apple captures plenty of meta data, but I do not know how much physical motion is getting sent back. One of the goals of the secure enclave was to store biometrics. And despite some notable concerns, the company has generally aligned its business model and branding to be privacy focused.

I can't think of another large company I'd trust more to handle this kind of information.

>Epidemiology at this level is going to have transformative effects...

The transformation is already underway. When Apple delivered Google Maps on iPhone with its pulsing blue dot, those with the technology instantly leapt ahead of those without it. I wonder how much stress has been relieved just from people knowing where they are.

I agree the technology can be misused, even to oppress. But this is true with any tech.

My concern is more about the disparity of those who have this tech and those that don't. The enhancements could start to show in a matter of years and quality of recommendations could coalesce into what will look like a new plane of daily living.
Do I really need to link Moxie Marlinspike's talk about why it is important to be able to break the law?
I hate to say this but I'm glad to see it deorbit. For the amount of money invested, the mission produced very little quality science (compared to the amount of PR about how great their science was).

If china wants to waste money on putting people in LEO that's fine. But it doesn't do anything for the US and takes money from people who have much more ambitious robotic missions.
Whatever your opinion is on Dune otherwise--I had my doubts on first viewing but changed my mind--it was clearly a great looking movie.
While it's impressive, competing on a well specified problem does not compete with a typical developer. A very small part of an average human programmers job involves well specified problems.
I don't think shooting on film is particularly necessary; it's possible to match that look pretty convincingly. Though attention to why the film look appeals to us is always valuable.

Practical effects are probably getting easier, thanks to various 3D printing techniques, the expansion of low-cost microcontrollers, the low costs of servos, and the proliferation of small cameras and lens adaptations for rostrum/running shots.

But saving money isn't the main reason we don't have practical effects. Saving time is the main reason we don't have practical effects.
I just watched Alien again recently and had the same thought. It looks infinitely better and more realistic than anything made in the last few years. We should go back to using models and miniatures and restrict the computer to things like automated camera control.
“Being a dad is a long, emotional, draining, and lonely journey.”

This statement seems like a useful filter for finding your target audience.
Not sure on specific answers to your questions, but assuming you're on Chrome, you can view the omnibox internals on how it determines your query at

chrome://omnibox/

and

chrome://predictors/
This is only true now, until such rides become the norm. Then the margins will shrink and companies will optimize every way they can.
You mention the security stuff, but for any site running at scale, it's not really an issue. They don't use a billion plugins and they usually run on infrastructure designed from the ground up to run WP. Heck, A8C's hosting platform (WP VIP) won't let you deploy code that doesn't pass a host of linting rules.

I'm working on a site right now for a big company that's moving to VIP. We have 7 plugins, 2 of which are from VIP, and then 4 that the company I work for wrote and now maintains for use across all of our clients. Everything else is custom. The theme is 100% custom.

When orgs choose WP, they do it because they want the interface to reduce training costs, and the platform to reduce dev costs because they can take that codebase to dozens of different consultancy agencies and have them pick up where the last people left off.
Not when you include the word "provide". If you change it to "make accessible" or something else, something other than single-payer is possible. Government provision of health care coverage for all === single-payer.
Cheap, but technically well-executed. A kind of economic uncanny valley.
I like to say that being a parent didn't make me happier on a day to day basis, but it made me more fulfilled; which makes me happier overall. Long term enjoyment of my life, vs short term enjoyment of any one day.
> but AFAIK can do that off-the-shelf today using chrony with hardware timestamping or PTP. No need to invent your own.

Actually, the issue is about the max clock skew guarantees (as opposed to the average or median). Even a single violation of this breaks the ACID semantics. So, we do use chrony, but need all this to ensure there is a max guarantee. We would totally have adopted an existing solution - we did look at all alternatives available.

Disclosure: one of the founders of the YugabyteDB project
Vice news has (or had?) some actual journalists. They hired Ben Anderson whos Afghanistan and Iraq reporting was really impressive. Especially "This is what winning looks like".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
If i recall correctly he made the footage when embedded via the BBC and (re)published it on vice? Still incredibly impressed of the footage he managed to shoot as an embedded journalists. I would guess in no small parts due to the integrity of Major Bill Steuber. Unfortunately that seems to have cost him his military career. He is now a security guard in Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3y8fqJt2cU&t=1360s

Afterwards Anderson mentioned the required style of reporting at Vice negatively (the camera focusing on his reactions) but he stayed with them for a while. Not sure if he is still associated with them.

edit: Fixed timestamp & He left vice last year
https://twitter.com/benjohnanderson/status/14273137210435215...
2D animation is alive in Japan.
Right on, they're closing in on "Open"AI's best models. Can this still be run on a GPU, or does it require a lot more VRAM?
The Mandalorian filming approach is an interesting new hybrid of the CGI use & shooting with them live in a 360 screens. This gives interesting lighting also allowing more use of practical fx.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-the-mandalorian-and-il...
>If someone can crack the problem of leveraging genuine, interested-motivated human curation to deliver results without falling victim to abusive, quick-buck-motivated spamming... they could replace search engines.

That's the tension right there. The moment someone solves the first part is the moment someone will try to hijack it for their own gain. The Internet is dark and full of husslers. They want to exploit people's goodwill and trust---that stuff is costly and doesn't scale, which makes it valuable. If you want genuine interactions, you go to a quiet corner with a handful of folks and be very very careful about who you let in.
Show HN: Federalist and Bob – uncensorable website with webtorrent and Handshake
Bob Extension just added ability to resolve Handshake domain with webtorrent.

Any Handshake TLDs can update its TXT record with a magnet link pointing to a folder that contains a index.html page - Bob Extension will download and show the content using webtorrent when users go to the TLDs (e.g. federalistpapers/)

https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/18
Let's be real here, IAB Europe knew exactly that what they were doing was borderline illegal. Now it's officially illegal.
A story about what happens when very accessible recording tech, automated plagiarism-search, dirt cheap mass storage & sharing, a relatively small set of combinations of sounds that people find appealing, and long copyright terms collide.

http://spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html

IMO we're already about where this story projects we'd end up surprisingly fast under that set of circumstances, and are just kinda in denial about it.
As zytron3 said, it's all about how the question is phrased.

> > Do you want the government to give you free health care / health insurance?

> Sure, why not?

> > Do you want the government to be the only source of health care / health insurance, with everyone making more than $50k/year paying at least as much in additional taxes as they currently would pay for an unsubsidized ACA marketplace insurance plan to cover the expense?

> Wait, what?!

The question is meaningless if it only asks about what people want and not what they're willing to pay for it.
I setup Home Assistant to be able to talk to my solar inverters and see my battery voltage without walking out into the garage (over modbus).

Since then I started adding in door sensors and my thermostat. I just need to find a way to see how much propane I'm using and I'll be set.
Virtual Screening versus the Numbers (computational drug discovery)
To me it feels like the opposite. They're expected to be team players.

An example were David Sirota's International Business Times articles Clinton[1] and Trump[2].

While head of the state department (which runs weapons deals), Clinton approved arms deals to controversial countries after they donated to the Clinton Foundation. This reporting was widely attacked online, often by other journalists. The article was very detailed and well documented.

Later he wrote another equally detailed article about how Trump ripped off investors through chicanery and the article was widely applauded by the same audience.

It was the same journalist doing the same level of investigation with the same rigor, treated completely differently by the same audience. In both cases it seems like the popular reception was not based on facts at all, in either direction! The reaction was largely based on which 'team' it supported.

1- https://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapon...

2- https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/how-donald-trump-u...
Parking too close to the intersection is the bane of my existence in my home city. If someone decides to park their lifted 4runner anywhere on the block, say goodbye to seeing oncoming traffic -- it just becomes a game of russian roulette, trying to cross the street. And I drive a (small) SUV!
> Would be cool to know what approaches they take

An increasingly complex set of if / else statements.

Is it a left turn? Is it a stationary emergency vehicle? Is it a small child? Don't worry, it's all software and we'll keep sending OTA updates until we catch every edge case.
I enjoy listening to some of Rogan's podcasts. I don't agree with all of his opinions (or his guests). Also, I'm not into all of his topics (e.g., MMA).

That said, I'm interested in the criticism of him and this "misinformation" that keeps cropping up. So, I read the articles and, importantly, the comments. Rarely do I see criticism beyond simple ad hominem attacks.

Asking this community as it seems reasonable, am I missing something here? What's wrong with debating ideas with a 50/50 weighting of left/right topics for discussion (i.e., old "equal time" rules)?
There's a global theme, just like availability of everything for cheap or free, lack of limits allows bad incentives and distorts things.
Maybe it's not more abstraction we need, just automating the drudgery. Abstractions are limited - by definition they abstract things away, they are brittle.
For further context: I'm not sure if this has changed but at that time signing in seemed* to be required (there's some discussions in the ticket about confusion in the UI about this so in retrospect UX dark patterns were likely at play). However, while it may have been possible to make ad hoc requests without an account, it didn't seem to be possible to save request collections locally without sign in.
First, If this is correct, if alpha code succeeded, this will bring to its own demise.

I.e. as soon as it starts replacing humans, it will not have enough human generated training data, since all of programming will be done by models like himself.

Second, alphacode was specifically trained for competitive programming :

1. short programs.
2. Each program has 100's of human generated solutions.

However, commercial program are:

1. long.
2. Have no predefined answer or even correct answer.
3. Need to use/reuse a lot of legacy code.
> AlphaCode was tested on 10 of challenges that had been tackled by 5,000 users on the Codeforces site.

> “I was sceptical [sic] because even in simple competitive problems it is often required not only to implement the algorithm, but also (and this is the most difficult part) to invent it.”

So AlphaCode can "invent" a solution after seeing 5,000 other solutions? I'm not clear, is it producing an answer to a unique question? Or is it doing the same work a single solution plus copy and paste could do?

Considering how many of us do CRUD tasks all day, every day, this might be surprisingly effective. The question is, will unique work take the place of those CRUD tasks we've all done 5,000 times?
> it sure looks like the whole thing has been over for at least six months

I think for passive spectators it may feel that way. For those people in it (and I was in WSB from before this started), it's absolutely right in the middle of the action. They has a steady march of registering shares for months and it's not letting up.

The more that directly register their shares, the smaller the pool to manage the price. It doesn't have to hit 100% for there to be an effect. But if it ever does hit 100%, wow.
This was key to me understanding IPv6 - you don't really do variable length subnets. You just get a /48 and break that up into /64's. Because the space is so vast, you can do inefficient things with no chance of running into allocation issues like v4 and you don't have to mentally try and subnet a 128 bit address which maybe some can handle but hurts my head.
Different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24
I don't really have a MEP that's "mine", it's proportional representation,not a district system.
While I agree with his premise, the author's entire argument is: <amazing old film> is better than <terrible new film>, so CGI is bad.

- Is there any reason to believe that the Lord of the Rings trilogy used less CGI than the Hobbit trilogy?

- Same for the Matrix trilogy vs Matrix Revolutions?

- The CGI in the newer Star Wars films is actually fantastic. It was everything else that was a letdown and caused it to be an inferior product over the originals.

What we really should be blaming is the paint-by-numbers formula for film production used by all big studios nowadays. There are no original properties, no risks taken. Using practical effects vs CGI isn't going to change this fact or dramatically make a bad movie good.
Rogan isn't so bad overall, but there really is a strain of health nonsense in his stuff. As an overall theme I don't even mind it: Telling dudes, in a casually masculine way, to take care of themselves? Sure, that's fine. Training? Sure! Yoga? If that's how you want to do it. But -- weird pills and supplements? Hold on now.
The author uses OpenBSD which uses ksh as their default shell. I just ran ksh on Arch Linux and even though `touch foo:bar` worked, when I did tab-completion the shell escaped the colon anyway, making my command `touch foo\:bar`. I assume its related to this, but I've never used ksh before so I can't explain the difference in the tab-completion behavior.
Babysitters exist. We arranged one for that event, and should be considered responsible. Anything else you'd like to try and drag me on?

Here's the original reply for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133543
One of the most damning comparisons to me are the orcs in the LOTR movies vs. the ones in the Hobbit movies, the former being practical make-up and the latter being almost entirely CGI. It's night and day, the LOTR orcs are a million times more believable and look like real organic living things, whereas the Hobbit movies end up looking like sterile video game cutscenes at times
Hadn't even opened the article yet and I was thinking exactly this, 'bet they forgot NUMA'
CGI is to movies as autotune is to music or makeup is to beauty. When you have a solid base, and merely use these things to clean up a few rough edges, it works wonderfully. When you destroy any sense of realism or humanity under an entirely synthetic facade... yeah, nobody's buying it, it destroys the emersion, and it all looks / sounds the same after awhile.
I don't give a damn about one single upper-middle class guy that seems intelligent, friendly and made his hobby his job hitting the lottery and making 8 digit retirement money in a once-in-a-lifetime way with some lols along the way.

I do give a damn about 9-12 digit old money on Wall Street and elsewhere profiting from rigged systems and trying to deflect the mobs anger from them onto the aforementioned single upper-middle class guy.
No it doesn't. Democracies don't do this because it's posturing designed to appeal to a particular kind of person (e.g. your kind of person).

Normal people don't care about cookies or consent popups and merely find them annoying/frustrating. I've never, ever heard anyone praise these popups outside of Europeans posting on Hacker News. That's a small community and it's a bubble convinced of its own purity.

Here's why democracies don't do this kind of thing: democratically elected governments are expected to generate economic growth and jobs by voters. Constantly levying massive fines on companies who aren't actually upsetting most citizens, via ultra-vague laws that create "tails we win, heads we also win" outcomes for the bureaucracy, is something that most mature democracies realized don't work out well in the long run. So they don't do it.

The EU has no such concerns because it's not accountable to anyone, for anything, despite what sometimes people like to try and claim. Result: a stagnant economy with an ever shrinking proportion of global GDP that tries to cover up its damningly consistent failure to produce successful tech firms by pretending it's too morally righteous to do so.

Signed,

A European. But not an "EU citizen".
I liked the idea, wanted to give it a go.

At first try the website did not load, a few refreshes later I can now see the home screen but nothing happens when I click anywhere on the page.
This is just war propaganda. This isn't the sixties anymore, Israel isn't surrounded by a coalition of pan-Arab states wishing to destroy it. In fact, a good chunk of the Arab world is now closely linked and maintain good relations with Israel (Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc.)

Congratz, you've just been brainwashed by the military industrial complex who just want to maintain Israel in a state of perpetual war to sustain ever-increasing defense spending.
Welcome to macroeconomics, free trade, globalization, and simple business strategy, topics which can't be adequately conveyed in a forum comment.

Almost every product you buy benefits from the lower costs of labor and everything else in foreign economies in one way or another. The flip side is you generally have to lower your own prices to sell in those economies as well.

You could try to keep prices constant globally, but in much of the world there would just be 0 sales. The strategy is to make up for a smaller profit margin with larger volume.

Buy at a discount from foreign countries, sell at a discount to foreign countries, as a result, pull their economies closer to your own and create new markets for your higher grade products.

Everyone on HN is always on about selling your product for what people will pay for it (usually with regards to raising prices) and paying employees market rates. Well it works both ways and you sell your products for what you can get, especially when their is moral pressure all around to not be seen profiting too much from the poorest countries.
The analogy that the people in the US are “employees” of pharm companies is the wrong analogy. There is no obligation here.

Companies price discriminate all the time. It’s capitalism. I run a SaaS and offer lower pricing to businesses from lower cost countries. But it doesn’t mean I’m subsidizing costs thanks to richer countries. It’s so I’m not leaving money on the table.
I've been doing stable coin investing. BlockFi pays 8.75% interest on stable coins (which should always be worth $1). Feels safe return in this crazy environment.

I also take out loans from schwab for extra leverage. I made a calculator here for it so as rates change, I can calculate my returns.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13FVmtdamdNhBhId8xwjU...
You say this with zero examples or evidence, and yet having read their reporting for many years they always have good evidence and examples. So frankly, I find them a lot more credible than you.

I'm not suggesting removing representative democracy, you're creating a strawman there, I'm saying that starting at the assumption that everyone is a moron that must have their information stream managed is bad for democracy; and that your average representative has more blind spots than we care to admit.

Besides, frankly your average representative doesn't actually do that much research into most topics, they either take the party line or do whatever their biggest donors ask them to do. So in essence you're not generally represented by Jim Bob, you're represented by oil companies or insurance companies or hedge funds etc..
For now. There's a failing 2d animator field in Japan. Either the die or organize.
I also think a lot of CGI has hurt the directing side of things. Once you virutalize the camera the same sort of things happens where there's no gravity to a situation. I first started noticing it in Fellowship of the Ring where there were many establishing shots with a roller-coaster of a camera floating through the air. Those weren't egregious but now it's everywhere and poorly done. Give the camera some weight, let things be still.
There have been many tickets opened (and closed) on this problem. Searching their issues for the keyword "offline" should bring up some of them. This one is just the latest.