skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Creativity requires constraints even if they are self-chosen constraints, and necessity is the mother of invention.

Perhaps the most interesting thing to come from the most recent Star Wars trilogy is that fans and an entire industry can get behind the idea of choosing retro creative constraints.
Anyone remember when vice was still a magazine and it was used by gavin mcinnes to spout off articles like 'why being a conservative is cool' and making fun of minorities in the 'dos and donts'?

Vice has always been kind of this level of head-up-ass fake.
Reinforcement learning and adversarial training can render both of those concerns as non-issues in practice.
I’ve had the misfortune of working in companies with penny-wise and pound foolish CFOs. Laser focused on the cost of snacks, or minutia like FedEx bills for single packages (and don’t delegate such investigations properly) while completely glossing over cost overruns that are orders of magnitude larger than the snack bill, because they are the pet project of someone “important“.

It is indeed strange that an article of this age points to such a common pattern where companies grow in size, yet lose perspective on the big picture.

I’m certain there are finance people who understand the role is not to universally say no to small quality of life expenses, but I have not had the opportunity to work with one.
I'll check out that article. I'd like to commend Anthony Bradley's work to you. It's a tangent to what you're working on. He focuses a lot on the relationship between fathers and sons specifically but I'm sure you'd find lots of interesting stuff on his socials, podcast, etc.

https://twitter.com/drantbradley
Why would you assume that no office building would retrofit their parking structure when there are huge incentives to do so?
For sure not all of them might, but if enough do, it will be a major benefit.
But yes, if a car isn't connected to the grid it cannot participate.
Agreed they are likely aware that there are sounds they can't stand, but they might not know why, and it can be difficult not knowing why.
Well, compare the number of films that Ghibli puts out compared to Marvel. Marvel pumps movies out at a furious pace in comparison; I'm not sure you even could sustain a Marvel-style tempo while remotely keeping up the same quality as Ghibli.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Unive...
That's interesting and it makes sense. Early and mid-stage audio courses focuses so much on the numerical differences between levels of digital integrity, 44.1 vs 48 vs 88.2 vs 96, etc., and they mention that if you encode an audio sample and compare it with a waveform analyzer that you can see the differences between the audio waveforms.

Which is true, but the differences are incredibly minor and mostly in the inaudible range, and those differences are really nothing once you consider how the audio is going to be altered and mangled to some degree by the DAC, amplification, and speakers they are played back through, the rooms they are played in, and by the listener themselves.

Fidelity is always lost, so the smart thing would be, unless it is business critical with real money on the line, to find a balance. 96k is half the size of 192k but twice DVD audio rate. I would say that's a good place to be unless your paycheck depends on something better, and if they aren't played side-by-side on a tens of thousand dollars audio system within an expertly acoustically treated room you would never be able to detect the difference.
In addition to all of the "use Z-Wave/Zigbee as much as possible" comments (which I personally do), for stuff where there's no choice like Roombas, I have a separate SSID on a VLAN that can only talk to the internet, my DNS server running Adguard, and HA (which is on the main network). I also have stateful rules that allow connections to be initiated from the main network to the IOT network, but not vice versa. I also try to find things with ESP* controllers, as mentioned.

I've really been trying to move away from cloud based stuff not only because of data privacy, but concerns about services going away and (most importantly) latency.

My old wifi smart plugs had 2+ seconds of latency from when I'd hit the button in HA to actually turning on. Zigbee/Z-wave stuff is (from my meatsack perspective) instant. I have a zigbee door sensor on the door to get into my garage, and a zigbee smart plug connected to the overhead florescent lights. By the time the door opens enough for me to actually see inside the garage, the lights are on. Sometimes I think they never turned off. It's fantastic.
I think some of these problems are solvable, if someone worked at it. The lack of gravitas of these creatures isn't in the pixels themselves, so to speak. They're in the fact that large creatures fundamentally move differently than small ones. For a sample version of this, compare the "walk cycle" of a small dog to a large one. They aren't just scaled up.

The problem is, you motion capture a normal sized person then try to linearly project their motion up to a 10 foot tall behemoth, and we can't help but see the normal-sized person underneath. The motion needs to change.

Possibly something as simple as putting some weights of the right size in the right place on the motion captured actor would do the job.
> I would expect it to be compared to L3 bandwidth not RAM.

Infinity Fabric is well known to be slower / lower-bandwidth than DRAM actually.

Just one of the peculiarities of this architecture.

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That's why understanding MESI is important. If Core#10 writes something to DRAM: then Core#45 will not be able to write to it until Core#10 releases it (aka: reaches the "invalid" state of MESI).

In contrast, writing to DRAM that's "not owned" by anybody is one-and-done. No need to communicate to other cores or chiplets.

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No _singular_ core can reach 204GB/s spec of the architecture. You only reach that 204GB/s spec if all the cores (or chiplets really) are visiting different sections of RAM independently.

This happens in practice often: the whole EPYC / Threadripper design is really aimed for virtual machines doing independent tasks. If you're trying to write high-performance code on EPYC / Threadripper, its important to keep this model in your brain.

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Once you fix this problem, your next problem is probably going to be the page-table / virtual memory system. Maybe you should be looking up huge-pages in preparation?
Paying it forward, it will help others in turn.
Lately when this discussion comes up I recommend Dave Made A Maze.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4457344/
> It's recognizing with double quotes "truth" as a different thing than Truth. Hence it's a confession that their task is to "create a new process for determining what counts as 'truth'" and not genuine fidelity to reality.

No one has access to "Truth" (with a capital T), the best you can do is try to get closer, and it seems quite honest of them to acknowledge that.

> In other words they want to be marketeers of a shared feeling of truth. That's not science, not professional journalism, that's Propaganda. They accuse people of using facts to manipulate the public imaginary and they propose to solve that problem by becoming that people themselves imposing their own manipulation of facts.

> Here is an idea: You can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts. Let reality show you Truth regardless of how that makes you feel and restrain yourself from wanting to impose worldviews on anybody. Nature is infinitely wiser than you (and all of us).

The biggest marketeers of "Propaganda" are those that claim they have access to the capital-T truth. If it feels like you have access to capital-T truth, you're almost certainly trapped inside an ideological construct.

That said, ideological constructs aren't necessarily bad things, since society simply could not function without the shared "truth" they allow for.
A day later, and after I received an email from Duck telling me the feature was now operational, it now works as intended.

Seems like there was a light delay in rolling out, or perhaps a bit too early PR.
Carpenter's The Thing is also a remake. So?

I don't think this matters much.
actually I think its illegal to criticize the government even if its true.
That case fatality rate was initially so high because there was no testing available and testing was saved for the most severe cases. If you tried to get a test you couldn’t, they wouldn’t give you a test at all unless you had confirmed contact with another person with a positive case, who also couldn’t get testing.
I don't think people generally recognize the absolute ubiquity of CGI these days. You only notice when it doesn't land, but there's an order of magnitude more you don't notice. Judging CGI on what doesn't land is as much of a fallacy as judging practical solely on what doesn't land.
Sounds very dangerous. Thank you for your service and courage.
Testing Reddit's new block feature and its effects on spreading misinformation
> Just three years after Vice publicly announced that it was pausing all work in Saudi Arabia due to the fallout from the state-ordered murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi

Here, read the fucking article
Living in Singapore sure seems to make people unable to deal with perfectly valid criticism.
DFV was a player but not the ringleader by any means. Basically a bunch of reddit users on r/wallstreetbets came up with a premise to buy into heavily shorted stocks to:

A. Initiate a short squeeze in heavily shorted stocks by having retail traders pile into them by buying shares and..

B. Strike back at market manipulators like Andrew Left and Melvin Capitol by forcing them to buy back their short positions due to skyrocketing share prices of their shorted assets.

On the wallstreetbets forum point B was touted as the reason to buy into these stock positions due to all the issues these wall street short sellers cause with traders and society in general. DFV was just lucky in that his trade was picked up by the crowd due to it being heavily shorted and eligible for point A.
There are of course some minor problems, but the overall environment creates so ”real” feeling. It is not perfect, but somehow it makes one to believe this could be real. I don’t really know how to describe that. It is missing from the modern CGI movies.
I thought about this too.

After testing with marginalia I found that much of it is still there - it is just suppressed by Google and Bing.
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That's a very close-minded and divisive comment if I've ever heard one
> So I can murder someone, and say "Innocent until proven guilty", and forbid anyone from discussing whether I'm a murderer, until I'm actually judged guilty?

In many European countries it's in fact against the law to publish the name of a suspect until a court has found them guilty. And is some it's even illegal to publish the name at all.
Tesla v11 "Break Check" update released.
I don't think you know what a straw man is.

The US spent $4 trillion last year on medicine, $670 billion was Medicare spending. I don't know where you think the remaining $3+ trillion dollars are going to come from except through doubling tax revenue. (The US took in $4 trillion last year)

You can't just tax high income people double, I already pay 26% in federal taxes with another 8% in state taxes... I don't think raising my income taxes from 34% to 60% is going to go over very well with everybody else (even remotely) similarly effected... money is going to have to come from people who are paying very little in taxes now too.
Maybe systems that use both vision and lidar or radar have this problem, but it seems unlikely that taking away the r/lidar will solve it. I don't think it is so much that multi-mode systems have problems because they have more information, but that they have problems despite having more information.
I also know of:

https://freerangecloud.com/
The comparison of the shadows in the article feels a bit weird, considering it's comparing shadows in a bright clear sky vs a sky with a lot of dust and debris. Especially weird considering Dune does a lot to make it's CGI feel more grounded then the competition.

All of Dune's outdoor scenes were filmed outdoors, to capture brighter light and sharper shadows. Instead of green screens, sand colored screens were used, to eliminate the subtle green glow from the light reflected off the screen. Even subtle things like having actual glass in the windows helps a lot to make a scene more grounded.

Is Dune's CGI perfect? Obviously not. But it does look pretty damn good. And I'd like to see more filmmakers use it as an inspiration when producing other movies.

If you want more info on Dune's CGI, I can't recommend this video enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIKupTibxKQ
I would think the latter, haha.
Kindness Is a Hidden Software Engineering Superpower
Measuring Decentralization (2015)
Thanks! IMHO "cool" is often overrated. :)
There are many claims by Musk that had a specific amount of time on them. We're supposed to be able to use our cars as an automated taxi fleet already.
I've said it 2 times now basically but I'll spell it out I guess. With the crystals they can determine the structure of errant proteins and develop treatments to target them to help people with the diseases these proteins create. Without the structure of the protein this is on the scale of extremely difficult to impossible.
It's crazy to me how you can keep those all straight. I quickly lost a lot of ability in a second language after not speaking it for a relatively short period of time.
Interesting, thanks. The reason I ask is that in my experience you don't malloc mid-flight so to speak (for WCET/WCRU reasons, among others), so Rust's guarantees there are largely irrelevant. It's a pretty opaque area of the software industry though, so others may have come to other conclusions.
How would you say your solution compares to the CockroachDB solution[1] ?

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/architecture/trans...
I don't think OP's point was that dads don't want to read articles that say "mum" in them. The point was that advice for dads is, in some cases, different than for moms.
So much of this is just how _much_ work had to be done to get practical effects to work, and how practical and CGI are often good for different things. For an insane example of this checkout this video of how they did the ship landing in the original Dune movie (of which step 1 was "rent a stadium").

https://youtu.be/OHPkdMGI6D4?t=568

Also, I think there's a very selective bias against CGI where when it looks _real_ we just assume it's real and don't notice so we're only criticizing the portion where it failed to live up to reality.
I will note you are picking some of the best effects movies of all time and comparing them with everything else.

On the other hand compare "The Expanse" (Prime Video) with B movies of the Alien era, and the level of story telling they are able to do in a long form TV show. Then compare TV shows of the Alien era. The story telling there is much aided by CGI. Tho that show uses a good mix of practical and fake. Lots of small sets for ships, lots of fake displays. Many fantastical worlds that they can pump out with CG.
Overpass phantom braking has been getting reported by drivers for years. IIRC Tesla's solution was to mark those overpass locations in some special hexmap so that the cars would then just not brake there. I don't have a source for that, though. I would hope Tesla can solve phantom braking because that could certainly be causing accidents out there.
My conspiracy theory is that bad CGI is intended to acclimate the population to bad AR.
It's untrue to say that lower classes are not paying taxes. They can't access the array of techniques the wealthy use to avoid paying their fair share. Undocumented people in particular pay into the system by having social security and other taxes deducted from their wages even though they will never be able to access the services because of their status.
You should check out Prospect (Trailer: [0]). It's an indie sci-fi that I believe is still on Netflix. It uses a minimal amount of CGI and a lot of props and practical effects. The director did a few AMAs on reddit. [1]

It stars Pedro Pascal before he made it big in The Mandaolorian.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSpw22HPdHU

[1] https://redd.it/9v4wu3
The GPT family has already shown more than 50x productivity increase by being able to solve not one, but hundreds and perhaps thousands of tasks on the same model. We used to need much more data, and the model would be more fragile, and finding the right architecture would be a problem. Now we plug a transformer with a handful of samples and it works.

I just hope LMs will prove to be just as useful in software development as they are in their own field.
It is obvious to me that computer programming is an interesting AI goal, but at the same time I wonder if I'm biased, because I'm a programmer. The authors of AlphaCode might be biased in this same way.

I guess this makes sense though, from a practical point of view. Verifying correctness would be difficult in other intellectual disciplines like physics and higher mathematics.
I'd note that assembly, C, and Python didn't replace 'programming' but were expected to do so. I'd wager that what you now call 'detailed documentation/specs' will still be called programming in 10 or even 20 years.
The problem isn't CGI per se (hell, even David Lynch uses digital blood), but the pervasive "we'll fix it in post production". This makes directors and cinematographers extremely lazy
Your position is not falsifiable either. Show me the proof that they've covered. Of course you can't. But you're confident anyway. Based on what? You're certainly in the minority among retail investors. That makes /you/ the conspiracy nut, not them.

No one said this would take a day or a month. The expression is "diamond hands"; being patient is not easy. No one know when it will happen. But what we do know is that there continues to be a steady flow of investors whom are directly registering their shares every day.
I think this criticism undoes itself. The thesis is that CGI visual effects are not convincing, not "weighty", implausible, unconvincing. But there's no mention of CGI being pervasively used outside of blockbusters! I'm not enough of a film buff to say for certain, but I'd guess it's a majority of non-indie releases. It goes unnoticed because it's seamless and convincing. It's enormously helpful to avoid an expensive location shoot or reshoot, fix an error, add setting, integrate actors and stunt doubles, all kinds of things. This article doesn't even know to complain about it because it's so dang good.

For an example off the top of my head, I know Wolf of Wall Street had a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2sJqoZD7g You can search youtube for the title of any movie and "cgi" or "visual effects" to turn up tons of examples. David Fincher's movies have some great examples.

And to hop on my bar stool and opine, I think CGI is going to lead to a revolution in filmmaking over the next decade or two as it continues to get better and cheaper. There's ubiquitous criticisms that movies the last couple decades have been so expensive that studios only put money into blockbusters, or meddle in the creators' vision, or only fund simple action movies that are easily translated, etc. When low-budget indie films get access to this stuff they're going to to have the ability to make all kinds of movies rather than just contemporary character studies with limited sets and props. (Digital distribution will help, too.) CGI will be a landmark revitalizing force for movies, much bigger and stranger and better than the New Hollywood movement in the 70s.
As someone really frustrated trying to buy a home that isn't soulless this still begs the question why we seemingly can't build buildings that are exceptional quality by the standards of 100 years ago -- at any price! For fun I've toured 5+ million dollar mansions for sale and they're just as shitty as any mass-produced suburban neighborhood, they're just bigger. Like what was even the point of technological advancement, better construction equipment, logistics, materials science just to make worse houses?
It can be run on an A40 or A6000, as well as the largest A100s. But other than that, no.
Having skilled people spend their time on this is exactly why it is suboptimal. Had Bezos spent $500 million on Bitcoin or, say, gold bars, it wouldn't matter much. Up to rounding errors, it is just moving numbers around. Here we have $500 million dollars' worth of people's time and effort going to waste. For all the good this yacht does, they might as well be digging holes in the ground and then filling them up again.
The next iteration of code assistant needs to be able to parse responses like your comment and update the code accordingly. Once a human+computer pair can converge on a correct and admissible solution to _any_ tractable programming task through natural language dialogue, we should start worrying about our jobs going away. Until then, for each line of code generated by AI, there will be two jobs created to maintain that code.
I am aware; I was a renter until a couple of years ago. I have rented houses in the East Bay (Alameda, CA) and Seattle, and in each case, my rent was 70%-80% of what the monthly payment on a 30 year mortgage on the same house would have been. The same was true of apartments I rented in Manhattan.

Maybe it doesn't work that way in other markets, but you'd have to be nuts as a renter to pay enough to cover your landlord's mortgage.
The US federal government spends $766B for Medicare + $571B for Medicaid, a sum of $1.337T out of a total $6.011T that will be spent in 2022. This does not even include the healthcare spending of Tricare and other federal government employees' healthcare, and it does not account for things like deductibles and copays and insurance premiums.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...

And that is only for old people, (very) poor people, and employees of the federal government.

Paying for every person's healthcare within a given jurisdiction would blow a massive hole in governments' budgets that I would bet even people willing to pay extra CA taxes would notice, which are currently probably only 10% to 15% extra compared to other locales. Granted this increase would be offset by not needing to pay insurance premiums or Medicare tax, but in turn, that would be offset by the additional deductible/copay expenses, plus people simply getting more healthcare because they no longer have to worry about the cost.

Note that Vermont tried and called it quits after a couple years for the same reasons:

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

For one more data point, I recall how much consternation the Affordable Care Act caused, and that one merely allowed poor people to access SOME part of healthcare. The outcry over increased health insurance premiums (a proxy for taxes) because people would now be paying to subsidize old people and sick people was and is massive.
Do you mean The Hobbit? Or what shots are you refering to? Moria?
Volvo's emergency braking system, which detected it and would have braked in time, had been restricted by Uber to not be able to take any action.

Uber's system was set in a way that "non identified object in my way" didn't trigger an immediate slow down, but instead a "sleep it off for a second and check again". It saw the impact coming, and instead of notifying the driver it decided to wait a full second first, because it was programmed to do so. Which any programmer can recognize as the "turn it off and on again" idiom that tells us their system was misidentifying lots of things.

What the driver did or did not do once notified doesn't change that. That car would have killed someone, somewhere, sometime, because it was programmed to not avoid it.