skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The controlplane costs ~$45USD/year to run but so far my experience with it has been super positive. They support new releases quickly and if you're using managed node groups you can do blue/green version upgrades.

The main tradeoff for using EKS is the built-in CNI is limited by the number of virtual IPs you can assign to a given node type's network adapters. If you are running a bunch of small workloads you end up with very under-utilized compute and if you're using autoscaling that results in a lot of churn. We replaced it with weave-cni which has it's own set of headaches in regards to pod access to the control plane but it does allow us to run a basically unlimited number of small workloads on somewhat beefy instances. We set it up using spot pricing and the costs have been very low.
Ok here’s an example on a more visual genre. Practical Yoda is more believable than CGI Yoda. (Practical Yoda can’t do the “jumping pea” stuff but that was entirely laughable and defied suspension of disbelief entirely. )
I've spent a year researching and talking to parenting professionals, academic researchers, therapists, parent support group organizers (online and offline).
We ended up working with 18 parenting professionals, most of them PhDs, to write content that is relevant to the spectrum of needs that dads are expressing.

The social network side of things was to try and reach dads where I was able to (being a non parenting professional) and validate that dads were indeed looking for such support on this range of subjects. Dads are on social networks and it's a great place to reach out to them. We agree that social networks are a terrible interface to offer support. We use it as a beacon to say, we hear you, we see you and we have our app if you want more qualified support.
LOTR had the occasional bad VFX. One that stood out to me, in the theaters, was when Treebeard carries Merry and Pippin through Fangorn Forest: the compositing on the background is sloppy and the lighting on the hobbits doesn't go with it.
That's not it.

We buy puppet Yoda as being real (or at least suspend disbelief) in a way we simply can't do with CGI Yoda.
I was curious how claims like this line up with the incredibly stark difference between, say, the US and New Zealand:

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

The PDF here actually mentions New Zealand, as one of the studies is about it. But reading that, it doesn't compare New Zealand to other countries, but does within-country analyses (different parts of the same country, like US states, or the same parts at different times).

I am not an expert on this topic, but isn't it fair to say that New Zealand's massively lower death rate is due, in part, to lockdowns? Without a lockdown to get things under control things likely would have progressed as in almost all other countries.

With that said, I think it's possible that for most countries lockdowns might have a minor effect. If say California goes into lockdown but other states don't, for example, then the spread might reach it anyhow eventually. So I would bet that both things are true: lockdowns can be a critical part of a COVID response, even if on average perhaps they are not.

Regardless, all this is moot at this point. The early lockdowns were critical for reasons like US hospitals not having enough masks and other protective equipment, and vaccines were far off. Lockdowns bought us time - they were justified back then. The situation is obviously different now, and perhaps they are not justified today in most places.

(Again, caveats that I am not an expert on any of this.)
As the subtitle says Joe Rogan is like Gwyneth Paltrow.

Celebrities turned into snake-oil salesmen.
> but it could make developers 50x productive

More likely it will translate the abstraction level by some vector of 50 elements.
Bad CGI.Bad animation.

Good CGI is invisible.
I agree, as corrupt as some military industry can be, I highly doubt something dumb as aluminum foil can defeat the laser.
I didn't remotely imply any of that.

You fabricated a bunch of ideas which have nothing to do with what I said.

'Very convenient fabrication'.

--> If you put a lot more dollars into the real economy by direct distribution, then rents will go up via systematic collusion. Most of that money handed out will be captured by landlords.

That has nothing to do with with what may or may not happen if you concentrate money in the financial sector via whatever means.
I think the other thing that is missing from this conversation is the bar of entry has lowered so much with modern CGI. Look at a YouTube channel like Dust[0], which has literally hundreds of sci-fi short films using CGI to tell stories. Sure, they aren't 2022 blockbuster level, but they are 2010 TV level. There is simply no way practical effects would be able to scale the way that CGI has.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/watchdust
The point of an independently-written newspaper obituary isn't hagiography (or endorsement of everything the notable person did). There is a slant to avoid speaking too ill of the dead, but typically obituary writers do not shy away from mentioning controversial aspects of the subject's life.

The writer isn't celebrating that he funded the contras, but is instead reporting how he was perceived by the American political class, and also mention key controversies he was involved with. The mention of his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair is an example of responsible reporting; in contrast, an irresponsible writer would have omitted the topic, and you would have never read it.
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%, the price has no upper bound.
Things you should never do:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> until then, I want to think about the words on the screen.

The article is called "write it in Garamond" - the premise of the article is that the chosen font directs the words to be written.

> creative output of any kind depends upon a steady stream of tiny self-delusions — guardrails to keep yourself from veering into a pit of self-doubt and despair

You're letting iA Writer choose this effect for you, which is also valid, but it doesn't "free" you from the effect (if you buy into the article).
So once again, let’s speak about what the issue is not what it is not.

The argument here isn’t that there are no corner cases where legitimate businesses with 401ks tax returns and all that send you too many communications.

On twitter specifically, low quality clickbait is almost always tied to policy violating , if not illegal activity.

If you can’t even admit that, well, you should really engage in conversation with more good faith or more expertise than you have at present.
Cost is the only thing that matters. I don't believe the budgets of today's movies are any smaller than they were before CGI, CGI artists are very much expensive and there are tens of thousands of them working on a movie.
I agree that flattening the curve should have benefitted society and saved lives.

Regarding chickenpox, it becomes more and more dangerous the later in life you catch it. Getting it as a 5yo is annoying. Getting it at 15 can be quite a bit more dangerous. getting it for the first time at 40 can be lethal.
Have a look at the remakes of Berserk or Sailor Moon. These are two of the most high-profile anime and manga franchises out there and should have plenty of financial backing, yet they look WAY worse than their cel animated counterparts from the 90s.

https://mangathrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pjimage-2...

https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
That document was written by Facebook's lawyers, not the judge.
Yeah I really thought it was clear how much of a huge bummer this news is. Rewrite is as 'Farmers are having their work held hostage by, of all things, tractor DRM, and there's a mere proposal to pump the breaks on this absolute cyberpunk nightmare"
At what point does HA get too laggy? Are you doing audio/video transcoding?
Model-driven development and code generation from UML were once supposed to be the future. It will be interesting to see how much further this approach takes us.

Assuming ANNs resemble the way human brain function you'd also expect them to introduce bugs. And so the actual humans beings would partake in debugging too.
(OP here) I'm not sure actually

I'm running bash I have to escape it otherwise the shell doesn't autocomplete.

But ls/vim seems to be fine with the path without escaping so I guess I'm wrong.

Anyway, another problem is:
~/git/git.chown.me/ipam (master %=)$ vim ipv6/2a0e\:f43\:\:-48/2a0e\:f43\:<tab><tab>
I get:
2a0e:f43:0:100:-56/ 2a0e:f43:0:fd00::-56/ 2a0e:f43:0:fe00::-56/ 2a0e:f43:0:ff00::-56/ 2a0e:f43::-56/

it's a mess to find the difference between the possibility haha
Thoughts on having native clients for Mac/Windows?
I'll look into it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Pretty sure that was exactly the point of that segment.
It was more than that. They also significantly downgraded the model. I didn't follow the details, but IIUC Dragon used the 175B directly initially, then I think they went down a model size at Open AI's behest. Finally, when Open AI announced pricing, AI Dungeon had to downgrade the model further.

But yes, the content filtering got out of hand too. I was initially fine with it, as its proposed intention was to filter out really illegal stuff, like underage content. I rarely hit the filter. But then they tweaked it at some point and I was triggering it constantly on otherwise benign stuff.

And they broke features constantly.

When I unsubbed the state of AID was broken features, micro-transactions, terrible AI model, and a glitchy, puritanical content filter.

The plus side is that it made the puny GPT-Neo model look like a godsend.
Germany bans Russian broadcaster RT’s German-language channel
The cruise control does not even work in these cars.
The problem is not really that microsoft owns github, or that licenses allow corporations free use, but that the tech giants are so big and have so much power.
I confirm that we're following closely what Xavier is doing for Rust, and even copied his work on "prophecy variables" to take the effects of borrowing into account in loop invariants in SPARK!

Your plans for having Rust analyzers collaborate look very cool! Like you said, the first challenge is to agree on a base specification language. I hope this gets discussed at the next Rust Verification Workshop.
This. George Lucas and Steve Jobs really screwed over the VFX industry in the late 90s. God damn conspiring tech trolls.
A common and worthwhile counterpoint to that is that people only notice bad or rushed CGI. Properly good CGI is never criticized because nobody can tell its CGI. The digital artists have the same problem as IT staff. People only notice you when something goes wrong. When everything is going right, you might as well not exist.

A timely example is Disney's Book of Boba Fett. The show is almost entirely CGI except for the actors. There have been some criticisms about particular assets like the biker gang's speeder bikes. But I've yet to hear anyone complain about the environments looking fake. Mos Espa is almost 100% CGI and it looks like a real set.

When it works your brain just accepts it. CGI is incredibly good at environments. I'd go as far to say that it has been indistinguishable from reality for the better part of a decade now. Where its gets noticed is in places where it doesn't do so well or when there were time or budget limitations. Fully CGI humans are still not believable and will probably be the last thing to get right. CGI non-human creatures have varying success. Compositing can still be difficult. Often its better to replace an actors entire body, save for the face, and create a CGI version in a fully CGI environment. Compositing a real person in a CGI scene is prone to floating body syndrome and lighting issues.

The real answer isn't necessarily that one is better than the other. But these are tools which should be used together to make a better product. And I think you'll find that modern films with the best overall effects do blend the two. Mad Max Fury Road is a good example, the vehicles are real with real stuntmen climbing on them but the environment is artificial. Shooting a film in the middle of a desert with nothing in sight is not practical. But shooting the scene on a sandy path and compositing in the CGI desert is.
I know it's impolite to ask people to read the article. We should discuss only the title and leave articles alone.

But the article actually answers your questions so maybe we can make exception this time.
I like GCP quite a bit, and I've architected on it both in the "giant global company" and "small startup" spaces, but it's just not well-positioned competitively. AWS has first-mover advantage and massive lock-in, while Azure has a comfortable second place position with companies that are deeply ensconced in the MSFT and .NET ecosystems and took longer to build a cloud strategy. Meanwhile, GCP was well below feature parity for a long time, didn't really have an enterprise strategy that would allow it to take on its competitors, and never successfully positioned themselves as the startup cloud of choice despite that being their focus.

Today, GCP's still better-positioned for small companies who need to move fast and are more price-sensitive, but they've done a good job catching up on the enterprise space, and having late-mover advantage has helped them avoid some of the footguns you see in AWS. There are still a lot of sharp corner cases in their services and documentation, and they're as bad as anyone else in Google when it comes to taking customer direction (it really helps to have direct contacts in the organization or be a large-scale implementation partner), but they're a perfectly valid cloud option with a lot of great services at relatively aggressive price points (and, arguably, if you're working in health or life sciences, they're actually a very good option compared to AWS or Azure thanks to their extensive healthcare API portfolio). Unfortunately for them, they're never going to be anything more than the fourth-largest global cloud provider, which isn't a bad place to be, but probably a bit humiliating for GOOG.
That is really one of the best examples there is for this particular topic.

Same director, same setting and lore, presumably a lot of the same people worked on both sets of films. And yet for many people the Hobbit trilogy falls flat. The CGI often seems at fault here; for me the immersion was lost in the larger battle scenes, where the LOTR trilogy rarely interrupted the suspension of disbelieve.
Love reading reviews about recruiters! I'm a recruiter and the CEO of HireScale. Many of the pain points described in this forum are ones I set-out to solve at HireScale.

Let me just start with agency vs. in-house recruiter types. In-house isn't always practical for employers so agency has traditionally been the fall back when flexibly is needed. Not anymore!

Freelance recruiters are the solution because they have authorization to represent the employers' brand and are being paid for the service they provide.

Agency recruiters are not authorized to represent brand (except retained) and only get paid if they make the placement so they don't disclose the brand until they've got their "fish on a hook".

My theory is the gig-economy can fix this while providing more value to the employer, recruiter and the candidate (transparency goes a long way). For any hiring managers reading out there, when a flexible option is needed, freelance recruiters offer a much better option.

I agree that it's a good practice to build relationships with recruiters. I also think it's important to do business with the companies where you agree with their practices, methods and principles.

Why support a bad practice so go ahead and ghost agencies.....Cyber and many others like them were built for hiring practices in the 70's or 80's (think kelly secretaries/ temporaries). Today's talent market is much more sophisticated.

Check-out the HireScale Recruiter Marketplace. Follow our community to interact with in-house and freelance recruiters only(branded to the employer 100% of the time)

Website: https://www.hirescale.io/
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My understanding there are some 'matte paintings' (cgi or paints) in the distance (to get that awesome horizon), there is some crazy color grading happening, (flattening the colorspace considerably i'm sure), and there are some cgi overlays happening (whenever you see spice in the air or any kind of duststorm). So yes those shots, even though they were shot in actual desert are doctored heavily and perhaps can be considered cgi on the whole.

That said the whole article reads as 'old art better than new art' 'old man yells at cloud'.
Congrats on the launch!

How do you prevent this from turning into another FB? Is there a difference between using this and using FB where you have all of your posts / activity only viewable with your friends? I guess one obvious difference is FB's advertising and data mining. Are there any features that you absolutely will not add to Circles in the future because they will 'cross the line' into turning Circles into a FB clone?
The lambda calculus "in its purest form" is not typed.
I am worried the bill is too narrow in scope. "Help the farmers" is a great rallying call to gain broad bipartisan support for the right to repair movement. I think that if we pass a bill that only helps the farmers, the rest of the movement will slowly wither away.
I would be curious to know if they were sufficiently able to remove confounding variables to make this claim. For comparison to another statistical quirk: someone I know made this chart which fails to show any correlation between vaccination rates and death rates in the last 14 days on a state-by-state basis in the US: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x9sKFsr-3VpdjvjZqHql...

Now, we have evidence from other sources that the vaccine is definitely highly effective in every particular state (this should not require a citation, but here you go anyways: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...). But it seems there are too many confounding variables here (age, population density, etc.) such that attempting a simple region-by-region comparison over any particular time period might incorrectly conclude that the vaccine does not work.

Was JHU able to address that data collection and comparison problem here?
As I understand it, the Magnussen-Moss Warranty Act protects this interpretation. You can't arbitrarily void a warranty by setting conditions on it like "must not remove this sticker". Though, of course, manufacturers will still try to scare people into believing that their warranty is far more fragile than it legally is.
That's even more: it can be done in parallel, through the entire production, as interaction of the actual physical prop on the set is not a memory barrier for the rest of production.
> I felt this coming out of the latest Star Wars movies: the space battle scenes felt so... flat, despite being technically amazing. There's something to be said for actually shooting on location and using physical props.

Calling Elon Musk, you know what you have to do.
Gotcha, thanks for the heads up. You mean, short time between install and uninstall?
We'll need to balance that with the need to keep the lights on. People seem generally OK with signing-up to post a question or tip but to read a free guide, there is resistance. Hey, that's why posting the HN is so great!
Thanks for your feedback.
It sounds like both your work and hobby involve pretty intense coding. If you are coding for 16-18 hours a day, that doesn't leave enough time for sleep, exercise, and socializing. I've found I need a regular amount of all three of those (and enough high-quality food) in order to have my mind working well for long periods of time. Even if you really love coding, these things ebb and flow, so it's okay for your job to just be a job instead of this all-consuming thing. You'll have to more aggressively prioritize which tasks you work on instead of trying to do everything, but that's an important part of maturing as a programmer and a leader. Maybe take some time doing work only in a fixed time period of the day and spend the rest of the time on some hobbies, ideally ones that are physical, outside, or with other people. (I understand that these are harder to find right now than they were a few years ago).

While having a more restorative life outside your job will help, I also agree that a therapist is a good idea to help with your anxiety and to help while navigating the transition from coding being your entire life to it being part of your life (at least for now).
Smart ways to amp up your productivity
> What's wrong with debating ideas with a 50/50 weighting of left/right topics for discussion

it’s not left/right issues. It’s non-quackery versus quackery. You’re actually asking What wrong with giving snake oil and consensus backed science equal time?
Encryption was considered a weapon previously, which resulted in an export ban.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_...
Initially maybe but the goal is to have protection for Israel's north and center from Iranian/Hezbollah missiles. Hamas isn't perceived as a major threat.
Matter is interesting. But...

> The project group was launched and introduced by Amazon, Apple, Google, Comcast and the Zigbee Alliance, now Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA).

I'm having a real hard time believing that anything user-beneficial will come of this, unless you're willing to sell out your smarthome and privacy to big tech.
i've had this stuck to my office wall for a while, and i've internalized most of it by now but it's still great

https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/991880504805871616
> a couple of concerns - Can it be recycled?

Right. We have enough issues with plastic waste, without it having extra-ordinary strength.
Implying that the hacking attributed to NK might have been a false flag?
That's why I am arguing that this law is good, but the default contract clause (which the OP comment is arguing against) is also good.
Repairs should not void warranties. In fact, those "warranty void if removed" stickers you see on a lot of devices are flat out illegal. It's just not widely enforced.

The manufacturer should have to prove that the customer opening the device is what caused the defect.
> He's saying that CGI, despite decades of progress, seem _fake_ in a way that subtly destroys our sense of immersion

Because he choses to use bad CGI in comparisons and completely ignores all the cases where CGI is invisible.

See Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24

"I think that CG looks bad is because we only see bad CG. Amazing, wonderfully executed CG is everywhere, we just don't know it"
IMO, CGI is no different than any other effects: the purpose is to enhance “suspension of belief” to advance some plot line.

For example, look at the original Star Trek. The effects were very unrealistic, everyone knew they filmed planet scenes in the desert (not on a different planet), etc. But nobody cared, it’s still a cult classic.

Star Trek TNG is pretty much the same. Despite more advanced effects, everyone knows Data is just a guy with makeup, but it was much harder to think the Enterprise was not a real ship.

At the end of the day, suspension of belief depends on delivery of lines, acting, etc, and much less on CGI or “classic” effects. CGI just makes (arguably) easier to achieve the effects.