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Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without sacrificing quality
Hi HN,

My name is David Sokol, and I'm the founder of rentaflop (https://rentaflop.com). We're a crowdsourced render farm aimed at making Blender rendering fast and affordable.

If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.

If you're like me, then you're also disappointed with the alternative solutions: spending thousands of dollars on graphics cards or using prohibitively expensive cloud render farms to get fast render times. Our solution to this dilemma is to leverage low opportunity cost hardware from around the world to allow Blender artists to render their projects quickly, affordably, and without compromising on quality. Since most graphics card owners aren't utilizing their hardware to do valuable work 24/7, we provide them with a way to make money without lifting a finger, while lowering the cost curve for 3D rendering.

We're currently doing a private beta. If you'd like to get early access, check out our site (https://rentaflop.com) and join the waitlist. If you're a graphics card owner who wants to help Blender artists while earning money, reach out to support@rentaflop.com and we'll help you get set up.

Please leave a comment below, we'd love to hear your thoughts :)
This is one of the few good arguments against nuclear, especially large installations that produce a huge percentage of a region's power.

Even if you can design it in such a way that an external attack is very unlikely to cause a meltdown, it's a juicy and easy target for an adversary to cripple your electricity production. A few dozen well placed missiles might be all you need to take an entire nation that's heavily nuclear dependent to its knees.

On the other hand, solar and wind are hugely decentralized and distributed, making an attack that destroys these generators drastically more expensive. An adversary might still be able to take out the grid by targeting transmission infrastructure, but recovering from it should be relatively quick because the actual generators are all still intact.

But perhaps this flaw is alleviated by smaller scale reactors that produce a much smaller percentage of a region's electricity.
> "whatabout" the urine bottles as if the heavily unionized UPS drivers don't also do this.

Anecdotal I guess, but every time I see either an Amazon or UPS driver at my house they seem pretty relaxed. They pull into the drive, walk to the door with the package, and walk back to the truck. They don't seem rushed. Maybe they pee in a bottle in their truck but based on my observations that's probably just the easiest thing for them to do, at least for the males.

When I delivered pizza in the late 1980s I ran back and forth from my car to the customer's door. 30 seconds saved could mean being ahead of the next driver getting back to the store, where it was FIFO.
Sounds like biking distance, but you can't really read on a bike.
For me, dust collection on sanders was really nice but it really was how much less of a beating on my hands that the ETS dishes out. I went from a DeWalt to a Bosch, and the Bosch was somewhat better (and actually had excellent dust collection on its own when using a sanding mesh) but the Festool ETS125 is so much more comfortable. If I didn't have the money to upgrade the Bosch would be fine, but I do, and if I did this professionally I would absolutely find the money for my own health.
To make a meaningful difference you’d have to add so much salt that swimming just wouldn’t be fun anymore. Never mind the utter infeasibility of it all in the first place:

Add salt to lakes, kill every living thing in and around the lake, deal with an enormous amount of rotting bio matter, and probably poison drinking water for an entire ecosystem.

Add it to pools, deal with salt deposits everywhere that ruin all the pool equipment, and make the water so saline that you can’t dump it anywhere.
Is the only way to use it to write in Pascal? A pity, this looks awesome but I'll be limited to hacking on whatever is under the /demos directory.
Indeed. Maybe a new generation of aluminum wire could be better.

But for big feeder wires, it’s a different story. Compare:

2 AWG XHHW-2 Al: 0.358 inches OD, 0.081 lbs per ft, $0.90/ft

4 AWG XHHW-2 Cu: 0.33 inches OD, 0.129 lbs per ft, $1.78/ft

I know which one I would pick under most circumstances. And insurance companies are just fine with the aluminum option.
My mom drove a 2cv in LA - it got imported from Europa (not sure if it was from Denmark or France) as spare parts in order to get it ‘on the Road’ ;-)
This was ca. 1983.

She still have it but drives a ‘74 beetle daily.

I remember (when briefly living in LA) that we drove it from LA to Las Vegas in july (also in the mid 80’ies). It was HOT!

People always got shocked when the hood was piped open and showing of an engine that have the size of a lawn mower (relative to the typical V8)…
Every car I have ever owned (9 so far since 1975) went far beyond 100k miles, even my 1965 Mini van that I bought in 1975 for 65 GBP. But I agree that the newer cars were much more reliable.
This makes sense about the 800 voltage. I've bought COPX because of electric cars. Oddly enough copper has dropped due to recession speculation.
We’ll there is a good deal in some places.
That seems very good for a reasonably early attempt
yeah it makes it unreadable sorry.
I don't see how such a law even makes the phone/laptop itself safe to use, literally everything employs encryption now, it's built right in to the CPU and most websites you visit.

Would obfuscation be considered encryption?

And what about remote access? Is ssh or remote desktop considered off-limits? How could such usage even be policed when it's their own device with no tracking software installed?
My local newspaper publishes a puzzle called "The Challenger" (where you guess what numbers in a 4 x 4 grid will add up to the totals at the end of each row and column). It frustrated me because there's no one right answer -- you were just supposed to start guessing numbers until you stumbled onto a sequence that worked.

So I wrote a nice elegant program that crunched through every possibility (using 12 nested loops), eventually spitting out solution after solution after solution. The first time it produced a valid solution, I was thrilled -- and from then on I felt like I'd already somehow solved all the puzzles in advance.
Where are grid scale batteries doing that today?
What Happened to the Inventors?
We should do some of all of that, I agree in large part (along with some diversified storage), the issue as the parent comment pointed out is who is going to stake billions on what looks like it will be a risky and poor ROI with significant construction delays and cost overruns. Would be easier for China
can't bother to point out that y axis is flipped because that's how we read and the same hardware that was used for printing text was also used for graphics
Crypto is one thing, but what about his normal banking?
did you get the job?
Plutonium problem multiplies in top predators. Here already for thousands of years now thanks to nuclear plant disasters. Which are avoided by causing a slow power plant disaster by releasing radioactive pressure to the environment. Guy Debord's comment on this from Comments on the Society of the Spectacle: "much more civilized to sip a littl wine all of the time than to drink the whole bottle all at once like a Pole" :-)

Nuclear energy is a subsidised energy source, lobbied by powers that be on the corridors of power in the EU and everywhere else. Solar is cheaper.

Humanity is out of it's depth with this stuff. Could cause massive extinction event eventually even if we stopped now by killing and mutating sperm cells and all that. Go have a holiday in Fukushima. Go visit the deformed children still born in Uzbekistan near these places.
Yep. It's amazing the effort we have to spent to avoid disasters provoked by our own specie.
As a society we should not create our support creating through inaction an environment where people feel it’s necessary to sell their dignity. Would you agree?

Amazon is big enough that it can create systemic problems where free market doesn’t work. If everyone in a town is being run out of business, people feel they have no choice but to take up that job.
Maybe they just remember their country being bombed by EU and NATO and can see the same patterns in the current situation.
Installation is subsidized and you need to massively overbuild without storage or otherwise build storage.
Is JSX the prime driver of React's success? Even, ignoring the big corporate backing, I'm not sure this is the case.
Assuming we implement this
1. The amount of salt would pollute water resources for the next ~20 -30 years on average, regions that use Surface water would be the first to buy expensive water purifier tech.
2. People mostly drown in the swimming context because they overestimated their abilities. Swimming courses and lifeguards schould prevent that.
Look at the numbers though. Fossil fuels kill many people every year, while nuclear accidents are almost entirely hypothetical. The point of the article is to show that fears like the ones expressed above just aren’t supported by the data.
PEX-A (expansion PEX) almost all have a limited warranty period of 20-25 years depending on manufacture. It’s minimum reported lifespan is closer to 40-50 years with it estimated to be as high as 100 years depending on water quality, usage, other factors.
Chambre would normally be translated as bedroom.
It’s astounding how long companies can ignore this about their people. Acknowledging that kind of power in an employee probably messes up the power dynamic in uncomfortable ways.

I recently learned that one of the heads of SpaceX is heading his own company now. It’ll be interesting to see if his bus number was high enough that the wheels stay on, if the symptoms will be obvious if it wasn’t, or if they will be explained away by other phenomenon. I have had enough successful bosses that credited the wrong actions that it stands to reason that most failures are also blamed on the wrong chain of events. I know my own narratives in 5 Why’s situations are often in stark contrast to other theories.
The DDG one works okay but does not update in the page title like the Online Stopwatch one does, so it's a bit less convenient to quickly check how much time is left (or if it's expired and you didn't hear the sound) when the tab is somewhere in the background.

It does have a better UI and it's nice that it supports running multiple concurrent timers though.

Ideally it would support sending a browser push notification so you know the timer is done even if your volume happens to be on mute.

There's an iOS and macOS app called Due [1] that has all the bells and whistles if anyone else uses a lot of timers regularly.

[1]: https://www.dueapp.com/
There's also the story of the man who was driving a 2CV in the desert, hit a rock and ruined his front axle, and converted the remains in a two-wheeler to make it back to civilization alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMWgSgB4sg
i bet you're fun at parties
I think you meant to say you have no "internal identity"?

You have an external identity by virtue of other's witnessing you. They think something, whether or not you choose to recognize it or manage it or 'internalize it'.

And I'm not sure I'd buy that you have no internal identity unless you are completely in the present moment 100% of the time (which is un-human). Perhaps it's that you have a relationship with yourself that is quite settled - you accept all the parts of yourself and are largely unswayed by what other's think. That sounds like a zen place to be, but also unrealistic. I may go through periods where I'm fully myself without influence, but clearly I have a history which has made me.

And it's not all unwise to have an identity which is affected by what others project. Seems important to learn how to be part of a functioning society.

As for me, I wrote elsewhere in this thread about it feeling like a sacrifice I'm making for future me.
I don't know that all this hard work and reaching for career heights will matter in the end.. but I'm not more confident in a different strategy (else I would do that). So I justify my immediate misery for a chance to benefit the future.

We can of course pick apart and find fault in the emphasis being on the future, or why I this strategy.. but no path is without faults.
Can't wait untill they install obligatory mind readers in 8 years. What a joke of country has Australia gotten to?
> Alpha radiation is completely harmless and doesn’t even get through a sheet of paper

.. unless it gets inside you, in which case it can be extremely damaging.
Before Covid: cash was absolutely king in Germany. Plenty of restaurants, even in the most touristy parts of Nuremberg, did not take credit cards (maaaybe EC cards, but that’s a different system, and no tourist from outside Europe would have one). Loads of stores didn’t take credit cards.

Now: while cash is still normal, just about everywhere has contactless credit card terminals. I don’t even get a second glance when I ask to pay with a card at the bakery for a 3 EUR purchase. Some food trucks won’t take cash.

However, we did pay for our 17k EUR used car with cash last year, and that is still the recommended way for private used car sales.
Can't companies negotiate contract terms with unions that preserve the flexibility they desire while addressing the concerns the workers had?
Nuclear power has a paradox with respect to pollution: it's a highly dangerous form of pollution (heavy metals which are also radioactive), but in normal operation, it's completely contained (and nuclear power operators tend to be very paranoid about it; minor amounts of radiation which would be considered harmless everywhere else are treated as unacceptable outside the designated radioactive areas). So depending on how you look of it, it can either have a high amount of dangerous pollution, or none at all.

(There's another form of pollution from nuclear power plants, which is heat pollution from discharged cooling water, but most people aren't talking about that.)
Ok, so another pro-nuclear puff piece. Why do I say that? Because it talks about nuclear waste without ever mentioning the other kind: fuel processing waste.

Nuclear fuel needs to be enriched. Enriching is simply upping the percentage of U-235 (the rest is mostly U-238). Civilian reactors tend to have relatively low enrichment rates. So-called weapons grade is enriched to a very high percentage and requires different processes.

So U-235 and U-238 are chemically identical. So how do you enrich a sample? Centrifuges. You make a Uranium gas. The U-238 molecules will be heavier. Spin them in a centrifuge and you can extract them at a greater percentage and then pass on the gas to the next centrifuge. You do this repeatedly until you get the enrichment level you want and then extract the metal from the gas.

The gas of choice is UF6 (Uranium Hexaflouride). That itself is a toxic byproduct that needs to be stored or otherwise dealt with. We don't really have a good solution for this either. There is some reprocessing that basically turns UF6 into less toxic UF4 but it's not really economic.

As always, pro-nuclear propaganda focuses on deaths because deaths doesn't capture the negative impact of nuclear. Why? Because the Chernobyl disaster directly killed less than 100 (it also probably killed tens of thousands through cancers in the following years but that's harder to attribute and easier for people to collectively ignore).

But still the Chernobyl absolute exclusion zone, from one incident, is quite literally 1,000 square miles even now, almost 40 years later.

Deaths or deaths per TWh just doesn't capture that impact and those failure modes, which is precisely why such propaganda focuses on deaths.

But none of that is the big problem with commercial nuclear power. It's the fallibility of humans to manage, maintain, build and transport and store (fuel and waste) to a sufficient level to avoid disasters. The profit motive provides an incentive to skimp on some or all of these. Corruption is an issue with both corporations and governments.

Humans are just incredibly bad at managing long-term consequences, which is why we have the climate crisis to begin with.
I feel like you missed sarcasm/irony in the parent post.

When things like disproportionate distribution of SAT scores/Ivy League admits/STEM jobs among racial groups are discussed - some poeple have an immediate conclusions that there must be some "institutionalized racism, bigotry, etc" that cause big difference in outcomes, disproportionate to overall population distribution.

But I don't see this argument brought up here in discussing founders of startups.
I really want to believe nuclear is as clean as the author says, but the biggest challenge is storing the waste for three hundred years.

were talking small amounts, sure, but contamination of groundwater and surrounding soil isn't something we in the US have a stellar track record with. camp lejunes benzene contaminated drinking water happened in only a 29 year span, and the only real remedy is a class action lawsuit. no one admitted fault.

most of our reactors are elderly, and most of the regulatory capture means they leak like a sieve and rarely face any consequences or shutdowns. until we reform the edifice that controls this waste I fear nuclear will just be another headline crisis event.
Immigration reform is essential for the industrial and idea economy
Goodbye to https too.
You would need to distribute the returns from your puts to your shareholders, which would have the inverse effect.

Markets are always efficient ;)
My friends who are parents feel so guilty if they ever look at their phone while with kids. That message might have gotten through too strongly.
I can’t, I gotta check hackernews
And that's everyone but Amazon's fault, in this case.
Kid is 5.5. He gets money for doing chores and saves up to buy games and toys. We look at prices online, compare, figure out what he still needs to earn. If he’s short a few dollars I’ll loan him and then it’s dealing with negative numbers. Sometimes a job will have a “bonus multiplier” and then we have multiplication.
LOL. Nuclear energy is great they say... I can remember reading similar articles 30 years ago.
Personally, I think non-GC languages are very much overused. If you are writing business logic, and not counting cycles (even worse - if you are never planning to count cycles), you should probably not use C++ or Rust.

However, a GC is a lot slower than manual memory management, which contrasts with the fact that most compiler activities are actually pretty low in overhead (now - it didn't used to be this way). Really, the only cost overhead left is the abstraction mismatch, and that is not too bad, when you compare to how bad humans are at writing assembly.

That said, this case looks like one where the C++ experts spent very little time optimizing (mostly writing business logic), and probably made a very poor choice of tools.
China tries to buy a strategic Solomon Islands port
Were they CPVC pipes? PEX usually doesn't randomly burst unless it's installed incredibly improperly or there's a major manufacturing defect.
But there is much more efficient use of the car. Instead of a personal vehicle spending 99% of its time parked, a delivery van/truck spends 25% of its time making deliveries. They can be routed efficiently to deliver from a hub location to a group of homes.
The CLOUD act is not the only problem. FISA itself would also need to change.

There is essentially a level of control over its citizens that the US government would need to cede to ever become compliant, but that it certainly never would.
Ding ding ding, yes, TikTok surfaces better content because of the nature of its recommendation algo. One of Facebook’s top priorities is now following in their footsteps — moving away from social graph-driven recommendations to AI-driven recommendations. Just listen to their last earnings call.
May I ask what are your sources for that claim? Honest question.
"The Belcerebons of Kakrafoon Kappa were sentenced to telepathy by a
Galactic Tribunal because the rest of the galaxy found peaceful
contemplation contemptuous." - HHGTTG

I often think smartphones were inflicted upon Earth by our alien
neighbours to distract us and stop us ever getting off this rock.
If we’re listing externalities let’s at least be honest:

- Lost productivity or quality of life for rider.

If we suddenly double the amount of commute time someone experiences, how do you think that will impact their personal life? Their professional life?

Take it a step further and look at how the misery cascades: Imagine that person is a neurosurgeon and we doubled their morning commute so they now have to wake up an hour earlier. Will they be operating at their highest level?

I understand that the “anti-car” movement is probably well intentioned, but you know what they say about the road to hell…
I think the Right to Repair people want a world where that’s at least marginally true.
CPVC is brittle right off the factory line. Improper handling during transport and install are suspected to be the bulk of the issues down the road. Tiny micro-fractures occur when the pipe is dropped, struck, or even left to sit in the sun too long, which creates weak points and eventual failure. The only use I’ve seen for CPVC in modern installs is the discharge pipe for the TMP valve on water heaters. Can’t use regular PVC because it’s not rated for heated water.
hypocrisy*
> Minimum wage should be going up all the time to keep it inline with inflation. That's the point of minimum wage.

Except that if you adjusted the minimum wage in 2005 to account for inflation, you'll only get $7.93 today[1]. I doubt the people clamoring for a $20 minimum wage today are doing it on the basis of "keeping up with inflation".

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
Slow Streets (also called open streets), and really a half measure as it stands. To make them fully low-car, they need to be one-way for cars, alternating directions, so that there is no reason to be on the street if it's not your final destination. It would also be helpful if the intersections were genuine roundabouts.

I live in SF too, but calling our infrastructure "good" is really setting a low bar. We want about 10%-15% of the streets primarily serving bicycles, with pedestrians getting another 10% of roadways. That should be the goal.
I got a Swiss army knife when I was maybe ten. I never really used it for anything. I've done lots of outdoors things but I've never quite understood why people find knives so useful.
Tell that to anyone trying to decommission a reactor. France is having a great time.
I think this line of thinking has defaulted us onto a path of drastically increased carbon in the atmosphere, with no signs of stopping, which is at best going to drastically change the world and take centuries to remove, and at worst could trigger a massive biosphere collapse that drives our species to extinction.

The Earth has 150 MILLION km2 of land. We could literally have hundreds of reactors blow causing 1000 km2 unlivable patches of ground and still be perfectly fine.

Prioritize your fear.
Yes.

So we have to make decisions with those two factors in mind