skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I love advances in tech & art & visuals, I'm also getting pretty tired of live-action films that are basically computer generated. It has a certain look to it, too clean & precise & shiny, even as they industry overall gets better at matting things down.

I wanna see a larger counter-reaction to all the gloss, and have movies get a lil rougher around the edges, while having the stories & characters be way more refined. Draw attention to the medium's limits, rather than try to make it real, and then it becomes hyperreal/ uncanny.

But I'm guessing the industry will wanna go full immersion (like VR) rather than take a few steps back. Maybe there's room for both, if studios were willing to be more experimental (doubt it!).
Wondering what people here are using 3D printers for these days.

Every time I try to find an excuse to buy one I mainly see gadget usages with limited real world necessity.

Any cool use cases for core life necessities?
The idea that human life has fundamental value is not necessarily Christian at all (if anything apparently according to modern American Christianity only embryo lives seem to matter). This comes from someone who grew up in a country where Christianity is not the major religion. You don’t need a weird religion to tell people deserve the dignity to live no matter what the perceived quality of life is. The problem here isn’t that they’re given the choice to end it but looks like they’re being coerced into it.
I see so many similarities with the freelance web/mobile developer space. And having run a small dev shop (3-6 people) for 7 years I agree that the _only_ way forward is to hold your nerve, fire the shitty clients and only ever do work you can feel proud of. Yes, there will be tens of thousands of people on (the VFX equivalent of) upwork who charge 1/3 your price, and clients will put immense pressure on you because of it. But if you’re know for honesty and quality, the work will come.
We built this presentation extension of our open-source charting tool ipyvizzu (https://github.com/vizzuhq/ipyvizzu) because we learnt from the interviews and feedback from data scientists that they struggle with presenting and sharing the results of their analysis with less tech savvy people.

Here's a live example: https://vizzuhq.github.io/ipyvizzu-story/examples/demo/ipyvi...

What do you think?
The West is just doing it in slower motion due to having more knobs to pull to let steam out of the reactor — so to speak.
> why didnt the roads collapse into a state of disrepair which no one was willing to pay for?

Who says they aren't?

> As small towns across the country confront rapidly deteriorating roads and shrinking maintenance budgets, more and more of them are opting for gravel roads over pavement.

* https://blog.midwestind.com/counties-municipalities-gravel-r...

Or it could be road maintenance is being paid for by money taken from other programs.
The (modern?) association of "professional" and "quality" (aka "higher standard" as you describe it) has to do with this simple question: Are you willing to part with your money for something?

Being a professional implies that you will deliver a minimum standard of quality and consistency to your customers, because you as a professional are demanding money for your work. Amateur work by comparison can be all over the place, ranging from the mindblowing to the putrid, with no guarantees.

The flipside of this is that the only qualification to be a professional is whether you make money with your work. No matter how skilled or knowledgable you are, you aren't a professional if you can't successfully demand or aren't demanding money for your work.
>Power comes from the people

Right, but that was my point. Its a step closer to people coming together to accomplish or fund some goal instead of just some rich guy saying "I have money, I'm paying you all to so this now"
3D has been garbage since it's inception in cinema though: the guy who pushed it on us (James Cameron) couldn't even constrain himself to the rules of the new tech in the movie which was meant to showcase it (I.e focus pulling will hurt the eyes of the viewer, you have to essentially construct the whole scene in focus so the viewer can look around it).

No one else has really cared about it since then.
You are spreading misinformation.

You believe that politicians and political systems are there to help people, whereas I say they are about controlling and disempowering individuals. You believe science is impervious to politicisation. Misinformation!

> So there is no scientific doubt about that if you jump from the roof of a reasonably high house, you will get injured or die.

That is a ridiculous example - this is plainly verifiable. But where is your equivalent verifiable example re climate change?

> The science behind the climate change caused by humans is known for way over 100 years.

In the 70s the concern was re global cooling or mini-ice age. Then it was global warming. Now it is the vanilla term 'climate change' which can mean anything. I wish the science would make up its mind and stop flip-flopping! My point though is that science is only bent to serve a governance agenda of control - hence all the narrative switches.

Re the issues of science, let's put aside the reproducibility crisis in science (where papers cannot be reproduced in most cases, even by the authors themselves), and talk just about funding.

Do you think it is possible to skew the results if you only pay for whatever is in your interests?

Eg, if you are a pharmaceutical company would you pay for a study that could be supportive of fasting as a solution to disease, even if that meant your cancer/diabetes/etc drugs took a hit? Or do you pay for a study that supports further use of a drug?

Wrt to climate change, if you pay for lots of studies, some will be in support of some part of your thesis, some neutral, some against. You do not need to promote those against, you can simply pay for more studies in the areas that support the thesis you prefer. You will soon have libraries of data that support whatever you want. But does that data help us establish the truth so we can make informed decisions?

The answer is no.

Until you realise how our institutions are captured and put to use to serve a governance agenda, there is no meaningful discussion to be had about the data those captured institutions provide us.

With your point about oil industry etc, you will probably find individual scientists do make that point about co2 (though you will have to search them out, as it's this is not information that can be allowed in the media). What I think you are missing is that whoever is running the show doesn't just own the oil industry. They see in global warming both a new huge market and an opportunity to take greater control. You should check out Al Gore's financial investments. If you think your cycling everywhere will make any difference to the damage those corporations and governments do, you are dreaming.

The danger is that your (provided) dream will disempower everyone - you will be cheering our demise of our freedoms, because you don't believe your lying eyes but do believe what you are told at school, on a screen and by paid for science studies.
ZFS was never any prettier on BSD either, so wouldn't blame Linux in that.

But yes, bcachefs is somewhat interesting. Or maybe btrfs manages to clean up their act one day.
another day, another javascript runtime environment
What a nice solar system you have over there. It never stops.
Either or: the tech flourishes with this use.
"you absorb languages for free as a child"... This is the reason thou.

You call it a win win, government calls it "foreign influence"....
How would they hold bitcoin to begin with if they need to pay for local services? How would they get paid in bitcoin, or do they need to convert their funds to bitcoin ahead of time? In such a case they could’ve easily picked USD instead.
How is "Meatless Meat" directly opposed but "meat alternative" is not?
to be fair, Henry Cavill looked even weirder with his CGI-removed "shaved" face as well.

they should have made a movie about the behind the scenes debate on this matter. execs, the star, the VFX team, and the final reception. coulda been really hilarious, entertaining, and use the situation to their advantage.
You must have missed all of the Argentinian bitcoin stories, huh
Funny how context changes everything.
Aren't you supposed to avoid highly processed foods?
emacs is the easiest but you can try lispworks personal edition or allegro common lisp (they have a web ide IIRC)

there’s portacle which combines emacs with a lisp environment
It is, that’s the problem with microplastics. They just last and they “decompose” into smaller and smaller plastics. That’s how we got here.
> Worse, I've seen fight scenes with no/little jiggle, but then every move, punch, dodge, car stunt is replaced with a fast cut, so you don't actually see... well, anything.

Jackie Chan's non-American work is the antithesis of this. Here's a great Every Frame a Painting on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Or Venezuelan.
Even if you have to download 400GB data (not really) is better than taking hostages in a bank.
I am also anti-car, but it's a better sales pitch to suggest that in dense urban areas, removing pollution, reducing carbon and avoiding congestion can be done hand in hand with the shift to EVs than set them as opposites.

The extra leverage that urban traffic has to prioritise zero local emissions, lightweighting for pedestrian safety, vehicle redesign for visibility, silent operation, small vehicles for avoiding congestion (e.g. cycle couriers) is a lever to get general road transport and rural trucks to low emissions faster. It also lets more people into the cities (which is happening anyway but ICE vehicles are slowing it down)
I wonder where something like DALL-E fits into the digital touch up pipeline in the near future.

Taking existing footage and in words accepting instructions like "remove the facial hair on X"
I am also using checksums to detect bit-rot, but in order to tie them to the files they are stored in extended attributes of the files. Thus they do not depend on the inode numbers.

OpenBSD also supports extended file attributes, so using them should be possible.

Using extended attributes on Linux or FreeBSD requires a few precautions, because there are still various copying/movement/archiving CLI commands or GUI applications that ignore the extended attributes and also some file systems that do not implement extended attributes, e.g. tmpfs on Linux (which supports only certain kinds of system extended attributes, not those defined by the users) or all not extremely new versions of NFS (only NFSv4 in Linux 5.9 or newer supports xattr, unlike samba, which has supported them for decades, mapping them correctly between different file systems, e.g. XFS on Linux to UFS on FreeBSD), so copying a file via those file systems would lose silently the extended attributes of the files.

The extended file attributes have been introduced in 1989, in HPFS for OS/2 version 1.2, and they have been brought to UNIX in XFS, in 1993.

30 years later, it is annoying to see that there are still some programs which pretend to make file copies or file archives, but which can lose the extended file attributes, without any warnings or errors.
Achilles' flaw is that he is driven entirely by Thumos, far beyond what is appropriate. The fact that he spends a dozen chapters sulking over the insult of Agamemnon taking away Briseis costs him Patroclus, which is a far greater loss.

The obvious foil is Odysseus, who is calculating to a fault, and even attempts to pull the wool over the eyes of Athena herself.

Often tragic flaws aren't necessarily bad characteristics, it's just that they are exaggerated to a point where they become bad.
Interesting. But updating one character should be much faster than updating the whole screen then surely since you don't have to send so much data?

By the way I suspect compressing multiple pixels into one is unnecessary - just quantise them and let the compression deal with it.

Also zlib is not designed for image compression. I'm sure there is something more suitable, e.g. QOI.

In fact, given that you're mostly compressing mono text I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of dynamic sprite atlas kind of system was better, like in JBIG2.

Anyway if it is network latency that seems like good news because you should be able to get it to near 0. What is the ping to the reader?
People arguing for restricting others' freedoms while enjoying them themselves is what I see.

Good old genocide is the ultimate conclusion to that and undeniably the most effective option.
hmm, yeah via DAGM would be good a solution I guess, don't think it's editable anymore though
Sure, but that doesn't really play into the equation when comparing the pure efficiency of different transportation methods. Of course in practice since it's good to exercise at least 30min daily, you can think of the energy spent during that as free from a efficiency standpoint
I am absolutely of this school of thought.

So many forms of art don't need to be hi-fi, latest & greatest, "realistic," or only conform to the "acceptable" trends of the times.

I think even as a kid, some videogame cut scenes in 2D pixel art got me so hyped/ engaged/ moved.

Same goes for comic books, that were nothing more than black and white line art (granted the line art was executed superbly – what up Akira Toriyama & Bill Watterson!).

One can hope that studios would be more willing to try new things, but they don't even pretend it's about anything other than the bottom line.
I believe they think about persons such as Tycho Brahe, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, street-named Lord Kelvin, or even John von Neumann, whose father, Neumann Miksa, received the "von" from emperor Franz Joseph.

There is a difference between being given an island by the king to build your own astronomical observatory in the 1600s [1] and knowing that you don't have to worry about food and shelter for the next few years because of your well-placed long-term investments. In this sense, the very few amateurs left today are the billionaires funding their own space agencies and whatever else they fancy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#:~:text=King%20Fre...
Worst employer ever
This is extremely popular in the UK - all of the major supermarkets offer it.

Some of them also let you use your own smartphone to do the scanning.

It became more popular in the pandemic, as only interacting with your own device reduces the amount of contact you have with other people and things they have been touching.
The abstract and introduction read like this is the "assume a spherical cow on a frictionless plane" level of theorising.

A better use of time might be reading a chapter or two of Bowles's Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution[1], which at least tries to engage with the real world.

Edit: Or learning about Hotelling's Rule[2], given recent rises in the price of fossil fuel.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Microeconomics-Institutions-Evolution...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling's_rule
I’m genuinely surprised no one has mentioned Programming Perl by Larry Wall et al. (AKA The Camel Book)!

It’s such a fun and quirky book on so many levels and I really believe it was a major factor in setting the tone of the entire Perl community.
Emacs would be a fine choice, but is not mandatory, if you can live with less support for parens found in other editors. Emacs traditionally excels at working with lispy languages and REPLs.

I started working through the book, but did not feel like using Common Lisp. Instead I used GNU Guile. I am not very far in the book yet, but so far I was able to translate between Common Lisp and Scheme easily.

So for me the way to set things up was to install GNU Guile. I did that via GNU Guix package manager. However, GNU Guix can also install SBCL, so that you could use Common Lisp as the book does. SBCL is also in many distros' repositories.
Honestly, the climate deniers have got their wish. What's with this dogmatic bullshit? Do I have to dance to your tune if I do not want to be called a heretic?

I care about climate change and I will continue eating meat. My carbon footprint is probably still lower than yours.
If you grow up with movies being fully dubbed in your native language you don’t question it much. Usually the same voice actor voices the same actor(s), so Brad Pitt has the same voice actor voice in all movies.

Dubbing movies becomes a problem when you are exposed to the actors’ original voice or the original audio track of movies because dubbing is a poor substitute. And hearing the same voice for different actors breaks immersion.
Thanks for the exercise!
What happens at Sun Valley, the secret gathering of unelected billionaire kings?
> Sounds like “hollywood” is finally fully corporate, devoid of any soul it once had.

Perhaps, but then again people have been saying that about Hollywood since at least the 1930's. Hollywood has always been an industry aimed at making money thorough entertaining people. Sometimes this has resulted in great art being created, and Hollywood is not averse to art as long as it makes money.
as far as I'm aware Bun is significantly faster than others while maintaining a lot of the compatibility
I love octoprint, it makes the whole printing experience so much nicer. The integration with Home Assistant is great and allows for automations like turning the printer off after finishing a job.

On the other hand, I don’t think “snappy” is the adjective that best describes octoprint
The reason why POSIX time ignores leap seconds was that it was considered simpler for userspace if you can do things like `time() % 86400` to get the time of day etc without needing to worry about leap seconds, essentially allowing userspace to be ignorant of leap seconds.
For art, no. But open source software does have the other side, so some inputs can be valuable and sometimes inspiring. I would compare it to industrial design.
Building Arc
Specs of Russian produced Bitblaze Titan laptop
Too bad screen sharing quality is somehow way worse with huddles.
> how miserable people were before the modern era

Materially, maybe , but judging by the way people live in rural communities even today, it's closer to the truth that they were happier overall, as they had a social support net, more socializing than they can handle and more time in nature. It's a qualitatively different life than urbanized domestication
Instead of using "this auto&&" trick to get recursive lambdas, I wonder why they didn't go with named lambdas (Clojure made it really nice). E.g.

auto factorial23 = [] fact_recur (int n) {
if (n <= 1)
return 1;
return n * fact_recur(n - 1);
};

Maybe this has to do with the usual C++ complicated parsing rules... But, on the other hand, named lambdas, besides recursion, in the language mentioned above helps with stacktraces, so you get the idea where the issue could be, instead of getting an anonymous mangled name mess.
Just perfect, don't change a thing about the steering! <3 Very rewarding!

Add some cool retro music and wait for Ludwig yelling at the game on stream ;)
Your frontend needs a database (Nikita Prokopov) [video]
banning plastic is moronic. they didn't come about because people wanted to pollute the world, it solved real issues while creating unpleasant externalities and this is a great research to mitigate the pollution.

name me a country that didn't increase in plastic usage AFTER banning plastic
Ok then, what about a bike on the rails? Kind of like a jigger, but pedal powered.
Author here. A big thank you to you all for your interest in muxfs! I will try to answer all of your questions as best I can.
in weeks with more spontaneous requests I use https://calendly.com/ and put a link in my profile to announce daily meeting slots
Yes, I've started using illegal, what many consider "heavy" drugs just this year and it is changing the absolute trainwreck of a life I've had.

I only regret putting it off for so long because y'know, drugs are bad mmmkay.

I'll say that managing addiction is pretty hard, I seem to be able to do it even after falling into binges a couple of times (which is really dangerous).

I cannot stress enough that you need to have personal responsibility and really understand it.

But, when your only other option seems to be suicide (which I failed at, too), why not.
Do you have a source that talks about Soviets avoiding centralization/specialization?
Nice article.

Was listening to this chat [0] recently. Jarred Sumner is doing really cool things with this! Excited to see where it goes.

[0] - https://youtu.be/rL4qpniIR7o
In most countries 90-120 V DC (!) is still considered safe to touch, so you could even electrify the whole body with the 20 V from the charger. And you can't really "feel" 20 V DC even when touching it. is I'd wager what causes the shocking is not the voltage from the charger but static electricity buildup, due to the missing groundplane connection in the chassis. The voltages for such a buildup can be much higher (many kV) but the amount of charge is tiny. You nerves can feel it but it won't harm you due to the small amount of charge transferred [1]. How this charge gets there is another matter, there are many high-frequency components in a laptop that can induce charges in the chassis though.

So definitely not a safety hazard, more an annoyance.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_discharge
I know the first part of your statement is half a joke but I want to address it anyways.

The issue at hand is that human beings can’t multitask so any distraction from the main task leads to poorer performance.

The sudden entrance of a beauty, loud noises (open offices), bright lights, stress can all be forms of distraction and minimizing those can be as useful in the long term for performance as minimizing more overt distractions.

Your brain can ignore all of the above to a certain extent if it’s chronic. Which is why beauty becomes banal, open offices tolerable, and stress simply something to be banked away until vacation or burnout.
A robust, indefinitely scalable, computing architecture
> Pornhub allows anyone to embed their videos on 3rd-party websites. They offer a full dump of the video database that you can download from here

> The database is fairly large, close to 4M videos. It’s impossible to load such a large number of items into Excel. So you need a SQL database, ideally, a very fast SQL database.

Seriously, only 4M rows? That's tiny. We were dealing with that using DB2 in SMEs in the 1980s. With proper indexing, Postgresql on a 386 wouldn't have any difficulty. You don't need any niche nonstandard tool.
Reactive updates is the big one, in my opinion. DataScript is a triumph and arguably is the reason why so many note-taking tools (Roam, Athens, Logseq, etc) are written in Clojure. But there are so many cases where it would be nice to react when some set of entities is changed.

I think what we need is to figure out how to combine DataScript with a rules engine. I wrote a rules engine and made a writeup that compares the two together: "Using O'Doyle Rules as a poor man's DataScript" https://github.com/oakes/odoyle-rules/blob/master/bench-src/...

Subscribing to individual entities is nice but with a rules engine you have so much more fine-grained control over your reactions. And with the RETE algorithm this can be done efficiently. Most libraries in this space just ignore it and make their own ad-hoc solution -- an informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a rules engine.
Lisp-Stat: An Environment for Statistical Computing
We could use glass bottles but decided to switch to plastic ones.

One has obvious ecological advantages over the other.
You’re right of course, can’t edit it anymore.
That was, rather obviously, the joke.
do we actually get many Javascript runtimes? Certainly fewer than JS frameworks.