skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the best VFX work is what you don't even notice.

Sound is the same. Producers and directors want to keep their options open as long as possible and then everyone wants to touch the final product so they feel they really earned their credit Being a technician is pretty exhausting and unglamorous, plus if you're too good at what you do it becomes a prison because you're a known quantity and nobody wants to take a risk on giving you upward mobility, but you don't necessarily get paid enough to have any economic autonomy.

Now I work in an adjacent area where I have editorial/creative control, which is great, but also a lot more fraught financially (much like any other startup). I do get annoyed when I hear people criticize the media/entertainment industry; there's a lot of celebs and jerks that deserve criticism, but people outside it mostly assume everyone's on easy street and have no appreciation of the workloads and craft involved.
I replied to most things here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32443447

In git it's a hiccup if upstream does it. But it does work. For buttcoin you get the DAO split.
Yeah, would basically require demolishing most cities and rebuilding them around the train lines. Moving non-physical jobs to home has more potential.
I upgraded to klipper a long time ago over marlin, and whilst its great and improves print quality (especially on slow 8 bit boards).

It is not _better_ than marlin. Its very user hostile and generally the support between upgrades is very poor. Any error and Klipper will abort your print, when in most cases it absolutely does not need to.

Basically its great for fast printing but you are nuts if you think the everyday 3d printer should run it in its current state.
https://aptera.us/

.13 but I really need to drive around fewer behemoths to feel safe in it. Maybe a 4 wheel will make up for it?
None of what this article talks about is new, except perhaps for the WFH bit.

The "we'll fix it in post" attitude in particular has been around for as long as computers have been used in VFX.
We have an easier time keeping folks alive on the ISS than on the ocean floor. The pressure differential between vacuum and human-friendly conditions is one atmosphere. In the water, every ten meters down is another atmosphere of pressure. Leaks on a submarine become quickly catastrophic; small leaks in space can be fixed over months. (https://www.space.com/cosmonauts-seal-space-station-air-leak...)
That reminds me of this blog [1] which is a BASIC! No, it's a Haskell too [2]!

[1] https://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-an...

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/BASIC
Ok. On the other hand, a complete migration to EVs won't solve the climate crisis either, as they are not energy efficient enough. Combine this with the fact that car-oriented developments are energy-inefficient in other ways - single family homes are way worse with regards to energy efficiency, lack of walkability makes car travel mandatory, larger infrastructure requirements are again worse woth regards to energy efficiency, and so on.

Does this mean we should throw our hands up and not make an EVs? No, that would be a bad strategy, a complete non-option. We must halt the climate crisis, this is quite frankly mandatory.

So, how do we tackle this issue? If we want to deal with the problem in a timely manner, we have to work within the framework we already have today. This means some degree of replacing ICEs with EVs. Crucially though, we need to realize that the framework itself is bad, and requires replacement in the future. This means halting investments in non-sustainable built environments, building energy-efficient transportation infrastructure to connect existing places where it makes sense, and only building new places with appropriate transportation infrastructure.

Defeatism is not on the roadmap.
I love OctoPrint, one of my favourite open source projects.
> I frequently still buy things over the VPN and stay logged in with accounts attached to me.

They are talking about *registration*, how often do you register new accounts?

I also believe all registration forms should outright ban non-ISP IPs.
Flawed characters are simpler more interesting to read about than people who aren't flawed. Stories of the lives of saints tend to be didactic and boring; those of flawed sinners are much more interesting and varied. See also the Mary/Marty Sue problem.

Put another way: many people read Dante's Inferno, few are interested in the Paradiso.
> Essentially, UTC is a compromise devised to satisfy the needs of two communities of users:* Astronomers and navigators, * Physicists and engineers

I think author is wrong about astronomers, for whom UTC is an unwanted complication. Astronomers use sidereal time, which is unrelated to ther apparent motion of the sun. For short intervals, physicists and engineers may as well use atomic time.

The WP article on UTC has a section titled "Rationale", but doesn't explain what problems/compromises UTC was supposed to address. It's worthy of note, however, that of the three bodies involved in the first version of UTC, two were national naval observatories.
I understand the sentiment. This has already happened in Argentina in 2000 (the infamous "corralito"). Many people lost the savings of their lives. After this a big distrust against banks was installed and people decided to put their money not in bank accounts but in bank safe boxes, which in theory can't be touched. At the time I was a teenager in school but after that experience I've learnt not leave a single dollar in Argentinian banks. There seems to be literally no difference to what's happening there than what happened to us 22 years ago.

Edit: Some corrections and modifications.
DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments
i can't find "zfs" mentioned once in this guy's doc so my first question is... why not?
It's probably also everything that is accidentally overlooked during the shoot. Previously you would hat a different take, perhaps, or live with the goof. Now you can just offload that to post-production.

But probably also a question if how expensive filming days are with the whole crew vs. how expensive VFX artists are. The latter work is also highly parallelizable.
Just like art. At least that's what I feel when developing https://glicol.org

I didn't have to develop a new computer music for a musicology phd and my scholarship was just for a humanity thesis, but I just wanted to do it.
Agree, but probably inappropriate to expect EVs to end that weapons race alone. Perfect not being the enemy of the good and all that.
> Industry typing metalanguages are not expressive enough to deal with even fairly basic real-world programs and force you to write bad code to work around the type checker's stupidity.

I honestly don't see that. Could you provide some examples?
It's a lovely article and great technology. I am just not so on board with testing the implementation details of such a component. Visual testing always feels off when done with these kinds of testing frameworks (jest, and vitest). As in do you really want to test that a class name is applied to assert that the component rendered with a certain style or visual look? If I change the CSS of the class name to a totally different background colour, then this test
will still pass yet the component is broken because it has the wrong style.

Although then I have to answer the question, what is the best way to test for visual changes? Then it would have to be visual snapshots where you save the current state of the test as a screenshot and then assert it matches the previous run.
I believe Titanic has version 1.1 with better visual effects and correct star positions (lets call it a "change request" from Tyson)
Yeah, the more avoidable weight is the SUVs.
>That's because people suck at communication - especially programmers

It's everyone. Not 'especially' programmers. Everyone. Flip the tables and expect the other side to adapt to the context instead, and we'd be calling management terrible at communication. Software development seems fairly unique in expecting developers to bridge the gap instead of management, when such expectations are not put on several other fields. Regardless of the mental strain put on those professions.

Heck, it's stunning we have so many customer-facing type jobs in software development only to expect developers to adapt. The heck you getting paid for if you're not actually a mediator between two different contexts like, you know, almost every other field?
I feel this comment in my bones.

I went from loving Python to hating it with a seething rage.

Python package managers are all so bad that the only reasonable solution is Docker containers or vendoring everything (not easy). And even so, I've had untouched Docker builds still die because dependencies mysteriously get yanked or changed.

God, I hate Python so much now.
BTC FTW
Depending on how much effort you want to put in, I'd suggest whatever the highest resolution you can buy, and rip to a video file.

You'll want to use an uncompressed and unencrypted format. You might want multiple formats, in multiple places.

Likely one of these will be network attached storage with RAID, however it's been 10 years since I did anything like this so things may have moved on.

You may also want to think about ensuring you have players that can play the formats.

IIRC Blu-ray discs are expected to be OK for 15-30 years, however I don't know enough to say whether this is specific to certain manufacturers or usage.

From my limited knowledge, most content is still released on disc, however with the move towards streaming, I can foresee this may diminish over time. IIRC the Blu-ray market (both releases and players) is shrinking year-on-year.

I too have encountered an immense amount of frustration due to content rights being sold to a single provider, who is not one of the three or four we already subscribe to.
All true, but while listing all the reasons for being depressed, it curiously misses the state of the environment.

And by that I don't just mean climate change. The terrifying truth of our time is that we are destroying life on this planet at an unprecedented rate; all life: not just megafauna but insects as well as forests, etc., in exchange for... building parking lots.

We make the world lonelier and uglier and there is zero solution in sight.

Responses to climate change have not yet begun, we have not started to modify our behavior in any meaningful way. But much more importantly, climate change is but one problem, not the only problem. If climate change was solved today, it would maybe postpone the apocalypse for a little while, but it would not make us happier.

Switching to less CO2-emitting energy sources doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things; if we use an electric truck to build a parking lot in the middle of a forest, we may emit a little less CO2 while doing so, but eventually we will still have replaced a piece of forest by a slab of concrete, and in the process destroyed life and made the world uglier.

The "loss of meaning" results from the awareness that what we're doing is not just pointless but evil, and we have no alternative.
Yeah, the only reason the EV doesn't obviously win without any calculation is because of the battery loss. And turns out it still wins.
Wealth inequality is OK, it can go as high as needed because poor people live off work - they don't need any wealth. My concern was about income inequality...
Interesting note: the word amateur comes from the Latin Amat, to love. An amateur does what they do for their love - of music, art, programming or whatever, not for mundane reasons such as career, fame, or material compensation.
In Oslo where there is a significant number of EVs (30.64% of all cars) there is also a lot of charging stations on the sidewalks, you simply park your car, plug it in, and activate the charging with an app on your phone.

See https://chargemap.com/cities/oslo-NO

It's not that hard to build infrastructure to support EVs, since electricity already is everywhere in a city.
You can dig into the numbers on this helpful article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
This feels like a parody, you don't store wealth in your mind otherwise you could create it out of thin air you merely keep track of your personal share of the world's wealth.
My theory is that technology will get us there eventually (direct democracy), and we'll get closer to a better, more functional and more inclusive society than the modern representative democracies which are starting to show their massive shortcomings.

It was a stroke of genius to call what we have now in most of the world "democracy", as in "government by the people", when it's anything but that.
“[Disability] insurers combat this by auditing nearly all applications …”

“This has the effect of denying recompense for those who are truly disabled”

People who are disabled should be rejected for disability insurance for the same reason people who are dead should be rejected for life insurance: the insured event has already happened.

The time to apply for disability insurance is before you are disabled. Otherwise you will have some very heavy exclusions, or are in fact committing fraud.
From very early on, there were crossovers of classic scams and MLM, such as $$$MAKE.MONEY.FAST$$$ [0]. By the late 90's spam email of this sort was common enough that people wanted a filtering solution; at first keywords were enough, and later Bayesian filters. Eventually Gmail stepped up to the plate and hit a home run on automatic spam detection, which played a big role in positive early reviews.

The late 90's also saw the rise of retail electronic stock trading(where previously, one called up the broker and they handled the trade), which created a huge boom in pump group activities. Often the tactics were quite simplistic and just involved spamming forums with sockpuppeting. Though there were prosecutions years later, the learnings of these pump groups did persist in the penny markets, and ultimately carried over into crypto and created some foundational archetypes.

During the 2000's, scam activity shifted towards ecommerce, affiliate marketing, MMO item trading and the like. This was when "search engine optimization" first became a thing. And as you can see by looking at the current results of most Google searches, SEO has basically won. The open Internet outside the walls is overrun with noise.

So, while you can absolutely have gotten around back then without being personally affected, I believe it is also correct to say that it was always there, and in fact, has become a deeper problem over time. Blockchain tech is another useful vehicle, but it's one among many, and the open nature of the most popular ledgers makes for more eye-popping headlines.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast (I recall it with the excessive dollar signs, the article has it with periods. So I did both.)
Blame the tool, not the users
> a filesystem should automatically check and repair data as it is accessed rather than processing the entire filesystem tree upon every check or repair job.

Except this is not sufficient. Flash storage for example is especially susceptible to random bitrot of data over time regardless of whether or not it is ever accessed or even powered on. Ever tried to plug in an old USB stick or SD card only to find out it was totally busted or unreadable? Scanning the entire filesystem and re-checksumming everything is therefore completely necessary.
Looks like trains will beat out bicycles in some cases, but they lose out to e-bikes and e-scooters. Check the table in this helpful article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
> Why is this all happening?

It's happening because people use banks to store their wealth instead of doing self-custody.

Cyprus, Argentina, various east block countries in the 80's, etc... How much more proof do you need?

Storing your wealth in a Bank is a bad move, independently of the country you live in, and especially in 2022 where you earn exactly zero on interests in most places.

Lebanon is just an extreme example of why it's a bad move.
This is a classic tale of imbalanced trade resulting in a debt trap, the moment debts become unpayable, the government has no choice but to borrow money for interest payment, which mean interest starts fueling inflation and since more inflation means higher interest rates, the government will have to borrow more and more, leading to hyperinflation. If the government cut interest payments to zero, it would actually stop the hyper inflation assuming that the government pursues austerity and tight monetary policy afterwards. Any negative effects of austerity can then be countered by lowering the interest rate below zero.

What people don't seem to understand though is that it is easy for a developed country to refuse to import products from a developing country, which in turn makes this a structural problem in the global economy rather than a failing of any particular politician.
Sell this to cypress.
I read Carmack post in Hackernews before. He mentioned that he didn't perform deep work for 12 hours. Within that 12 hours, he will perform maintenance work as well
The gap is pointed in the wrong direction — it’s a funnel on the west side, but mostly open on the east. So you either need to get particulate matter (ie heavier than air) over a barrier taller than the Appalachians, or the wind from that point needs to be lowest energy source — a strong pressure gradient around that bends from northwest to due west. The first is unlikely because most conditions that cause Santa Ana winds come with a strong inversion layer. The second is less likely due to the synoptic situation — and honestly mesoscale too. The storm tracks driven by the jet stream rarely go far enough south for a strong high pressure to be sitting over Arizona or Sonora. Over Nevada or Utah, you get winds from the Great Basin — the wrong direction. But because Arizona is so hot, the rising air keeps pressure a little lower. Low pressure over the San Gabriels or further north will just pull air through all the canyons and passes — not a very long fetch.

It’s definitely a risk to Palm Springs and El Centro. LA is just a breeze too far.
The problem with the generator is it's more cost, weight, and maintenance. But it still makes sense in many scenarios, which is why many cars do something like this, like the BMW i3.

I wonder how reliable the portable diesel generators are. The huge ones in datacenters are known to have trouble starting up sometimes, so they're tested frequently.
Your Money Isn't Yours (2019)
Typically, in my situation self checkout is substantially faster than waiting for someone to do it for me.

I don’t see why I should stand in line when I could exert myself for 90 seconds and be out of the store 5-10 minutes quicker.
I think everyone learns to outgrow these events
I feel like we should be slightly more ambitious with ensuring the wellbeing of people than keeping around pointless jobs? At the least, if we're stuck on the government ensuring that there are jobs of some sort, it seems like jobs say more actively better the community (say library staff, community center staff, etc) would be much more fulfilling?
Cities were demolished to accommodate cars in the past, I see no reason why such a retrofit would be impossible in the other direction.

There is some potential in reduction by moving jobs to WFH when possible, but this is not mutually exclusive with migrating to energy efficient means of transportation and urban development. Hence, I don't think it's relevant in the discussion.
As someone in the VFX industry myself (but as a software dev writing the tools the artists use), I'd argue those examples are generally useful work being done on the movie to make things "more real". Whether it's worth it, is going to be very opinionated.

However, I would say: I re-watched GoldenEye recently, and - maybe it was because I'm in the industry and notice these things more - but the blatantly different stunt men (especially landing the Cessna in Cuba: the man looked totally different compared to the actor who should have been flying!) compared to the actors did make me personally go "hang on a moment, who's that?"

Some of this stuff can now also be automated to a degree (not completely, it still requires artist input, and sometimes a lot), but it's not often Rotoing every frame like it used to be ten years or so ago.

Things I'd personally argue aren't worth artists having to work on, but I know they do, are things like skin wrinkle removal on leading actresses, removing mustaches on actors, etc. And the biggest issue is clients changing their mind at the last minute, often having previously signed off on lookdev or anim at the earlier stages, or just generally having to deal with bad set preparation because the 'talent''s time on set is 1000x times more important than the unseen artists, who then have to do loads of work to compensate for badly lit (very un-evenly lit) greenscreens or lighting on set, because the on-set VFX supe was likely ignore when he complained ("Oh, they can just fix it in post").
From the page:

> I decided it was finally time to build a file server to centralize my files and guard them against bit-rot. Although I would have preferred to use OpenBSD due to its straightforward configuration and sane defaults, I was surprised to find that none of the typical NAS filesystems were supported.

OpenBSD does not support ZFS.
Nearly all IPv6 traffic is cell phones. And they are all behind NATs.
Self custody of precious metals is expensive.

Self Custody of digital currencies is tricky in different ways. What if you forget your 12 words seed phrase? Then your life savings are gone as well..

For background on Lebanon: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-should-be-the-sa...
Most sane government policy acknowledges this, even european right-wing governments:

Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
.pdf

> But we cannot, of course, simply rely on the electrification of road transport, or believe that zero emission cars and lorries will solve all our problems, particularly for meeting our medium-term carbon reduction targets to 2035. Road traffic, even on pre-pandemic trends, was predicted to grow by 22 percent from 2015 to 2035 much of it in cities, where new roadbuilding is physically difficult and disadvantages communities.

> We cannot pile ever more cars, delivery vans and taxis on to the same congested urban roads. That would be difficult for the roads, let alone the planet, to tolerate. As we build back better from the pandemic, it will be
essential to avoid a car-led recovery. As I said in “Decarbonising Transport: Setting the Challenge” in March last year, we must make public transport, cycling and walking the natural first choice for all who can take it. Many
journeys are short, could be done differently – and were done differently, in the very recent past. Even ten years ago, for instance, more children walked to school. We want to reduce urban road traffic overall. Improvements to public transport, walking and cycling, promoting ridesharing and higher car
occupancy, and the changes in commuting, shopping and business travel accelerated by the pandemic, also offer the opportunity for a reduction or at least a stabilisation, in traffic more widely. That will benefit everyone, drivers included.

So to me it feels like those who use this as an opportunity to undermine EVs, aren't really helping.