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Ask HN: Dear reseachers/engineers/artists how to practice computer animation?
I am deeply interested in computer animation and simulation. I have basic knowledge of animation, simulation, and modeling. I want to dive deep into the field so that I can catch up with the latest research and trend. Since I want to scale up, I am not able to identify the right keywords to search for. I only find content that is either simple or complex. This clearly means I am lacking practice in the subject.

I would be very thankful if some of you can show me the directions to get started. As a general background: I have an understanding of skeletal animation, FK, IK, motion interpolation, and so on. But I am clueless about how these are implemented in real-time applications. I want to get into crowd simulation, realistic human (quadruped) motion generation, and environment/physics simulation.

Thank you in advance. Have a nice day!
And isn't that going to be a shitshow in 2024?
> The Rust is interesting, for sure, but I don't know what "?" is doing.

But it’s very easy to wrap one’s head around it. If the code under question mark returns an error, the function within which that code sits returns early with that error. If that function returns Result<T>, the question mark essentially provides short, composable code.

I never personally had a problem with Go error handling but having prior experience with scala where I often used Try(…).toEither, I love Rust’s ?.
Last I heard, the Apple Car project was going through the wringer trying to avoid getting cancelled / decommissioned.

This was a few years ago, though.
Is setting up a server by hand and following a checklist even the right frame for this question? I would imagine the orgs that are sophisticated about this have images, Puppet/Chef modules, etc. Might not even permit any manual tweaking.
Patreon laid off their security team
Shaving Compact Discs to improve the sound
I can't tell you that until you demonstrate that you know the secret handshake.
No, it means both should be legal and the behavior is what should be prosecuted, not the substance taken.
There was a paper a few years ago in the American Mathematical Monthly ( sorry... can't remember the author, I think it was a Russian mathematician ) that gave some interesting heuristics for why this form is natural to consider, where the 1/30 comes from ( and considerations of a couple of alternatives to the "30" ), and the kind of intuition/thinking that Ramanujan may have used. When you only see the final form of the equation like this, it looks very mysterious and impossible that someone could find it ( and to be fair, there are other results from Ramanujan that are definitely in that class! ). Probably a google search could find the paper, it was delightful to read.
That's a pretty good summary and a pretty good broad plan for dealing with it.
Likely 99% of the people here have zero personal relationship with her. Those that do, are preparing for her funeral, not posting here. It is a worthwhile question to ask why so many people have this feeling for a person they have never met. Now is when most of the eyes are on this issue. Saying it is "too soon" is just trying to delay criticism of the monarchy to when people have lost interest and have moved on to other news.
That’s true about many cpu registers, but compilers take care of it correctly for everything except floating point flags.
Was it though? What real consequence for anyone not named Windsor was there?

I've never heard of one.
That is the reference password, yes.
What is the secret password?
There's a massive difference between signing up for your dream job and being handed a responsibility with the right to abdicate it if you don't mind causing a constitutional crisis and still being stuck with the media obsessing over you.

Technically, I can take drastic action to negate things I received as an accident of birth if I don't mind getting flak for doing it, but it makes no sense at all to claim that on that basis my parents, physical appearance or manhood were all stuff I signed up for of my own free will.
Could be that they were hoping to get bought out and had made some actual improvements though no?

I would imagine that a plane using new advances in material sciences for the outer skin (maybe something like Quasi Crystals) might have significant advantages over an older design like the Concorde. Heat must be a big issue at those speeds.
> they might when everyone gives them a one-star rating and complains about the annoying demands for feedback

This is exactly what I do.
the world is a closed system. the illusion of independence is just a lie. Brexit marks the transition of the UK from arguably the most important state in the EU, to a 2nd and then 3rd world country. It is the suicide of a nation due to spite, ignorance, hate, greed, stupidity. Europe needs to be unified. the entire globe needs to be unified. small countries trying to go it alone will be wiped out or impoverished or both.
Refreshing to see "tech press" not mindlessly gawking at some hyped up new tech for a change.
Yes, I had the same question. I'd love to know what makes this different than other CRMs (Salesforce, front, hubspot, pipedrive).
Bad idea to use HTTP/3, HTTP/2 should be good enough
What does mounting /proc with hidepid option brings us?
I am aware of that and did not say otherwise. I can see how you might have read that into what I said (as if I had said "across all") but my intention was across the countries in the Commonwealth that do share a monarch with the UK.

Unless you're saying there are countries not in the Commonwealth that have her as the head of state which is news to me, but maybe i am mistaken.
Can we have the same for HN?
If there were more people who wanted to deliver papers for that price than there were delivery routes available, then you were indeed lucky if you had one.
For those unfamiliar: https://xkcd.com/2030/
I can admit that it is not necessarily rent-seeking (I've seen some cartoons from the 90s / 00s on streaming services, which were in mind when for that comment) but it still seems to me that it is a problem with the business model. It's the business owners' fault that they ran out of money and can't produce any more shows because they tried to make a broken model work especially if the reason they couldn't gather revenue is that people were simply able to bypass their attempts at doing so.

(So a restaurant is unable to gather revenue when people "simply bypass" their attempts with a dine-and-dash. Not sure how I feel about that, to be fair.)

Similarly, I don't really think people who pirated cable TV a decade or two ago were freeloading. As soon as it's being delivered directly to my living room via speed-of-light communication, and I have control over the machines that perform the delivery, the product is practically worthless. Comparing that to feature filmmakers who sell licenses to movie theaters, where I would need to physically tamper with machines I don't own in order to obtain the video data, there's a not-explicitly-for-the-sake-of-the-business reason for me to fork up money for the movie ticket. (Granted, they could give me the video data directly, but they don't.)
If you are having this conversation with me then you are a consciousness and I am a consciousness and that's as good a definition of consciousness as we are ever going to get. Consciousness thus defined exists entirely within the communicative medium.
I had the same thought. I guess you and I are talking about the same Order? If so, I'll see you tomorrow evening!
It's basic economics: gains from trade. It's more expensive to be entirely self-reliant.
Yeah, I think that was it. I respect that they tried, but I can't even see these things being used for air traffic control. 3-D? For sure. But big transparent panels?
> Zig's scope is just to be a better C that's free to add modern features...

The thing about that though, is there are a number of better C languages (both old and new) that have various levels of C interop. Languages like: D, Odin, Nim, Vlang, etc...
People who experience psychosis are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it, and it is perfectly safe to live with someone who has a well-managed disorder with psychosis as part of its symptom profile. I understand this may not be your personal experience.
Perhaps this is missing some necessary context. Note that the threads happened before a resolution, and have been created a few days before using them as an argument in Wasm. There was and still is no such design principle, because it doesn't make sense. Similarly, the arguments in the thread referenced are nonsense. JSON and CSS modules are files, which have different requirements than API calls. importScript the same, loads source code. Also note that JSON actually preserves idiomatic JS strings in data (APIs) through escape sequences, even though it stores as UTF-8 (files). Preserving in JSON makes sense, since sometimes JSON.stringify/parse are used for things like synchronous IPC, where maintaining integrity is critical. The Component Model should do the same, but refuses. The others are networking APIs, where UTF-8 is common. These are asynchronous and typically untrusted, where the protocols mandate UTF-8, and not maintaining synchronous state is much less problematic there. However, mutating string data as a side-effect of a normal function call is nothing less than a hazard, since some strings then seemingly randomly won't compare equal anymore after a call and stuff like that. WTF-16 (what JS effectively specifies) -> UTF-8 is lossy. The people in the threads know that very well, but keep bringing up the same already debunked arguments over and over again nonetheless to get their way. There, the thread suggests to encourage UTF-8 for new JavaScript APIs as well, which plays into the desires on the Wasm end yet is well-known to be impossible to pull off in JS. Applying this to JS conflicts with the ECMAScript specification, because JS has the same hard backward-compatibility constraints as Java, Dart, Kotlin, C# and other languages that evolved from UCS-2 to WTF-16. None of these languages can change their string semantics, in particular not to something akin to UTF-8, since it's semantically more restrictive and hence would break execution of existing and, arguably, all future code using idiomatic APIs like substring without being aware of potential mutation. It's subtle, I admit, but given that the arguments are factually invalid, the threads can only be one of two things: Incompetence or dishonesty. As always in political contexts, the mere mortal wonders what's better. Given foregoing discussions, where the same people participated, I would rule out incompetence. Now go there and question, and always the same gate keepers show up, simulating responses in good faith. Killing you with kindness, or however that's called. Dare to be unimpressed and follow-up, and someone quick-draws a CoC. That's why I decided to try something new, there pinging various people from the TAG, in the hope to finally get eyes on this behavior by someone knowledgeable, which obviously failed as well. Not sure if that helps, but that's some of the background :)

FWIW, here's the presentation I wanted to give to the Wasm CG that explains the details and pitfalls in an easier to digest way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri2NMnSQo4o
No, that does not follow.

Law is not a computer program. It's interpreted by human lawyers and judges. It's not a system of rules.

This sort of behavior falls under a broad set of rules about conspiracy, fraud, and similar. If that logic applied, I could apply for a permit to build an aesthetically-pleasing house, and run out of funds before the landscaping and exterior decoration were finished, and build slum housing. Fortunately, it doesn't work like that.
Nice gig purely on chance. It's time to abolish this whole nonsense.
> Do you really think Russia will ever pay reperations?

Yes. One way or another, Russia will pay. If only through discounted gas or indirectly after becoming China's puppet.
Her song “Body” from an earlier album is fantastic.
That's great. Every time I take my family on a leisurely stroll down Market Street I keep thinking what SF really needs are more people on drugs.
API can have predictable access patterns.
What fantasyland do you live in?
I feel like there's all sorts of disappointing design decisions.

* All of the endpoints are singular, but then /summaries is plural for some reason

* You can enumerate the congresses, but non of the congress representations have a value which represents the numeric ID that should be used on other requests. Unless you request the congress data using that number, and then it does include it.

Oh well, hopefully it improves and becomes more consistent over time.
Why do you need a queen in 21st century?

Frankly, we don't.

Can't the Brits abolish royalty, how they abolished slavery?

We could. We won't, not yet.

I say this as a Brit in favour of an elected head of state. It's probably best we get out of the Brexit quagmire first, before we set off another political crisis that splits the country in two.
> I do not think a suggestion to "encourage UTF-8 for new formats and APIs" can be said to "literally breaking the Web Platform"

Perhaps you don’t see it that way, but we have to respect when others do.

From the way I understand things, because JS strings (DOMString [1]) are already represented as UTF-16/WTF-16 internally, making the component model strings only UTF-8 puts certain languages in disadvantage against others specially regarding speed (because they’ll need to do extra effort when processing strings in order to be fully compliant, while the UTF-8 ones wouldn’t need to do it). This was the case for AssemblyScript, Javascript, Java and other JVM-related languages (Kotlin, Scala, ...).

Specifically for a language such as AssemblyScript, for which its aim is to be completely complaint with JS, tiny and fast to execute I can certainly understand why that was a concern and why being dismissed could cause certain frustration.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
It was removed in 2018 by Google. Apple took theirs away in 2016.
Market research said people think guns are scary. Companies fix it by removing scary guns.

Don't like it? Blame capitalism!
The wiki page seems to imply it was actually 76mm?
Oh that sounds interesting, I like the idea of money as a desire accumulator. That makes intuitive sense to me. Could you please expand on the implications of this perspective?
yeah, I am not even tripping about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji
Government will always kill all threats when they can....
May she be the last of her kind.
I'll believe it when I see it. This same administration has been secretly emailing Big Tech to censor people like Alex Berenson so I don't buy that they want moderation transparency and reform.
Also, fortunately, GPLv3 is a contract, and not a law, so this is a contractual obligation, not a legal one.
> Yeah I took a class that talked about this - most people agree that what you'd end up with is companies or individuals forcing you to disclose a hash to prove you voted the way they wanted.

That's what the one-way hash is for. If you're forced to provide a password beforehand, you can provide extra bogus passwords that cast ballots for both sides. The system can allow you to do this an arbitrary number of times.

As far as paper ballots go, nothing stops someone from bullying you into taking a video of you voting and dropping it into the ballot box.
Crypto can be secured and transported much more cheaply and easily - as opposed to gold, where many people would rather own/trade a receipt for gold kept in a secured vault.
Wow, that's some unsubstantiated mud slinging.

On the paid support point: Isn't that the model for all open source projects that want to progress past the "If you like it, please donate" stage?
Try adjusting the laser current downward; there is a setting which will provide the best compromise between disc readability and sound quality. Or - simply rip the disc and be done with it!
One of the interesting quirks of losing the empire is that there are a lot of precedents for 'Westminster model' countries becoming republics. The straightforward way is to give the reserve powers of the monarch to a mostly-ceremonial President on the Irish or Israeli model, and vest the rest formally in the government (which coincidentally also makes them subject to more parliamentary oversight). In the case of Canada/Australia etc. the Governors-General are already performing such a ceremonial presidency in reality. All that's needed is a process for electing new ones; fairly straightforward.

You're right that it would require international cooperation, though: the British parliament doesn't legislate for the other Commonwealth Realms any more.
ccTLDs are two letter correct. Avoiding two letter TLDs is non-practical. If you focus on the local market just take your country's TLD.
> she chose duty

I would like to choose the duty of being fabulously wealthy and literally immune to criminal or civil prosecution, too.
I think a huge source of confusion around East Asian cultures and rituals/religions is that this religion-culture has no formal names, definitions, structures and boundaries. There is no church or a verse responsible for the upside down 福 on a wall of a downtown Chinese restaurant, but there is it, and the only word applicable is superstitions. On the other hand there are Christ-mas cakes with a smiling figurine of a Saint standing on it.
'The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity' by Brian Hayden is a super interesting read on the origin of secret societies. Apparently there has always been a dynamic in communities that whenever there is a production surplus (according to the author happens in 'transegalitarian societies'), there tends to be a very small number of individuals that feel entitled to the surplus so they start to create multiple secret society startups with rituals and initiation practices often involving a high initiation cost to eventually centralize power (and publicly punish skeptics when possible).

Another characteristic about secret societies is that actually they need to be very public (to get new members), and what is a secret instead is the reason why the society exists, that part is not revealed unless becoming part of the group.
Yes they do, as long as you installed Caddy's root CA cert in the browser's trust store. Caddy will attempt to install it automatically with https://github.com/smallstep/truststore if possible (usually requires root) but if it fails you can try again with "sudo caddy trust". You might be using a client or trust store that isn't supported though, in which case you'll need to install the root cert manually.
If that's your idea of a fun viewing party, go for it. I'll stick with the big-screen experience.
Emerging Computing Challenges in the Interaction of Hardware and Software
Singapore does a pretty good job, and I would say drugs are losing the war there. But they use tactics many would describe as excessive. Such as capital punishment for selling drugs.
MinImagen – Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model
Why does it turn you off? Because Freedom is a turn off?

If freedom to make decisions about one’s own body is conditional, then it’s not ‘Freedom’. There ought to be another word for it.
Landlords you'd figure. Less competition. Less supply.
Well, that there was a rich and vibrant internet before advertising existed on it seems to indicate it's entirely possible.

But I don't think we chose ad-supported. The ads came in before anyone was seriously thinking about how to charge people for things. The decision was made for us. And even if we did pay cash money, the ads would have come anyway if history is any indication.

So perhaps the degradation of the internet in this way was inevitable. Still, it's a real loss and a real shame.
Emojipedia as usual has writeups on this stuff:

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/

https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-...
This is the real problem I have. If I delete content, move to a different note, and return to the first note, I lose the undo history and any possibility of regaining the deleted text.
Right.

I meant, in constitutional monarchies.
Three case reports for LSD overdoses: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339234169_LSD_Overd...
What can be done at the hospital? Where we are there’s not great access to healthcare and reading online suggests nothing can be done for most rib injuries anyway. She’s reluctant to put the effort into getting care if there won’t be a meaningful outcome.
> openly selling commercial-looking individually wrapped chocolates containing psilocybin

https://mushroomoneupbars.com/

IDK, people cheaply deliver these politely, promptly and dependably to your door where I live, and I don't live in CA.
Am I right in my reading that OP went more than 2 years into a startup without a single paying customer? That seems a little absurd.
Martin Gauer | I do stuff
> How long before we can replace monitors with virtual monitors via AR?

Hopefully never. People who don't wear glasses don't need something on their face to watch TV, people who do need glasses don't need to worry about AR googles meaning they have to choose between seeing a screen clearly or everything else and nobody has to worry about the AR goggle company watching and logging everything you see and plastering everything in your line of sight with ads.

I don't think physical screens are going anywhere anytime soon. I wouldn't mind having every wall in my home capable of being a screen though. Screen-as-wallpaper would be very nice since you could create smaller virtual screens on any wall wherever you needed one and it would mean you could change your wallpaper/color on a whim.
Is it possible they had some insider knowledge of engines being developed at one of the big manufacturers?

Thinking out loud here - lets say you have a few senior engineers that know that GE or Boeing or RR or something is currently working on a smaller supersonic engine. You know you cannot yourselves design such an engine but if it is released maybe it would make sense to get a head start designing a product to take advantage of it?
`nextafterf` does not in fact return 0. FTZ flushes denormals to zero when they are the result of an FP calculation, but `nextafter` is implemented using integer arithmetic, because it is much easier: simply add 1 as an integer, with special handling for Inf/NaN/-0.

It's only later that it gets treated as zero by DAZ: in the FP comparison, and then the call to ceil(), both of which use the FPU.

edit: confirmed, you can see it in action on this gist. When compiled with -ffast-math then the denormal does not compare greater than zero (it is flushed to zero by the comparison), but its bit pattern is integer value 1, which is nextafter(0).

https://gist.github.com/ridiculousfish/bfa7ed6b1d76c114e19b3...
Detroit and Ann Arbor in Michigan both decriminalized it:

November 2021:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detroit-just-decrimina...

September 2020:

https://apnews.com/article/ann-arbor-plants-featured-ca-stat...
This ain't right - https://looria.com/review/arq-premium

Arq is a backup software, but the page is all about water carbonator called Aarke. Makes for a fun read.
Tools like these are usually highly specialized as you say. I think you will need to do quite a bit of wrangling to get what you want. Wish you the best.
Charles authored a pretty fantastic book about philosophy that I highly recommend. I only knew him through tabloids, so didn’t have a good opinion.

It is called “Harmony: a new way of looking at our world” [1] and it is a genuinely novel work that integrates a few thousand years of philosophy. I recently wrote a review paper on the concept of harmony [2]— it was during that work that I came across his.

I’m kind of stoked we will have a philosopher king.

[1] http://library.lol/main/3440AE49041B63EB2CD03AF53201428B

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...