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Ian Hubert's Lazy Tutorials would be an excellent supplementary series once you know some of the basics. They're not a general guide to Blender, but they're great resources. He has his own style of working and he's shockingly productive with it.

Lazy Tutorials: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Dq5VyfewIxxjzS34k2NES_P...

My favourite guides of his are not in the Lazy Tutorials playlist, though. Perhaps they were not lazy enough:

Blender Motion Tracking: Room Transformation - https://youtu.be/lY8Ol2n4o4A

Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender - https://youtu.be/RxD6H3ri8RI
The article says: "The problem of aiming to be a privacy focused service means a high level of scrutiny is required. We are not talking about meme providers like NordVPN here; we are talking about a company who needs to do better."

So he's claiming that Mullvad gets things right that other providers get wrong, but they're still missing a critical step.

At the end: "All in all, Mullvad VPN appears to have put expanding the number of locations over user privacy. That points to a bigger problem in the VPN industry. That is a lack of a perfect provider. Mullvad VPN has multiple hops available but AzireVPN chooses their upstream carefully, runs everything from RAM and uses a custom made TPM-Level Rootkit that blocks common network monitoring features in Linux but does not offer real Multi-hop (Only though Socks5 proxy)."

So every problem has a solution, but no VPN is offering all of them. But I suspect that's because VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.
> How can it properly attribute it?

There it is. If you have to ask that question, it follows that co-pilot isn't the right tool for developers to use in the first place.

Would you - or your employer - want to risk a lawsuit because you inadvertently copied code that's actually released under a license with particular terms of use?

"Oh, my due diligence went as far as trusting Microsoft and their product for making sure any and all rights where cleared before their tool provided me code." is a meager excuse in a court case when the original author of said code decides to sue you.

> Little bits of code should not be copyrightable in the first place. I can't copyright a single sentence fragment.

True. You can't copyright single fact statements. But clearly, there are cases where co-pilot suggests way more then that.

It's also true that most people don't really consider how stringent copyright laws really are until they are affected by the consequences of their actions (fines, suits, cease & desist,...).

> it's very rare to use a big chunk of code from copilot without changes

That's a tentative claim.
> Lenin’s mummy team has “created a ‘quasibiological’ science that differs from other embalming methods,” slowly substituting parts of the body with materials like plastic.

It's all plastic by now.
I suspect the latter. They are also putting on a show for each other.

Most of the stuff that actually happens, does so, in the shadows (for good or ill).
Positing moving from one extreme to another doesn’t avoid the fact that there’s plenty of middle ground.
More like 2+ years.
Do you in the UK have any means to recall an MP and force a by-election? (for whatever reason -- gone rogue, gone awol, gone loony, etc.)
There is a difference between ‘required to do the math, but gets money back/doesn’t owe anything’ and ‘completely exempt’. Puerto Rico is exempt except for certain classes of payments (mainly ‘money directly from the feds’ and ‘money that is intentionally going straight back to the mainland’.

There is a whole ecosystem of companies in the island for instance which use this for tax arbitrage, providing services for mainland folks at lower rates because of it, which they couldn’t do if they had the same tax rates.

The economy there is… unusual, partially because of it’s current semi-favored situation. If it had to play in an even playing field from the mainland US, it isn’t clear what it would look like, but it would probably shift to even more of a resort/retirement place (like Hawaii), which is not to the locals benefit in many cases.

At least if they want jobs that aren’t just hospitality type jobs, which aren’t for everyone.
`ArgumentNullException` was my first idea too. I would and did use it for this kind of purpose.
Neither is good. Too many indirect elections. It should be easier for commoners to choose their leader.
Worth the repost, I really wish stuff like Clojure and Pharo became mainstream/defaults. For now I have to settle with side projects every now and then.

If devs became aware of how fun and fast their workflow COULD be we'd get these features in more mainstream frameworks.
I might be better off if my hacker news account was permanently banned
Beware of anecdotical arguments, they aren't arguments.
This is a point that Dr. Richard Barkley, one of the major researchers in ADHD in the last few decades, has stated slightly differently. In a sort of jest, he mentions that [ADD] should be called “intention deficit disorder” as there is plenty of attention to be given to things, sufferers just lack a lot intentionality behind their actions. This ultimately manifests as an executive disfunction which prevents this slice of the population from subconsciously knowing how to prioritize or assess the importance/value/urgency of stimuli.
That also describes GPT-3. The hyperperameters are a blueprint.

If you don't want to count the data flow in a human brain as "scripted", you can't count the data flow in an artificial neural network as scripted; if you do count the ANN as scripted, then you should also count brains as such.

Current AI are, it is worth pointing out, less complex than a human brain: GPT-3 is appropriately the same number of parameters as a rat has synapses, while DALL•E 2 is approximately a honey bee. But the argument you're making has not yet touched scale.
The beginning of WW2 comes to mind (see the 2017 movie : Churchill)
Will we ever read anything written by a human ever again?
So is the usual flow to throw these in places where code shouldn't execute but then create tests to try and trip it up to see if that is truly the case? I would hate to be running a release build with this, or does the compiler do something different depending on build type?
He already has been for years. See the Black Spider memos he secretly sent to ministers, and all the secret carve-outs the Queen had. They have their grubby fingers in politics, but are just clever at hiding it.
I was using brave for a while but am now fully converted to Arc- https://thebrowser.company/

Reminds me of using Chrome for the first time after IE days.
If you wanted to suspend a user's account for a period of time you would say "suspended for two weeks". What if you wanted to suspend a user forever but it might have been a mistake or you might change your mind?
That one's choice of partner is indicative of humility is an interesting sentiment. I guess if you see it as "the younger the better" and consider another person picking a better partner as reducing your pool of acceptable partners then it sort of makes sense.
I think the relevant question is, why did a Thatcherite monetary policy collapse overnight in 2022 when it didn't in the early 1980s?

One reason is that the British nationalized services that Thatcher sold off to private investors in the 1980s (railroads, electricity, etc.) no longer exist, other than the national health service, which the British public would riot over if it was privatized. With nothing left to cannibalize, there was no way for the government to boost the financial markets, leading to the collapse of the pound.

This is good news, as it signals that the era of neoliberalism, with all its intellectual hypocrisy and disastrous outcomes, is suffering one death blow after another, and will finally be discarded on the dustbin of history once and for all.
This is a good policy in general. Say everything you want to say in one comment, and do not reply back to anything. Replies are where people start getting defensive.

Even if the discussion is friendly, once you've said your piece, it is usually best to let others reply. The discussion gets better the more unique perspectives are in it.

Same goes for meetings, ideally.
.. and how will you feel that this precedent has been set in the court of international affairs, when your country decides to usurp and defeat other sovereign nations around the world?

I mean, sure. Lets have Russia treated the way a country should be treated when it invades another sovereign nation. That'd be progress, and it would be a great way to stop the US' imperialism, also, while we're at it ..
The population of the UK is about 67 million. The House of Commons is the major legislative body and it is comprised of 650 members.

That's roughly 1 member per 100,000 people. You know your member. Parliament is dissolved every 5 years. So elections are pretty regular, but not overwhelming.

There's a House of Lords, but they seem to have far less power. The work of Parliament gets done in the Commons.

The main legislative body of the US is Congress, comprising of the Senate and the House of Representatives. There are 100 Senators and 435 Representatives. The US has roughly 330 million people. So about 5 times the population being represented by more than 100 fewer people.

Senators are a little weird. They serve for 6 years but about a third of them are up for election every two years. And never two from the same state. So a Senator is either on Cycle 1, Cycle 2, or Cycle 3. So every 2 to 4 years, a state gets to choose one person to represent the entire state in one of the houses of Congress.

Then for Representatives, all of them are up for reelection every two years. As soon as they are sworn in, they're already thinking about reelection. And the number of representatives are set by the Census taken every 10 years. Right now, California has 53 representatives for 39 million people. About half the population of the UK, but being represented by under a tenth.

So in the US, politicians are more akin to personalities than actual people. We essentially elect brands, not people.
no idea

I mean if you worry about attacks like described there you probably shouldn't use VPN anyway and probably "just" using Tor isn't good enough either.
No mystery whatsoever. It is just what I said. She was a fall guy. It couldn't have been more obvious.
That narrative that the rise is hurtful to businesses, and thus the economy, has always existed. Of course what changes is what the media choose to report, but you'll note that in any case it certainly isn't making a lot of noise that economists are not keen.

It's quite a hike and it sends the UK among the highest taxed countries in Europe...
Show HN: New idea for links in the Scroll Language
This is very not-typical and the details are still in flux. That being said, towards the end of a long run of a party in power, things do tend to get rather bumpy.

It's clearly time for a general election and end of the Conservative tenure in government.
It's CPU review season again. This means most places will emphasize Cinebench.

Cinebench is a poor general purpose CPU benchmark because:

1. Heavily favors SMT/Hyperthreading

2. Heavily favors CPUs with many slow cores, over CPUs with fewer faster cores

3. Extremely popular today because AMD pushed it in its
marketing when Zen1 and Zen2 were favored by Cinebench disproportionally

4. Unoptimized for Apple Silicon/ARM

5. Uncorrelated with gaming

6. Generally poorly correlates with office/dev work

Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/pitid6/eli5_why_d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_of_MPs_Act_2015
Amazing how little attitudes change over the years. This reads just like a modern Bostonian complaining about the ways and inhabitants of places like Springfield or Fall River.

That said, much to the credit of Mr. Sandborn, unlike many, perhaps most, of his modern counterparts he does not implicitly assume superiority to the people about who's plight he writes nor does he proclaim that fixing his favorite pet issues using his favorite pet solutions will suddenly fix everyone's problems.
I'd just like to say I appreciate you for providing a diverse selection of file lockers. Thank you fair stranger.
Now think about how (some) of these libraries came to be:

Someone like you wrote something like the above for their needs. Then they needed it again in another program. Then in another. They figured, why not put this into a library I can use across all my projects. Maybe this was internal only. Maybe at some point they thought: why not push this out there to github and upload it to a public repo and let other people use it.

Then someone (maybe the same person) needs not just XX.XX.XX.XXXX with actual numbers. For whatever reason their standard is vXX.XX.XX.XXXX[-RCX] or other variations that aren't just a simple number format.

Of course if you never ever have a need for that kind of version number (or whatever other "problem area" we apply this principle to) and only ever write one piece of software, you're fine with roll your own. But this is (one way) how libraries get "bloated". The fact that they are libraries (or frameworks if we think a little wider) need to take care of "all the problems" and not just a very specific one. Especially if it's open source and not an in-house only library which attracts lots of people with lots of different variations on the same problem. It's very hard to have a very opinionated stance of "this is what you get, change your version number standards, I'm not changing my library". Of course you can do that, but your library will probably end up in obscurity. The "can deal with anything you throw at us" is probably going to be more popular and if there's no Linus type guy doing code reviews before accepting contributions, you end up with sub-optimal code very quickly.

I've done the opposite before. I came to a code base that had various variations on sending email notifications for batch jobs. Like literally 20 jobs with 20 variations (well maybe it was 15 different ones with different types of bugs and quirks). I extracted them into an in-house library for sending a standardized version of these emails. In the end it had accumulated quite a few features for adjusting the email template, attaching various formats of output, automatically zipping it up etc. I'm pretty sure you might call it "bloated". In reality it made things better (consistent) for the users receiving those, easier for us to understand errors, faster to code new jobs and just calling one standard function that everyone knew how to use and that all bugs had been ironed out from over time. Import library, call function. Instead of deciding which other project to copy the email sending code from, finding out where in the mess of code it was, throwing it away again because "Oh yeah right, that project's version of it can't deal with this type of attachment etc.
As a counterpoint, a recently released via FOIA transcript of Obama to reporters in the last days of his presidency:

Obama: Privately, that's not -- [Trump's] interactions with me are very different than they are with
the public, or, for that matter, interactions with Barack Obama, the distant figure. He's very polite to me, and has not stopped being so. I think where he sees a vulnerability he goes after it and he takes advantage of it.

A fair amount of it is still kayfabe to the pros (the problem is, it isn't to the public).

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://assets.b...
would love some system app that auto-generates names based on screenshot content
It's not exactly true that Truss "rejected any windfall taxes on energy companies" even though the opposition Labour party keep on claiming that: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-labour-kee...

Basically, the Tories had already placed a windfall tax on UK oil and gas before Truss even became PM that's almost identical to the one that Labour have called for, and no-one has proposed removing it. (To some extent, it looks like Labour copied the existing Tory tax.) The main reason why Truss' original proposal required so much more taxpayer funding was that her price cap lasted for two years rather than six months - Labour were relying on windfall tax revenue from well before the start of the price subsidy to make their numbers add up and still couldn't quite do it, so there's no way to extend it for longer without massive government borrowing.

Most of the media coverage didn't explain this at all, they just repeated Labour's claims that all that government borrowing was because the Tories were in the pockets of energy companies and rejected a windfall tax. Nor did they explain the practical consequences of the price cap ending in April. All of the numbers thrown around for the cost of Truss' longer price cap assumed energy prices would still be unaffordably high by then, but no-one pointed this out and what it would mean for households. Of course, the moment the government annouced their energy support would end in April there were headlines everywhere about the huge bills this could cause for households.
> All arguments from leftists…

Clearly unbiased opinion. /s
I am indeed a meat robot.

I think this is at risk of becoming a debate over the word "script". Is it a matter of complexity? Is GPT-3 a script? Is Windows a script, even though it has more bytes of behavioral code than the GPT-3 weights? Will the Roomba be conscious if I replace its programming with a neural network, even if it behaves the same way? What if I add code to randomly vary its behavior? What if I add code to learn at runtime, considering that the learning code is still perfectly static?
Is OpenStack fighting a lost battle?
Indeed, although the machines were designed to be manually operated and not CNC. The precision is such that they never wear out, because the surfaces are geometrically accurate to the point that even the leadscrew has full-area contact against its mating surface.

Moore does not, and sadly cannot, make these machines anymore.
> IF UK says they want to get back into EU they'll say YES almost instant

UK as a full, voting member of the EU, on request? Not going to happen any time soon. Far too many downsides from the crazy brits. The UK would have to prove to the EU that they are going to be constructive, have worked all of the Brexit insanity out of their system and it wasn't coming back. This might take a while.

UK as an "EU aligned rule-taker" that participates in the single market, without voting rights, a bit like Norway? Sure, that's an easy win for both parties.
Even "academic performance" isn't a clear enough predictor. It isn't even a single axis!

I was a perfect student all through grade school; except I had terrible grades in almost every class. Why? Because I almost never did homework. I usually aced tests without even trying, though. And I could always provide meaningful input into class discussions. But that isn't enough for the strict traditional structure of academia.

Teachers would make me stay after school to try to catch up on homework, and I would just wait patiently until it was late enough in the evening that they would give up and let me go home. This was a recurring pattern from 4rth grade all through 12th. I only graduated high school because I finished hundreds of pages of make-up work over the last couple weeks.

The reality is I couldn't do homework. I could focus and sit still, which must have meant I don't have any attention or hyperactivity disorder...

...but that's not what ADHD is. It's an executive functioning disorder.

ADHD is being diagnosed more today because it has been incredibly under-diagnosed in the past. It's still significantly underdiagnosed in adults today.
Two things:

- The UK doesn’t have the $

- I think in this instance it was partly the fact that they didn’t seem to be interested in the fiscal position and didn’t publish an assessment because they thought it was bad - so the markets assumed the worst. Don’t think any U.S. president has gone quite so far - happy to be corrected!
I'm curious what they replaced WebSphere Commerce with. (I was there from 2011-2012). Beautiful office, terrible infrastructure (at least back then).
Just coming back around to this, we also used Splunk consultants for their SIEM solution and the first one we got wasn't very good, but the second was amazing (I wish we could have hired her directly).

The guy we had help us tune our clusters after I rebuilt them all was also very good. Fortunately I'd done most everything by the books and we overkilled the nodes with hardware (we had some older hypervisor nodes lying around I stole for Splunk).
It's an extremely biased opinion, and I make no apologies.

I think every single living member of every Tory cabinet present and past should be strung up in Parliament Square. I'm not in any sense unclear about my views on them.

We have had twelve years of disastrous Tory austerity that has comprehensively destroyed the UK's economy. What's the plan? Let them keep trying until they get something right? How long is it supposed to take for their austerity policies to work, to get the economy back to a sensible state?
Ethical values guide us to the reflection or evaluation of what is good and bad/fair and unfair, that is why they have the character of antithetical forces such as night and day, sleep and wakefulness.
I don't think the NIH is the only source for this type of data. Don't 23andMe and other DNA data companies have millions of genomes of individuals along with their names and addresses? These can easily be (or already have been) linked to much more personal, financial, and other information than is in the NIH data.

We know these companies have used their data for law enforcement purposes. Do they also allow academic researchers to use it (anonymized, of course)?
The default is to only present a limited selection of addons that are reviewed by Mozilla for mobile compatibility and user experience. The way this is implemented is by constraining the user to installing extensions that are in a particular Mozilla-managed addon collection. On Nightly (and now on Beta), you can use a debug-menu feature to override the ID of this collection with your own.
Actual title: “ Justice Department Announces Charges and Arrests in Two Cases Involving Export Violation Schemes to Aid Russian Military”
No, however I think there are some rules about them breaking the law and being sacked.
I have to commend you, the testimony is hilarious to watch and succors a distant memory of the "mission accomplished" era of our dear George W Bush. This show trial if anything was a teachable moment for a party which --at the time-- had grown quite comfortable crushing any and all dissent during the Iraq war.

the great irony here is that Galloway left an innocent man, only to watch the US casually endorse its private contractors as they bribe taliban warlords for safe passage in Afghanistan in 2010.
The universe runs on some principle. It may not be accessible to us, either for inability to gather the data, inability to represent it in our heads, or sheer staggering complexity, but there is some unified theory.
Good riddance. The worst PM the UK has ever had.

Completely ignorant and intent on favoring the rich she dashed into the porcelain cupboard swinging.

The only good thing that can be said about her is that her reign was short.
The whole article is theoretical in nature (and light in substance). This is probably just who the author wanted to sign up for, then they discovered the common caveat of all VPN providers.
In fact, I tried to explain why Open Source works in "Scientific Software" in general. Sorry if that wasn't obvious.

People generally ask "why" people give away their life research for free, and I wanted to clarify that as a person who works in an HPC Center and makes research himself.
It’s less straightforward to corrupt my idea than the obvious corruption of profit in todays market, I’ll give you that.