skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But do you agree that US taxpayers (or US citizens, or the intersection of those two groups) are entitled to chime in?
100% animation of each frame died a long time ago, because people don’t notice much about individual frames.

But as shown in the video you still need to hand tweak a great deal even if you don’t mess with individual frames. Suppose someone is jumping through a window, you need the sound of breaking glass to sync with the glass being broken.

It’s hard to explain why some things the article suggests are really easy and other stuff is difficult, but context is still a hard problem for AI. https://xkcd.com/1425/
>I'm scared because every day or two I see another article on HN that uses Free Speech, a precious and vital political freedom, as a way of spreading fear and hate. And I see the heads nodding along.

And you, like seemingly increasing amounts of people, fail to understand the mechanics of free speech. The part you don't understand is that hate is protected. And that is just as important to protect as any other free speech.
profitable ideas are not always good ideas. child slavery is pretty profitable and a common practice underlying modern silicon age society. still not good.
That's exactly it. What the videos never mention is that experimental results aren't really expected. The unification energy is stupid high.

Which is why the other thing the videos never mention: you won't expect experimental results from any of the competing theories, either.

This isn't a serious scientific debate. It's a few scientists annoyed that they're getting less funding, and accusing the string theory people of exactly the same things they do.

There is a genuine scientific debate here, and a lot of real problems. None of which they make videos about.

Note in particular that "millions" is probably right, and it's pocket change compared to the LHC -- which is NOT a string theory experiment. Its energies are well within the standard model, which is the problem. There is no practical way for us to get outside that range. String theory persists because it's pencil and paper and grad students, and doesn't cost that much.

An argument could be made for shutting down the LHC and sending the money to soil science or lupus or something else more likely to produce results. But the string theory arguments being conducted via YouTube are abysmal science.
> Interestingly, though, the way you talked about inducing collapse reminds me of a Vajrayana Buddhism guru type thing where the guru sometimes punches you in the self-centered weak spot in the context of practices that help you realize self-clinging as the ultimate source of the pain.

That happened to me after I came to a pagan high priestess. I tried to explain my problems.. but she knew already (learned narcissism and other terrible behaviors as a defense - terrible parents). She was able to do a ritual which was a forced ego-death. The ritual was maybe 5 minutes. None of the hollywood trappings. It allowed me to see me for who I am, others for who they were. Basically it reversed much of my extreme ego, and did similar to what Tonglen does... but in a span of a half hour. I broke down at least 5 times with the gravity of what I had done to others in my life.

My case was extreme. And since I explicitly asked, she did so. I asked her afterward the downsides (since I knew I was spiraling downward), and most people just crumble under that. And I'm still eminently grateful she did so.
That could be because - for example - there are now Tweets saying Hitler was misunderstood and didn't really mass murder anyone. And those Tweets are not being taken down.

I guess some people are okay with that. But you don't even have to be "progressive" to see the problem.
Got any materials on this? I wouldn’t mind learning and attempting something similar.
This has been true for decades and has nothing to do with “AI,” it’s just classic computer graphics.
Just my experience here, but:

A badly run cooperative fails because the people involved don't take it seriously, or lose their alignment and break apart. A well run cooperative fails (or succeeds) for all the usual reasons any business does. A well run coop ends up feeling a lot like a small business with a traditional structure, and an owner who respects their employees and doesn't act like a tyrant. That's cool, but it's a lot of work to reproduce the performance characteristics of an existing technology.

I've been involved in many sessions where we tried to experiment with the structure and mechanics of how a cooperative works, in order to address what seem to be persistent shortcomings in the model. Nobody has really cracked the code yet, in my opinion.

When it comes down to it, having done both, I think I'd rather work for a good boss at a small company than be in another coop, even a good one. I want someone competent to do all the behind the scenes work, and make most of the decisions, asking me for my opinion on the things that affect me directly or for which my expertise can provide some direct insight.

The advantages: If I don't like the company, I can leave without feeling like I've failed: there are no non-work relationships, or sense of ownership holding me there. I don't have to attend additional meetings. I don't have to look at budgets. I don't have to be on a committee or working group. I don't have to pick a side and convince the other side of anything. If the company makes a bad decision, I say "ha ha, those morons did it again" and keep on doing my job.

In short, as I have come to identify less with work, I have become less interested in the cooperative model because the value of ownership has gone down.
This is sort of like saying that basketball players work out and practice so they can win. Yes, of course, but why do they want to win so badly?

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/04/the_abusive_boyfrien...

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/the_other_ego_epidem...
How I hang Christmas lights without a ladder
Not unheard of, but also I do think it would be different - everyone knows holiday time is limited, which feels different to having an unusually long weekend every week. It shouldn't, and maybe I am overly concerned by the impact this would have - but I would still be much more comfortable with the idea if it is at least available org-wide rather than by exception only.
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> "the story"

But it's not a singular story, it's many thousands of independent stories. That link only provides the other side of some of them.
Worst take on this possible but okay.
Ain't that the truth. I know one extremely wealthy person (inherited his father's company). Can barely feed himself. Spends his days waxing his collection of luxury automobiles, immersed in superhero fantasy and stalking women. Truly a carcass of a man.

But his every passing whim and crisis is the axis of existence for his gibbering swarm of sucker-creatures.

He has a truly wonderful support system.
Ah, thank you for asking. I disagree with the idea that _just because we can't conduct experiences that directly measure something, then there's nothing we can know_ (which is what is implied in her text, and by the many people in this thread repeating the "not even wrong" meme).

Sure, it's not experimental physics, but as long as it's _bound by reality_ somehow, it's still science.

So the way a good physicist operates is to say "fine, I can't do the experiment, but let me see what is allowed by current experimental bounds". This is good. It's also an idea as old as science itself.

In contrast it's tremendously ironic that physics poopooers like Sabine and that other peter woit guy typically choose to work on special-relativity-violating theories, which are immediately outside of the bounds that the experiments we do have impose. Do you understand what I'm saying? This person is claiming "we can't directly probe a string therefore string theory is religion", but then she works on something which is worse than religion - something which we know is experimentally disproven. (I'm talking about the loop quantum gravities, and entropic gravities and so on and on - they're all inconsistent with one of the most toughroughly experimentally tested laws, special relativity). If they weren't so good at convincing the public that no one knows anything, their tragedy would be comic.
Please don't post this sort of dross to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
None of the three frankly make sense to me. Musk is winning rather than collapsing, Trump had his collapse two years ago, and Ye is going through something else right now.
That was an interesting read for me. I have experienced most symptoms of the collapse a few months ago, but I have almost none of the symptoms of NPD.

Maybe the collapse is defined a bit too generically. It looks like it could just be someone going through a rough patch.
Narcissism in the workplace among leaders is fairly common.

I recently was let go by a narcissistic boss.

Early on I was fairly heavily 'love bombed' and told how great I was. I was told how the team was being built up around me, how my leadership and inspiration was driving the team forward. This boss did a few things, staying up late nights, to help me out on a few things. I thought "Wow this person really has my back!". So I let my guard down.

Over time, like the frog in boiling water, I gradually experienced a lot of gaslighting about my performance. One day I would be told X behavior is good and expected. The next day I was told that same behavior was problematic.

This boss increasingly became very top-down and domineering, and had a fairly fragile sense of their self worth. I helped to setup the team this boss took over as a Director. I was well liked and respected as a leader on the team (I was a Staff+ IC). I think this boss felt challenged by the esteem I had with my peers. They would work to undercut my own leadership, exclude me from decision making, and increasingly chide me for having idea. Providing technical leadership, and other activities that were core to my role, were seen as negatives. All of these were activities I used to receive praise for.

I started to feel like a scapegoat for anything going on in the team, being told I was "disruptive" and a "distraction" for doing my job. My expectations became whittled down to things like editing X document, or having Y conversation. Very micro-managed low level things.

Sadly, it took a long time for me to see this pattern. I thought I was the problem, and so I internalized a lot of the behaviors. It created a tremendous amount of stress and sleepless nights.

At my wits end, I tried to get some coaching and outside perspectives. I realized after a long career I hadn't had a negative relationship with a boss. I started to be more assertive after I decided after a year plus I wasn't the problem. As I started to speak up for myself more and more, the boss let me go, to the surprise of many of my fellow teammates.

I feel like I went through a classic idealization -> devaluation -> discard cycle of narcissism[1].

Long story short, please educate yourself about narcissism. Most empathic, 'normal' people assume they're the problem, they will internalize it, and so this kind of subtle abuse can creep up on you.

1 - https://pathwaysfamilycoaching.com/4-phases-of-a-narcissisti...
> the third-largest withdrawal from the exchange
I go through the front page and right click open new tab the link to the comments section for all the stories that seem interesting. Then I go through each tab, see if the comments are interesting, and only then do I click on the article.
“DALL-E 2 and other AI art models can now produce a near-infinite variety of illustrations using a simple text prompt. By 2025, they'll outperform human artists on every metric”

jesus this is so stupid on its face its laughable. this is like an artist saying by 2025 that artists will have replaced coders. you have no idea what you’re talking about and how stupid you sound
For me it was the Oculus Quest :) I still had a token FB account just for that. But 2 months ago they finally decoupled it so I deleted it the same week.

Facebook's usefulness for its original purpose: keeping up to date on friends, was already broken years ago when they moved from the one simple linear feed to the algorithmic timeline. I don't want suggested content.
https://soundraw.io/ has impressed me, and it's both a permissible license as well as reasonably affordable. I'd say only about 10-20% of what it makes is acceptable to me, but that fraction of it is actually pretty catchy.
You basically explained a corporate, non-family, version of the grey rock technique. Nice!

Source for the curious, many more online and on YouTube (including often helpful role play videos, strongly recommend for practical purposes): https://www.talkspace.com/blog/grey-rock-method/
I think what we need to do is feed the AI generated art into AI and build new models and see what happens!

The issue with articles like the original post is that typically they are written, not by animators or artists, but by data scientists.

This becomes obvious when they approach animation with a lens of realism. In fact, the photograph has not replaced all visual media because artistic expression goes well beyond a facsimile of what we see and experience. The difference between a Degas and a photograph of a ballerina is multifaceted.

Animation is no different, and naturally AI will be a useful tool, but without understanding art in it’s entirety, and without being able to create art oneself, without the aid of a machine will separate the plebs from true artisans.

If AI gets to the point where it can have limitless creativity—then I hate to say it but we’re all fu*ed.
https://scrimba.com/scrim/czvKPPsw

Imba was used to build Scrimba, the interactive platform to learn coding(mostly web related courses.)

It's pretty cool. I tried it out in its nascent stages.
For Want of a Join
what’s he ever done to invite this kind of attention to his day to day decisions?
I'm not the person you're responding to, but to me it seems like a straightforward and commonly used technique. The sentence is intentionally crafted for comedic effect via sarcasm, given the general audience that comprises HN, and given what's being pumped across all social media platforms & news media outlets. to say it directly is to utterly remove any comedic/ sarcastic effect.

whether you find it funny/ effective is up to you, though.
Elon Musk is an absolute failure of a human being. Gross materialism and ego-driven self promotion is the death of the soul. Leaving your wife and mother of your 5 children is a failure of such magnitude, it eclipses any possible wealth. Torturing and killing countless animals for Neuralink is demonic. Being obsessed with living forever is also demonic.

If the world ever regains it's senses and spirituality, Musk and Trump will be prime examples used to teach us about now NOT to live our lives.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbetweening
Starbucks is a mixed bag for the far left: it offers woke progressive LGBTQ protections, alongside their healthcare covering sex reassignment surgery, at the same time it's classically anti-union. Starbucks locations are usually the first target for antifa mobs, much to the dismay of the trans community.
I love this question and I salute you.

What if you practice being wrong? Present your firmest-held opinions to those most prepared to challenge them.

I suspect non-narcissists don’t lose their minds over it because they practice it all the time, present more accurate and reasonable personas and don’t base their personality on a fiction.
Its always vogue to call out public/popular humans for diseases. Not the best look.

Now, capitalism... now that causes a whole host of problems. If a corporation were a real human, it would be diagnosed as a sociopath. Noam Chomsky did a great work with "The Corporation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5hEiANG4Uk
Conflating wealth with speech is another recent SCOTUS boondoggle.

• Citizens United v. FEC
• Speechnow.org v. FEC
• McCutcheon v. FEC

Corporate personhood with rights afforded to actual citizens but separate from actual citizens laid the groundwork for a whole mosaic of wrongheaded schools of thought.

"Amoral, effectively immortal fictional entities can be created at will with the rights and privileges of ordinary citizens. What could go wrong?"
I see the term ego death used in relation to people taking hero doses of Psilocybin.
Comparing oneself to others is usually the #1 indicator.

Once someone builds their identity around a job, title, group, app... they either continue to build and nurture that identity by focusing exclusively on their strengths... or play "not to lose" and get defensive at anything that threatens their image.
When I try export to chat it just gives me an error “unable to export chat”.
> I like PEX, but I know opinions vary

What’s not to like about PEX?
"combination of Hessian/burlap jute-type rope (of which there is always some lying around in my workshop) and linseed oil based paint."

Could you explain that? How do you seal pipe fittings with rope?

Edit: found an explanation. TIL that you can use the fibers just like tape and wrap the threads.
Yup. Once the silver was removed from the blix and things were ph neutral they could be sent down the drain. Safe chemical disposal was (eventually) one of the prime criteria used for formulating photo chemicals.
Vulnerability in AWS AppSync allowed unauthorized access to cloud resources
> were willing to put 5-10% of their income in exchange for work from home.

Why? The company is going to use your home as an office and they should be paying that 5-10% extra.
Why business paying corporate landlord for office space is okay, but when Joe Public offers his own lowly place then it's a no no?
When people don't recognise their value, they are prime for being exploited.
Yeah I think this is it. Bullying other people commonly makes some women more attracted to you. It works in a lot of social settings
As someone who has some difficulty with reading sometimes, I find Python's way of doing things to be a genuine readability challenge. Python's the language I get paid to write, but, if I thought I could get away with it at work, I might try advocating we try out Hy simply so I could return to a world of having visible, non-whitespace delimiters to aid me in reading code.

I don't want to make too much hay about my challenges because I'm not sure they realistically qualify as a disability. But my own meager experience in this department does demonstrate to me first-hand that "it would be nice if accessibility affordances were optional" largely defeats the purpose of accessibility.
Is the market not supposed to reflect culture?
Is that AI driven, or is it just "here are the control points on the key frames, make them go"?

It would be neat to be able to have fewer key frames and better in betweening so that more storytellers could have access without a team of CalArts grads. That doesn't seem unreasonable given what we've already seen, but I'm neither an animator nor an AI expert so I'm curious.
I don’t think it’s a completely unfair scenario to imagine. If wealth continues to concentrate in to a smaller and smaller group of people, and having wealth makes it easier to change the laws stopping the concentration of wealth, what exogenous factors would stop this process?
I wonder if you can predict when narcissists will lash outward versus lash inwards through self destructive behaviors. Would be helpful to know beforehand even if the predictive accuracy wasn’t very high.
Something I rarely see, if ever, is that not all narcissists are full blown sociopaths. Some have just been molded with incoherent mental maps of social relationships, fear, value, affection.. and some don't feel good about this failed balance. It's daily source of pain and dread about your own state and the others (ironic being obsessed with others and being self involved).

Very few psychology article deal with this and only consider narcs as evil clear headed monsters. Not always.
The Commonwealth
If you come from math, you should know that “orthogonal” means “independent” in statistics and linear algebra.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_independence

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1536234/correlation...
AI generation of inbetweens would already be wonderful.
Wales might be an option considering their One Planet Development rules - http://www.oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/ - or for more detail http://www.oneplanetcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...

While planning rules make it difficult to make new-builds in the countryside, you might look at fixer-uppers in rural Ireland. If you're a UK citizen you still have the right to live in Ireland.

In many cases councils are eager to have people fixing up vacant houses, and grants are available. This is how I came to have thatched cottage on 3.5 acres in Co. Offaly. And I had ~40,000 euro, not 1 million pounds! I made a site to find properties like this, go to gaffologist.com/ and choose "advanced" if you want to select for acreage (warning - it's buggy!)

https://www.youtube.com/@MossyBottom is worth watching on this topic as well; he lives off-grid in rural Ireland and is fixing up an old cottage.
That is why banks were invented in the first place: running around in the middle ages with bags of money was downright suicidal. Keeping it in your home was a bad idea because at any moment as plague or war could break out. From Japan to Italy every society came up with a centralised solution.
I’m definitely going to try this out on a personal project soon.

I had forgotten about Imba. I recall trying it a few years ago, and I loved it, with the exception that it wasn’t capable of doing something that I considered rather crucial at the time.

I can’t for the life of me remember what it was, and I know there was an issue filed asking for exactly what I wanted, with positive intent to add the feature, but as time went on I kind of dropped and forgot about Imba.

I’m curious to try something in it and see how I fare with however far it’s progressed since then. And I will definitely check this framework out when I do.
I always compare these claims to self checkout. We’ve had technology to replace cashiers for 30 years now and they still just augment checkout cashiers a bit.

People are creatures of habit and really don’t want to change our routines. Plus large businesses are extremely risk averse.
I came from a working class background and aspirations got me this far, with no plans to slow down - but I could if I chose to. Tax rates are so high that a 20% pay cut would be a much smaller real terms pay decrease.

> while you won't be working Fridays, your mind is still going to be occupied

This is another reason why I haven't gone through with it yet.

> at least in the UK, pay laughable salaries anyway if you compare it to the profit

Agreed; another reason why the 100% pay for 80% time is appealing.
> It's the obvious outcome of letting a too-powerful monopoly run amok.

I feel like as soon as a legitimately better search engine popped up, I would start using it. But there hasn't yet for me.

Are there regulatory or other moats preventing new participants for giving it a go?
It's tricky. Myself being very comfortable alone, I still find myself sometimes craving for socialization, but hanging out with people who don't like the same music as me always leaves me more depressed than before.