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> Auto-tweening has basically displaced hand animation for most TV cartoons.

That's got nothing to do with AI, it's just economics, and it's been like that for years. Everybody doing animation on the cheap wants to avoid drawing every frame.

Prior to digital animation you used other techniques, like recycling frames or tracing over existing drawings (Disney used to do this all the time in their films).

What digital animation really allowed to happen was 2D puppeteering, where you could rig puppets and animate them in two dimensions without having to draw the key poses or the in-betweens. Now we're at the point where the standard way to do 2D animation is via puppets, rather than any sort of hand-drawn (be it key poses or full tweening)
Both. It's currently mostly interpolation driven, but there are already added smarts and heuristics in the algorithms, and AI work is done to make it even better looking.
Two problems with consensus as a management style:

- lack of consensus leads to inaction

- consensus can lead to mediocre decisions

Many stories in management case studies and books like those from Lencioni. A powerful alternative is "disagree-and-commit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disagree_and_commit
"Dominate" seems a little off. Feels to me like said AI tools are merely an augmentation, and will have a push on the spectrum from hand-animator to curator. In the end I think it will probably come down to taste, which comes down to whatever floats the boat.
I agree, but what I'm saying is, it only generates the numbers once and then sorts them 500 times. Yes it's a flawed measurement because it measures the generation time + 500 sorts, but the time to generate the numbers is probably minuscule compared to the sorting.

There are many more flaws, as you say, the biggest flaw is the stable vs unstable sort comparison, but it looks like the article author (not OP) has fixed it half an hour ago and updated the article.
My dad was a naval architect, so I can answer that one. Drawing was done on translucent paper (tracing paper). If you had to copy another drawing, you could just slide it under your current drawing and position a spline to match the line.

Once the drawing was done, it was brought to a copy shop that used a special machine to copy it to a paper that turned blue when exposed to light (hence the term blueprint - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint).

The original drawing on tracing paper was then carefully archived, and more blueprints could be made out of it as needed.
Television will kill movies because people don’t have to leave their homes. The entertainment industry is doomed because people now have social media. Recruiters won’t have jobs any more because we have LinkedIn. Restaurants are obsolete because anyone can learn to cook with YouTube.

I work in an animation adjacent field and this is hogwash. What happens when the person responsible for the creative content says “I don’t like the way this part of the sky looks in the background”? Or “The way this character falls down the stairs is too violent and not funny enough”? Who’s going to sit there with the AI and make it do the thing that someone has asked for? It’s not going to be the director or producer because they have too many other things to do. They will delegate that task to someone. Is that person an animator? Does it matter that they’re working with an AI instead of moving keyframes around?
I like opinionated people and sources in general because, even if I ultimately don’t agree, it helps to clarify the dialectics present in the landscape of options.
I want to make the far-reaching conclusion that even if something is MIT-licensed, because it was able to be developed and openly licensed and released to the public, at minimum the derived work must also be open (not MIT).
Also posting anonymously, for obvious reasons. They say narcissists can't change because either they're unaware of their plight or they "embrace" it. Yet I have many narcissistic personality traits, I'm aware of it, and I hate it. I try to correct myself but it's not working well.

Some examples. The minute someone "crosses" me (or I feel they have, even if they haven't) I completely remove myself from the relationship. That doesn't work too well for jobs, romance, or friendship. I can become extremely aggressive when someone who I feel should be paying attention to me, doesn't (typically, a bored bank teller). I have strong road rage. I never make myself vulnerable, never say what I really think or how I really feel.

In general I consider that I deserve everything, and should be on top of the world. Since I'm a nobody, the space between what is and what should be is incredibly hard to bear. I hate everyone but the person I hate the most is me.

It's easy to identify what needs to change, but very difficult to act upon a specific behavior in the heat of the action.
Also worth noting: default JS `Array.sort()` converts everything to strings and compares them lexically -- so 80 comes before 9. It's a little faster to sort them as numbers: `.sort((a, b) => a - b)` takes me around 40 seconds in Chrome (11 seconds in Firefox).
On Self-Delusion and Bounded Rationality (2001)
I believe the argument is not that X should be funded over Y. Rather, the argument is that a theory should have a clear path to producing empirical evidence in order to receive serious funding. Otherwise, the money is guaranteed to be wasted. There are a million different models one could devise to fit any given number of parameters. Without empirical evidence, it’s impossible to pick one. That’s the argument.

And the fact that we’ve gone from “the layman couldn’t possibly understand the science” to “it doesn’t cost that much any way” is telling. How about a good reason to keep doing this type of research at all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming
I suppose it depends on what you define "editor time" to be. Importing an asset into a scene live appears to be pretty seamless, at least in comparison to preprocessing stages of yore.
I would assume that the benefits are in having coworkers that fill in the gaps in your own business skills. For example: finding clients, invoicing, server maintenance, customer service, training, documentation, implementation consultants. There are a variety of job skills that one person will not have or want to contribute 100% of the time that are valuable jobs for junior or more senior coworkers.

If you are paying someone to do any of these jobs, you are doing it out of income that you've paid taxes on. If they are a part of your cooperative then it comes out of the businesses own funds pretax. There are also incentives to share in other resources, such as buildings, child care and other invisible labor that we normally place little value on.

Also, some cooperative companies will only outsource work to other cooperative groups.

Not to mention the camaraderie of working with people with similar goals in a noncompetitive environment where they value your success.
Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco? (2020)
What latency are you trying to do? Will the professor being communicating with the students while doing this? Will the students all have the same bandwidth, or will you want multiple renditions (low, med, high quality levels)?

If you want AV1 you will not be able to use RTMP. The protocol is orphaned/deprecated, so avoid if possible!

If I was building it this is what I would do, and my reasoning.

* For capture + encoding I would use OBS. You will want to use something that is easy for users to install configure. Professors will also have lots of custom requirements when it comes to layout etc... it will be tempting to do a ffmpeg command directly, but it will fall apart quick I believe.

* To get AV1 out of OBS I would use FFMPEG output. I would have it send RTP. RTP is used to carry video in a sub-second manner. This is the same protocol that WebRTC uses. You know have AV1 + low latency.

* Then for users to watch I would use WebRTC. That will allow them to watch in their web browser. Conceptually it will be like this https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples/rtp-to-w... this takes the RTP packets and puts them in the browser.

Lots of great projects exist that you could use for 'RTP -> WebRTC' like https://galene.org/ and https://livekit.io/ I would suggest checking them all out!

If you have more questions/want to talk to people in the video space always happy to chat on https://pion.ly/slack :)
Interesting concept… it seems diving is only about 1/4 as dangerous as the average other risks people take in a day, so it seems pretty inconsequential in overall risk unless you are a professional and dive multiple times daily for years on end, but I would guess a pro had less risk per dive due to skill.
Only two companies were mentioned, Atom Bank and Awin - neither of which I would describe as 'corporations'?

I think it's a gimmick that some businesses will use for publicity purposes and nothing more.

Anyone looking for a bit of an SEO boost for their website can feel free to jump on board...
Narcissism is not self-love. It's a reaction formation to hide the opposite.

People who genuinely like themselves aren't usually emotional extremists. Challenges and setbacks don't obliterate their sense of self and they can deal with them in a mature way. They're capable of empathy for others and don't need to perpetually one-up themselves with condescension, bullying, criticism, and psychological and emotional attacks.

Not so much narcissists, who are notorious for all of the above.

Self-esteem does change over time, but not always in predictable ways. Young people aren't necessarily more narcissistic than older people, or vice versa. The common factors seem to be embedded shame and a kind of terrified sense of impotence that can only be alleviated by constant and excessive praise, attention, and reassurance.
Twitter is taking on YouTube and Substack
1989, and it certainly isn't fiction.

We just didn't have Twitter back then.

But scores of FTP/NNTP servers rushed out the photos, of which many have seen.
There are plenty of technical comments here, but I have to say I got a great laugh from this post. I have dealt with many of the absurdities state side, so I can relate to your experience. By the time I got to the words Windows XP Screensaver, I was laughing so hard I couldn't read anymore. After finishing, I bookmarked you. Looking forward to more. Thanks.
I think that it's really good to examine yourself, and to keep trying to understand and work out the truth of your particular situation. I don't know anything about you, so please take this with a grain of salt, but the fact that you are serious about inducing a narcissistic collapse tells me that you probably don't need one.

It might even be damaging for you. Maybe you're depressed, or have self-esteem issues, alcoholism, addiction, co-dependency, developmental issues, or any of a number of other things going on.

Re: Narcissism-lite -- it's been pretty well established that a small amount of narcissism can be a good thing, while too much is a bad thing. How to know the difference? Results. Does your life work for you? Do you have some friends that you can talk with about this? Or maybe a therapist?
The original Xv6 code uses the x86 IO ports for example[1][2][3], it would be easy to implement something similar for the soft CPU I imagine. Some good info about IO ports in the answers to this[4] SO question.

[1]: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/eeb7b415dbcb12cc...

[2]: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/eeb7b415dbcb12cc...

[3]: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/out

[4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3215878/what-are-in-out-...
Speeding Up Inhaled Vaccines
Anything animated isn't supported as well, only static meshes.
Related story from a few months ago: "Hollywood’s visual effects crisis": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32421538
Strongly disagree (and of course disagree with calling anyone who disagrees with you an idiot..).

Everyone I've met who was toxic in my adult life seemed to me to have their toxicity coming from something more complex than that. Narcissists seems to be people who are desperately trying to assert something about themselves and constitutionally incapable of self-awareness. Bullies seem to be threatened by how someone else acts according to different values than them, and their weak emotional reaction to it is to try to change it, or punish the person who doesn't see the world they do, because their existence threatens the bully's tenuous validity.

It's convenient to say that people are just doing it for advantage but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny if you talk to these people. It also doesn't match their actual behavior at all, since they rarely gain any actual advantage (in wealth, health, or life, for instance). If anything it's usually totally obvious to people around them and alienates them from "healthy" people.
>People who write as though not only can they predict the future

Well, many people can and have, with reasonable arguments that panned out 20, 30 and even 100 years later. It's not metaphysical prediction, like an oracle, it's just reading trends.

>Anyone who thinks they can predict the future is full of shit.

In any case, we didn't learn anything about what will or will not happen in this comment, or about the feasibility of predicting the future even. But we did learn that you strongly dislike the idea that it's possible.

Also, as if "5 years" is some big leap in predicting an industry change, or technology trend. E.g. I could tell you already in 2007 than in 5 years touch-based smartphones like iPhone will dominate. I could you in 1995 that this "world wide web" thing will go huge.

That kind of prediction is basically what any businessman does when they make an investment in infrastructure or direction that will pay for itself in 5 years or more...
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Thinking about a system a half-step up from hose clamps holding 100psi of pressure, which if it pulls apart will rapidly release hundreds of gallons of water does not inspire confidence. And since the house is already plumbed with copper and I know how to sweat joints, I might as well continue that.

I'm about to use PEX for the first time on my hydronic heating system, which is only ~20psi and limited volume (autofill valves are an anti-pattern). Maybe I'll fall in love, who knows.
Dynamics aren't in the source material.
This (minus the bulletproof glass) is how most stores worked in Soviet union. Most of the wares were behind the counter and you asked for what you wanted and the counter person would give it to you. I guess robbery was not a big risk but theft was.

Or e.g. in Seattle in an otherwise-normal store they have alcohol under lock and key and you have to get an employer to give it to you - a hybrid model.
This post take a wealth of information from the book "Our Final Warning" from Mark Lynas (duely quoted), but it is definitively not an ad. It is exactly what the title implies: an estimation of the consequences I will live through.
Runs fine on Rocky 8.6 as well.
Nazi rhetoric is so lazy and reddited. And your comment is useless without examples.

With anti-free-speech advocates continually trying to expand the definition of what constitutes "hate speech", we could be talking about totally different things.
“Technocratic” serfdom is already kind of a thing depending on how you look at it, that’s the joke.

As for what has historically led to “utopia for the ultra rich” being less-than-infinite in duration… *gestures to wars, petty infighting, boredom, gross incompetence, bad luck*

The current generation of the ultra rich might see that and argue “Aha! But we will have basically used a neural network to generate a society based off of ‘what if Kafka wrote Robocop Star Trek prequel fanfic’! Problem solved!” to which I’d say “cool”
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I can’t help but get the feeling that people seem to love throwing this word (narcissism) around so much because it helps them believe that they aren’t somewhere on the narcissism spectrum. I think most people are.
I didn't say anything about Twitter.
You described an estranged parent who professes no awareness of why they were cut off, while at the same time demonstrating they do have an idea.

The comment you reply to describes people who label others as narcissists for frivolous reasons (they disagree with people, want to dehumanize or blame, want to protect their own ego).

We haven't established that they're the same people or correspond with one another. I think both groups simultaneously exist. I know I've witnessed the second group in real life, though I wouldn't dare claim it's everybody who says they've been abused by a narcissist.
Normally with union done right, you would have voice in management. Problem is all you see is non-working unions ( union busting etc also from sibling comments)

Thats why I commented union done good from the beginning.
The ABET accreditation thing is interesting. Last time I looked into it there are even some things that require it for CS (becoming a patent lawyer for example).

Here's. the first job I found when I searched for local MechE jobs.

>This position requires a BSME or MSME from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission-approved program with a strong academic background and interest in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid

https://www.monster.com/job-openings/-winter-2022-entry-leve...

When searching for local EE jobs. Out of the first 5 results, 1 required a PE, 3 required a degree from an ABET accredited program, and 1 just required an EE degree without specifying ABET.

>Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related degree from an ABET accredited program.

https://lensa.com/staff-electrical-engineer-substation-chatt...
There probably is, but its symptoms are very much intermingled with those of ADHD and a whole slew of mental conditions.

Reading the article, I recognized a collapse in myself after a lost a deeply-valued job in a horribly-unfair way. I was fired after a new sysadmin pulled drives from a still-active storage array, after I told them to pull drives from the shut down array. The reason given was that I didn't write a change request, when there was no change control system in place.

I met some of the conditions in the article, but none of the abusive-towards-others ones - I didn't accuse my then-wife of being responsible, I didn't gaslight or lash out verbally. I withdrew into myself and became deeply depressed and anxious.

Back on topic after too much personal sharing, I think everyone has aspects of NPD, just as everyone is on a scale of other personality traits. The more we understand these scales and spectrums, the better we'll be able to deal with negative events, I feel.
It’s true, similarly people self-diagnosing their parents or other family members and friends as narcissists seems to be a quite common and probably unhealthy recent trend as well.

In this case though I wasn’t saying the people calling this leadership are narcissists, but I do think it’s a sign they are confused that the behaviours they are calling leadership are also symptoms of a narcissistic meltdown.
Title slightly edited because I think the focus on abortion specifically is missing the bigger point - that police have warrant-free access to pretty much "whatever location data they want," via the normal back channels of third party data extraction from apps, data brokers, and companies who won't talk to you if you're not a police department with a checkbook.

If you can draw a box around an abortion clinic and follow phones to and from, you can do that around around literally anything else - a church, a protest, an activist gathering, a crypto meetup, etc.

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that the weaponization of consumer tech against humans is basically complete - that there's no way to reasonably, safely, privately use much of any part of the modern tech ecosystem that we've (handwave around HN goes here, myself included) have built. And I'm considering what that looks like, since the older systems we used to use are long since gone (even POTS is now high latency digitally encoded stuff in most areas now). I can use VPNs, Tor, Qubes, etc... but at what point is the system I'm attempting to interact with simply not worth interacting with?

I don't have great answers, just something I've been trying to think through.
Why do you think it has been ignored? Does your account still exist after deactivating it and waiting 30 days? If so, care to share some proof?

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dea...
Slightly OT:

"Tax rates are so high that a 20% pay cut would be a much smaller real terms pay decrease."

This is about the difference between your marginal tax rate and your average tax rate (and the progressive tax bands that cause the difference), not about tax rates being high.

If income tax rates were 90% at all income levels, this would be high, but a 20% cut in gross income would result in a 20% cut in net income.
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A few years ago when ML could only dream creepy dog faces, I would not believe that it could generate coherent images with decent framing and composition, correct proportions, realistic light and shadows, depth of field, excellent taste for palettes, and even good faces without uncanny valley — and hands and text being the hard parts.

So this time I'm willing to believe that the small morphing clips and blurry NeRFs are going to grow into whole realistic 3d scenes.
One thing many people don’t get is that narcissism isn’t confidence. It’s the extreme absence of confidence. The narcissist has a giant hole and is addicted to second hand validation to fill it. Like many addicts they become hostile and aggressive when the supply of the thing they're addicted to is interrupted.

Someone who is actually confident doesn't need a constant stream of validation from other people to feel good about themselves.
For the Author promising artists losing their jobs, I see a lot of uniformly grotesque animations and artwork being generated…
Good point, in fact I retract my statement because of it. I was only thinking of the vowels.
Well there is much more that goes on to make and uphold these decisions. It's not like one person somewhere arbitrarily made the call, it's a massive organization ostensibly overseen by Congress.
Only if you have a history of sending crazed writings/manifestos to newspapers and family.
To write functional code you (usually) have to understand a lot of things (the problem you're solving, the overall architecture, the implications of your code).

I don't think any of the current AI tech demonstrates any kind of "understanding." The image-generators are closest, but if AI-generated images were code, almost all of them would be unusable.

I think coding jobs are safe until AGI.

That being said, I think copilot and similar can fill in a lot of blanks, because we often solve the same problems repeatedly. (I haven't used them FWIW). They're like a library of solutions, not a brain that invents a new solution.
What makes you think it is fiction?
>So Olric has client implementations in all major programming languages.
It's not just that he blocked a public path with his signs. He also had his employees harass these men, got them arrested for trespassing, and is suing them for millions of dollars.
I think the author missed that website about HN users predicitions
really? five down-votes because I sighed?

If you're going to down-vote me, down-vote me because I mentioned Elon is a human being, with human flaws and human strengths and not the resurrection of Supply-Side-Jesus.
"that included"

The consultation was on the ULEZ expansion only. Without more context justifying the dismissal of the consultation, this is clearly an undemocratic move.
> though I wouldn't dare claim it's everybody who says they've been abused by a narcissist.

To be very clear, neither would I.
https://archive.ph/D2k0q