skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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wrtyler:
I’ve been writing a lot of new custom colors for Stud.io 52. As such, I use the Blender Cycles Manual a lot for reference. However, the online manuals available for Cycles only go back to version 2.79. I think Eyesight is based on some version of 2.78 because even using the older versions of the manual there are still parameters listed that are not available in Eyesight.

So…I’d like to know on which version of Cycles Eyesight is based, and if there is a Cycles manual available for that particular version.

RESPONSE :

LazyDodo:
Got bored, did some digging in their binary, they built using some of our our svn libraries (I know it’s our libs since the paths embedded for some of the source files are local to my computer :slight_smile: ) which makes it easy to track down

they ship openimageio 1.7.15 which means the code is likely from somewhere in between 2017-06-04 and 2018-08-27 which is indeed around the 2.79 time frame.

It would have been nice if they kept the code opensource, so it could get all the improvements blender makes easily, but they seemingly chose not to go that way. which is somewhat strange since they clearly lifted the GPL licensed bf_blenlib [1] so the closed source nature of eyesight is odd to say the least.

[1] the executable contains strings like Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to Blender installation Dir! , Error! Could not get the Windows Directory - Defaulting to first valid drive! Path might be invalid! and BLI_dynstr_append text too long or format error. that can only could have come from bf_blenlib
You are continuing your strategy of throwing chaff. I asked you what diplomatic solution can be put into play now. Neither side is looking for Minsk II at this juncture.
Broken download links for Node.js
I'm having problems with the Node.js website. It seems like a bunch of links are broken, and I can't even download the Node.js versions I need for my pipeline jobs. Every time I try to download something, I get a 404 error.

Anyone else also experiencing these issues?
What would you be using ethnicity for? I don't think they're making a case for some sort of trans-racial ethnic self-identification being used in science as a replacement for race.

I think you substitute race with precision. If a cluster of different genes or characteristics are commonly found together, say which ones you're talking about, how often they're found together (as opposed to apart), and why you think that's relevant. Talking about race is honestly often ultimately handwaving in the vague direction of 19th century biblical scholars.
Ethnicity is just one of many factors, and is related to your culture, which is related to how you live your life, which can definitely be a factor. But yes, if your "ethnic" groups look like [1], ethnicity is really just another word for race,
because you are not asked the bullet points, which certainly are ethnic (English vs. African, for example), but the headers (White vs. Black).

[1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-gui...
I've mentioned something like this in other comments across HN.

For me, I actually really like that human content is recycled. The discussions around AI, art, and humans always talk about art as a separate product produced by the human. I feel like many pieces of art (not all, for example zombie realism) has a piece of the human inside of it.

An example I used in a comment in this post is Raymond Carver. His short stories are about blue-collar men in the mid-west. Carver was a blue-collar man from the mid-west. I find that interesting, and I liked that he pulled from his life experience to write stories.

I get very excited when I realize that the work I'm engaging with is recycled in some way. Like a song's chorus sharing lines from a separate artist, or a style that seems similar to a different writer I know. I love that. It makes me feel more connected to the creator and makes me like them more because we share similar interests.

An example that comes to mind for me are the manga Hunter x Hunter and Jujutsu Kaisen. The creator of Jujutsu Kaisen loved HxH and it 100% shows. The crazy powers, the complicated fights, the walls of texts explaining what happened in a fight, etc. All of those come from HxH and I love the creator was inspired by it. Sometimes reading Jujutus Kaisen makes me feel like I'm bonding with the creator over our mutual love of HxH.

With AI created work, I feel like we're missing the human touch. And as I pointed out in another comment here - I don't think it's hard to bring it back. Show me the prompts and the chat log. Why did you choose those prompts? Why did you ask the AI to write in X style? How does that X style make you feel?

On the other hand, maybe the AI prevents some of the human touch from coming through. I imagine much of the recycling that comes from humans is unintentional. The song you wrote on guitar has that riff not because you're copying a band, but because you've listened to so much 90s indie rock that you just make what you love - without realizing it.

Maybe in the future this changes. I'd love to see someone spend some time with an AI and mold it to such a way that what it produces can emulate the user's love and interests. Don't forget to show and share the chat log!

[EDIT]: To add onto this, I've actually done the above. I've played some text adventure games in the past, and I got ChatGPT to play with me. I told it that I had stat points (Health Points, Magic Points), that I had two types of attacks, and that there are three types of monsters. That experience invigorated me to write paragraphs on world building - just so I can feed it into ChatGPT and live in that world.

I seem some instances that are similar like this - but people just end up not sharing the prompts they feed into ChatGPT. I'd love to see those prompts. I've love to see what someone did to get ChatGPT to act a certain way.
From the comments: "Protip: don’t try to be fancy and provide a local REFCLK from an independent oscillator. Always use the host’s REFCLK as it may be spread spectrum modulated for EMI compliance in most PC systems."

Someone handed me a non-functional prototype system a few years ago (the first time I'd encountered PCIe), and it had a local REFCLK and an upstream Android-style host which, indeed, had enabled spread-spectrum clocking. Took me two miserable weeks to figure that one out.
I don't know, I see that driving behavior more often from born and raised relatively conservative Denverites who are pissed that Denver has become a bigger city.
They did get quite a lot, but you need majority vote in the senate to shoot down new laws. In practical terms they can delay laws but probably can’t shoot down anything. Netherlands is a country of polderen (1).

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model
To be fair, there is a clear definition of ethnicity as "the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent".

So while an individual cannot decide who they descended from, they can choose whether or not to accept a set of cultural norms. People routinely change religions, learn other languages, or follow other traditions outside the ethnic cultural norms they were born into.

The TFA states that ethnicity is only one of many potential "population descriptors" and recommends that researchers "use multiple descriptors rather than a single, overly broad category".
If anyone has tried MJ and become frustrated at the chaos of losing their work in the various channels I strongly recommend you make your own server and invite the MJ bot to it. You can create channels to help organise your stuff but making your own server makes MJ almost a pleasure to use.

I don't think I could use it if I had to use the main public server.
Can you explain how it's orthogonal when async/await is cooperative and virtual threads are pre-emptive?
“Race” is significantly more fuzzy than “species”.

There are edge cases where people will argue where to draw lines between species. However, it’s profoundly challenging to draw lines between “races” in the first place.
IDK, if my job says "Hey, 4 day work week but you're not getting the yearly increase," I think I would be okay with that honestly. I think a lot of people would actually.
The article is a commentary on this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05834-x
head reads CSV row that has multiple lines.

Miller is being offered as "like awk, sed, head.." (emphasis on head - mine) and yes it offers more, but it does not behave "like" the *nix tools it refers to.
> Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users.

Nonsense. It failed to attract developers because it was an unsure new platform so of course most of them wouldn't spend hours to develop for it. They were always going to need convincing (with money of course), which took Google too long, but around a year or so in there were multiple heavy hitters in the form of Red Dead Redemption 2, Hitman, Ubisoft's entire catalogue (and an Ubisoft+ integration), EA Games' most new games, Destiny 2, alongside a ton of indie games. By the time Stadia shut down, it didn't really have a catalogue problem. Problem is, Google bungled the rollout and took too long to start doing this - they banked on the initial release being highly successful, but didn't start massively investing in games until later on.

For gamers, fear of Google shutting it down played a part, of course. But so did all the extremely negative coverage, from everywhere, that Stadia is dead on arrival which only reinforced that fear. Had Google actually told everyone their shutdown plan (reimburse everyone for all games), a lot of gamers would have overcome those fears (what was there to lose, really?).

Technically, the platform was amazing. To this day the best UX by far of out cloud gaming platforms. Quality upgrades were lacking though.

To sum up, Google failed in their strategy and marketing. Had they 1) promised to reimburse everyone in case the platform was shut down before X years 2) given away Stadia Premiere packs to anyone they can (like YouTube Premium subscribers, etc.) 3) enticed big studios to port games, all things they eventually ended up doing, Stadia would have been a roaring success and would be undergoing a hardware refresh at the moment. Instead, it just reinforces that Google sucks at b2c and shouldn't be trusted.
> simple case

that's just it though, the last example is not a simple case, hence why the last example is awkward by the commenters own admission. command line tools are fine, but you need to know when to set the hammer down and pick up the chainsaw.
Didn't Bricklink make the Studio software prior to Lego's 2019 acquisition? That doesn't completely justify Lego, but I think it is another bit of relevant nuance to the situation.
https://archive.ph/zUwyS
There's quite a few instances where they take plastic and incorporate it into bricks, cement or ground cover, e.g. https://phys.org/news/2022-03-trash-kenyan-inventor-plastic-... if you don't mind videos, Business Insider has a decent series on subjects like this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmur3Z0Afau7p-Au2E1uY...
So fifteen years later, here we are where almost zero people in harshly-competitive industries will voluntarily change their core inputs; combine that with pure economic self-interest from Oil and Gas, and .. woe to you, gentle reader.
Most websites contain swear words. The reason they don't on maybe Tiktok or YT is because those companies demonetize accounts that use it too heavily.

Cursing is perfectly acceptable, as long as one can acknowledge the difference in consequences between cursing in your own home vs on someone else's private property.
Does being able to do something mean you can do it perfectly 100% of the time? I'm not sure who was supposed to be unreasonable in your imaginary conversation.
This is totally wrong as we in the developed countries are emitting so much CO2 and are eating too much meat so soy is planted everywhere, just to feed animals.
> She had to step back from public campaigning last year because of death threats. She was told the same fate awaited her as Pim Fortuyn, a populist leader assassinated days before the 2002 Dutch general election.
Commentator's voice: it had not.
Breaking Down Toolformer
An adventure with SLOs, generic Prometheus alerts, and complex PromQL queries
There are several ways to achieve climate change. Two big sides currently are energy conservatism or energy progressionism; Either you save energy, drive less, etc. or you embrace energy sources like nuclear.

The hypocrisy comes in when you don't want to nuclear power, don't want to drive less and also want climate change.
Periodic reminder to keep multiple offline backups of anything you actually care about.

Although, you should also think about whether you really need to keep more than a few dozen or at most a few hundred photos of your total life.
To me, creative fine woodworking is making a cool idea based on the world around me and experiences I've had that balances engineering needs with artistic form.

Then I spend 95% of my hobby time tediously sanding boards and applying finish and this is NOT the fun part of my hobby.

I will say the only time I've gotten compensation directly as been for the latter because nobody likes doing that stuff.

I'd say AI will make creatives into micromanaging middle managers, the type that gets way too involved in a critique of your every decision is still going to micromanage, they'll just be harassing an AI instead of humans.

Fundamentally the creative act of making book cover art has always been specification. You can say to an artist "make me a book cover looking like ..." or you can hire a guy and give him no direction and trust him to decide what to do. But the creative act was the specifying, not the mechanics of turning that idea into printing ready art.

Another problem you run into is AI is as currently produced, a groupthink enforcement technology, and most people will be turned off by that. The blandest least offensive corporate dining experience is likely McDonalds. How much do hipster foodies prefer going to McDonalds over ... anywhere else on the planet? AI can only create the ideal big mac, and you can make money shipping big macs, but only selling to poor people, everyone else wants something else, even if in a strict corporate inhuman sense its inferior in every way to a big mac.
>How is it better that SQL for these tasks on tabular data?

It has far better handling of a CSV/TSV file on the command line directly and is compasable in shell pipelines.

>My point, if one wants cat, sort, sed, join on tabular data, SOL is exactly that.

SQL is a language for data in the form of tables in relational databases.

While it can do sorting or joining or some changes, it is meant for a different domain than these tools, which other constraints, other concerns, and other patterns of use...

You don't need to load anything to a db, for starters.

You also normally don't care for involving a DB in order to use in a shell script, or for quick shell exploration.

You also can't mix SQL and regular unix userland in a pipeline (well, with enough effort you can, but it's not something people do or need to do).
Further down in the article, the answer is given. They are recommending that journals, funding bodies, etc, start to require scientists to define their chosen categories and justify the usage.
Humans seem terrible at it in very different ways, and definitely don't get as good at other parts before getting good at hands.
How is that at all surprising in a time of less globalism and internet penetration?

People in small town of course know each other and use word of mouth to find candidates, for example.

What were they supposed to do, put on an advert on the national newspapers for every vacancy in the country?
I really like the goat farming quote, as we all have to start somewhere. Still, the takeaway isn't that you can find a song on the internet and claim it to be your own creation.
I really don't miss running my own kit (colocated or directly owned)

I don't miss cycling around Manchester on a Bank Holiday weekend because I'd miscalculated how much network cabling I'd need for an upgrade.

I don't miss keeping a spreadsheet of storage so I knew when to order disks, negotiating with suppliers for cost of new disks because I was buying a slightly smaller bulk than AWS

I don't miss having to explain to folk in datacenter support that they could take the disks out of my failed server and put them in a new server if they had one available

I don't miss the day the single point of failure in the rack failed and everything was offline while I waited for a new doohicky to be shipped to me because it didn't make sense to keep spares of everything on hand

I don't miss trying to figure out if some new generation of server hardware would work for or would fit in my rack as manufacturers stopped making the kit we did use

I'm not going to say every workload should run in the cloud (cliche nod to StackOverflow) but it certainly isn't free to get all of the benefits
> Rather, human genetic variation is the result of many forces—historical, social, biological—and no single variable fully represents this complexity.

Would it not be correct to state that "race" is a social construction intended as a stand-in to identify sets of interconnected factors which impact a particular population, such as historical, social, and biological?

Is the issue that the word "race" has too much baggage, or that the very concept of "race" isn't useful? It sounds to me, based on the argument in the article, that the concept has some usefulness, even if it has been misused in such ways to have significant baggage. It is necessarily less precise than defining each variable independently in a matrix.
Does this mean that White supremacy doesn't exist as well?
I've been using the same Brother laser - HL-2035 - since 2008. It's followed me through many, many house moves, and a couple of new toner cartridges. I'd love to get a wifi enabled one, but since this one just won't die, I've still got it. 15 years of printing once or twice a month.

The only thing I can't really understand is how Brother are still able to make these so cheaply. You'd think the market would have been saturated many times over.
Obviously. I just think avoiding the arm is easier than trying to precisely move one of those tokens a few degrees around a rotating surface.
<said whilst grunting as if working against ludicrous speed>

Reflexive ... reactions ... suppressing...
> Critics have said that plan isn’t sufficient, saying any Chinese-owned company must comply with demands from Beijing if called upon.

As if this is any different from being a US company which must comply with demands from Washington if called upon. Just the type of hypocritical propaganda to be expected from WSJ. Chinese tyranny is abhorrent but US tyranny is Freedom™.
Thanks for the comment. We totally agree with your suggested approach.

The reason we went for the example and set up in the blog post is that most people aren’t as familiar with the very basics. Therefore, we wanted to set up a plausible example (which is why we deployed ES instead of just a couple of busyboxes) and kept the examples self-contained.

Btw, really liked your link. Great blog post.
Human DMs will frequently respond to a player's mood, and will fudge rolls to be more (or less) favorable to the player if they feel that players aren't having fun. The only real difference here is that GPT couldn't respond to the mood, and had to be told to fudge the rolls.
This argument might be made for CO2 emissions, but nitrogen emissions are mostly a local problem.
try googling "<race> person face" where <race> is "white", "asian" or "black" and you get pretty representative results of what people mean by "race".

(same if you do "dog breed" for example)
Oh don't think they said this explicitly, but plenty of people said they weren't worried about AI art because it couldn't even draw hands which kind of implies that they won't be fixed imminently.
In the case of games, anything that doesn't mean losing access to an account stops you from being able to play games you already bought. So, GOG wouldn't need to change much, but Steam might. Wouldn't have to mean shipping physical media.

Or they can just stop using terms like "buy" and otherwise implying ownership, instead making it clear you're just leasing the game.
The value of science (1955)[pdf]
If a thing can't be defined either specifically or usefully, maybe it should stay in the humanities rather than invade science?
Again, strong selection bias, but yes. THC stays in your system for a long time. It can take a while to figure out if the issue is a primary psychotic disorder, like Schizophrenia, that has been exacerbated by THC or if it's only drug-induced. I occasionally see cases that appear to be completely accounted for by THC, but at a far lower rate than meth-induced psychosis.
Are you suggesting that the content they have consumed is not part of their experience?
Stupid purpose, made by AI or not shouldn't matter. What matters is creativity and if as human you can't beat AI's then you should question yourself.
I think the most important point that I don't see discussed is that we shouldn't be compromising our ability to make food until we have viable non-Nitrogen based alternative fertilizers of comparable cost. Food is already too expensive, and now they want to crush poor people even more?

I think the farmer's have a good point here. I don't think the people dismissing this as farmers being anti-climate change realize the implications.
Terrible take.
"Hey check it out, this new architecture can sometimes solve X"

"HAH! Here is a counterexample where X is not solved, so it can NOT!"
Seems like it’ll be on the wrong side of history when AI “people” have rights. Then these badges are like speciesist? Think of Data on Star Trek. He can’t make content with a human badge?
FOSDEM was as busy as ever this year unfortunately. BTW were you unhappy with the replies last time? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34265385
Most environmental action being taken out seems to be exclusively acts of religious-like penance. I think people's metric for whether or not we're doing something about the environment is "does this make day-to-day life harder than it was before?" Nothing to do with the actual effectiveness, no solutions for the ginormous populations in poor countries that are burning all their trash or throwing it into the ocean, or pumping ludicrous amounts of smog into the atmosphere until the sky is orange. Only useless solutions that let college-educated Westerners pat themselves on the back like paper straws, plastic bag bans, complaining about gas stoves, etc.
HN is dead. Just look at these comments. Dang, nuke the thread.
This ignores that the selection of the generated results being published is part of the creative process. AIs will not learn off an iid sampling of AI output, but of one that is extensively shaped by human preference. And because humans like novelty this will never converge as rhose preferences are a moving target.
From what I can find, Amazon Drive is shutting down at the end of 2023 but Photos is not. So you've got until end of year to download non-photo/non-video files from your Drive before they're gone.

https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=23943055011
Hit it with mercury. Get the speed and angle right, and you'll speed up the rotation, increase the gravity, and give it a moon.
I also wrote a small free application for drawing (quick) maps, real-time collab, moving tokens around etc. It has a small but happy user base :)

GameScape (https://gamescape.app)

Basically I wanted something to approximate pen, grid paper and physical tokens during the pandemic when I was playing with some old high school friends remotely. Roll20 was just too clunky.

I’ve got a new startup now (unrelated) so I haven’t had much time to work on it. If anyone wants to work on TTRPG tools (I’ve considered OSS this, or maybe even paying for dev) let me know!