skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's by and large mathematical software, like all renderers. So it isn't interactive in a manner like software that allows moving a character model and sequencing frames to make an animation. It's a kind of a 'kernel' in some sense for animation and 3D modelling software.

The source files contain the algorithms/computations needed to solve various equations that people involved in Computer Graphics research have came up with to simulate various physical - optical phenomena (lighting, shadows, water reflections, smoke, waves) in the most efficient (fast) and and usually photorealistic sense for a single image (static scene) already created (character/landspace models, textures) in a program.

Since there are various different techniques for the simulation of one specific phenomenon, it's interesting to peek into the tricks used by a very large animation studio.
Thanks for the refreshing honesty! The law industry already seems to use (dumb) automation, no wonder they're so afraid of AGI replacing them.
Yup! Most just do it via a small internal FDIC bank (it's easier for them to have a bank for other reasons anyway):

https://www.tdameritrade.com/investment-products/cash-soluti...

https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/atm-debit-card

Even vanguard can do it, but they don't LIKE to: https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/f...
You have "less war" when one side dominates and the other surrenders quickly. Two evenly-matched sides can continue fighting for decades.
> Ada has no ecosystem, and a lot of the ecosystem that does exist is proprietary,

Not no ecosystem, but yes it's way smaller... probably even smaller than Rust, yes.

> and it brings us back to point #2.

I seriously doubt it. Ada is supported directly in gcc; why would it have any worse platform coverage than anything else?
Docker was created by dotCloud for a different purpose than it ended up as. I think they are owed credit for what has become an incredibly elegant solution to many problems, and how great the user experience has always been.

Compare it to other corporate-managed tools like Terraform and Ansible. Both of them have horrible UX and really bad design decisions. Both make me hate doing my job, yet you can't not use them because they're so popular your company will standardize on them anyway. Docker, on the other hand, is a relative joy to use. It remains simple, intuitive, effective, and full of features, yet never seems to suffer from bloat. It just works well, on all platforms. There were a few years of pain on different platforms, but now it's rock solid.

And to be fair to them, their Moby project is pretty solidly open-source, and if Docker Inc dies, the project will continue.
So, you're 100% booked with no room for anything? Congratulations on your management for understaffing your team and expecting you to do 120% if something happens, they're saving up quite a bit of money.

You might want to start respecting your free time though, because they clearly don't give a shit about you.
Well, at least if you're gonna bash on Elastic provide some alternatives, we are running Elastic as a SIEM ingesting millions of records per day all for free (albeit we are in the process of aquiring a licence).
What will OpenAI do, sue? Okay but now it's out there.
People working together create wealth. That used to require cities. But remote work certainly doesn't advantage suburbs, since at least in my experience, remote workers are moving to rural areas.
How does it compare to CalyxOS?
Sort of but not really. Operating systems usually come with a mostly-known set of fonts, however major updates sometimes change or iterate on fonts. Also, installing certain Office and/or design software adds more fonts. But this is why people use such lengthy font stacks that look alike.
> 1 is something every CDN in the world already deals with.

Not exactly. For a normal CDN, your webpage HTML directs the client directly to the CDN server, which in theory already has the object. Only if it doesn't have the object does it need to go get it, but there isn't an extra lookup. The CDN does it's direction magic via DNS or IP routing, not with double lookups.
Could you name one? (Just to help us understand a real example)
Or, more recently, Elon Musk deciding that liabilities that Twitter took on before he purchased it no longer apply to Twitter under his ownership:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/twitters-landlor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/twitter-elon-m...
Okay, name one?
All the contractors around here push really hard to do the work without permits. It takes at least twice as long to finish with permits since there needs to be an inspection after each step that will get covered up by something else (and since much work is done unpermitted, many contractors forget to do this and have to redo work).

I always pull permits these days because of stupid stuff contractors have done; the horizontal duct run that was way out of spec was found by an inspector and I had to call 4 HVAC contractors before finding one that would do a quote that included permits...
There are several uses. They are (Edit: not, see below) used for post ordering, but do provide a reputation signal within the community for other users and moderators, provide a mild directional incentive towards producing quality, provide a way to gate certain features to longer, more experienced users such as downvoting or post flagging/vouching, and improve retention by adding the light gamification of “going for high scores”.
Ask HN: Can Silicon Valley disrupt academic publishing?
In the last one and a half month, the new Bing was released, a bank went bankrupt and the government took it over, OpenAI released a ChatGPT API and made it 10 times cheaper than the previous API. Also, GPT-4 was released. Lots of big changes in a few weeks.

In that same period, a paper that we published has been sent to reviewers, reviewed and, well, that’s it, I haven’t even gotten it back yet. The editor is writing a response letter, according to the submission system.

Could someone in Silicon Valley please disrupt academic publishing too? Would be nice. Thanks.
Marijuana decriminalization amd legalization was billed in part based on the notion that it wasn’t going to change people’s behavior, just decriminalize existing activity. At least in DC, it’s led to a noticeable uptick in marijuana use. You can smell it in the streets in many parts of the city, including in office buildings. It’s sad to see Germany go down the same road.
Make a new brutally honest but funny slogan for _____
Generated by GPT3.5 API

"Facebook: Where your privacy is just a suggestion."

"Twitter: Come for the memes, stay for the existential dread."

"LinkedIn: Where humblebragging is an art form."

"Microsoft: Testing your patience since the '90s."

"Apple: Making you feel superior one expensive product at a time."

"Nike: Because running away from your problems never looked so good."

"OpenAI: Making you question your intelligence one chatbot conversation at a time."

"IKEA: Where the furniture is cheap, but the assembly is priceless."

"Instagram: Making narcissism look cool since 2010."

"Google: We know what you did last summer...and every summer before that."

"Coca Cola: Making dentists rich since 1886."

"McDonald's: Where the meat may be questionable, but the fries never disappoint."
> I want more stories about startups that failed

Yes, this!

Success stories are fun and all, but there's not much that can be usefully learned from them. The failures are where the lessons are.

"Make your own mistakes, not someone else's."
Stop, you're making me blush!

On a more serious note, this is one of the main points that drove me to start such a blog. I've been the one learning from other people's posts for a long time. Now that I've reached a point where I can give back to the community, I'm really proud of the positive feedback I've got.

Moreover, while writing this took some time, I actually enjoyed going back over what I did and putting it in a way that I can share with the world. I can't stop thinking of ideas for future articles
By that definition literally everything is taxpayer funded and thus taxpayer funded is a meaningless term.
VS Code Monitors Full Command Line, CPU, Memory Usage of All Processes
I caught this suspicious process running under VS Code:

/usr/bin/ps -ax -o pid=,ppid=,pcpu=,pmem=,command=

I expected a rogue extension was responsible. Rather, the spyware ships with VS Code in this commit:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/307987fe383950b8f...

Screenshot of the running process:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrSfjwtWYAE02hC?format=jpg&name=...
This is very interesting! Super cool features, I'm sure many non-technical stakeholders will find value in this solution.

On the security aspect: users will need to trust that you are only querying the schemas, and that you are not accessing the data in the databases? My understanding is that (regardless of the SQL flavor) you cannot grant access to read only the names of the schemas/tables without granting access to the data they contain.

Do you envision larger (corporate) customers not being able to subscribe to your service because of these security concerns? Do you think there is any way in which you can bypass this limitation, e.g. by installing an on-premise client which holds the access credentials and never shares them with your servers?
“Neutrality” sounds simple, but I think it turns out to be nearly impossible.
They did talk about selling it. From their doc, they knew nothing about soccer before buying it. Just the idea of promotion/relegation meant like as a business opportunity they buy a team for 2m in the 5th division in England, if they make it to the Prem, it'll be worth 100-150m, and in 5-10 years maybe more, if Prem League appreciates in advertising value, etc. Will be interesting, they will likely move up to the next division this year or next. Still moving up the next 3 divisions will be the toughest.
One of the things that made it harder to convince other banks to buy SVB is the memory of 2008 when banks who bought other banks inherited all their liabilities and lawsuits.

> Why isn’t Dimon buying S.V.B.? He has complained about the headaches of buying Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual at the government’s behest in 2008, having spent years fighting litigation and paying fines for those firms’ bad behavior. Bank executives who were around back then remember that.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/03/se...

It's good to want banks to be punished for causing problems, but if that punishment also applies to people who try to rescue the bank, then nobody is going to try to solve the problems.
>Just like the constant annoying 'apologies' do not in any way signify the model actually feels sorry.

So your average corporation?

>I would say that the strings that are output by LLMs may fluently describe intent and purpose, but that actual intent requires a self awareness that utterly absent

The only reason I only partially/somewhat agree with this is current LLMs have no learning feedback loop as a means of short term actions to long term improvement. The moment that changes I'll take your statement and throw it in the trash bin of history. LLMs output have no (at least self-)purpose because they are just text output. The moment that text output goes to tooling, that tooling performs actions, and those actions are fed back into training the model then purpose is given. The self awareness loop is complete.
@signa11

If you are running *nix on your laptop, why not just run an Xserver on the Pi with the dual screen setup and use DISPLAY=server:0 to render to it?

I'm a bit confused why have the Xserver running on the laptop.
Damming water to Crimea and shelling civilians in Donbas for 8 years is hardly “unprovoked”. It might not be sufficient justification for such a deadly and destructive invasion but it’s certainly provocation.
> I mean, 30 days isn't enough time to find alternatives and migrate.

Write a script to iterate the images and push them to your own registry. This will buy you time in the event anything does dissapear.
In capitalism, you're always free to starve.
In Nazi Germany, you're always free to be executed or imprisoned for refusing orders.
In a perfect world regulation would be right-sized and not needlessly waste resources, but failing that I'll take "the billionaires make slightly less money but are less likely to crash the economy" over the inverse.
That can be part of the value-add, though for on-prem deployments, we never touch the credentials ourselves.

Not to sound like a consultant, but there's three value-adds I'd call out:

1. Handling the dialect, types, and connection modalities of many different databases. This takes a lot of time to build and there's a lot of nuance that's non-trivial to work through.

2. Replicating data and guaranteeing data integrity + reliability. There's again a lot of nuance here, especially once you start considering that data is eventually consistent in most sources, that you want to transfer it as efficiently as possible, etc.

3. Providing a clean UX that end-customers can use out of the box, such that the end-customer experience is clean and intuitive. We spend a lot of time thinking about how it makes sense for people to connect their data, so that our customers don't have to.

edit: fmt
I assume the free version is meant to be used as a trial to evaluate the quality of the client. There is a “Share HN Link” option for each comment where you can comment on the webpage. After using it for free for a year or so, I paid because it’s one of my favorite clients on iOS.
now we’re getting into weird philosophical questions: if every bank had sold these treasuries (realizing the loss) and used the proceeds to buy similar treasuries, their portfolio would be basically the same: same present value (obviously), and same to within a few percent future cashflows. at any layer above the balance sheet, these two worlds are difficult to distinguish. so what makes one “real” and the other not?
When you go to a tailor for a custom suit, do you double-check that he's taken accurate measurements?
> Reasons people give for why they failed are no more reliable than reasons they give for why they succeeded

100% true.

That's why when you learn about other ventures, successful or not, what the founders say are the important features aren't really the part that you should pay the most attention to.
Maybe SV leaders can collectively post on Twitter about how bad academic publishing is and hope the government makes some rules for them.
Didn't they use to let users download mp3s when they bought an album? Did that change?
It supports a subset of the operators (as mentioned in the release notes). I don’t think it’s broken for the ones that it does support though.
As a note, this is one reason to still keep some paper checks around for your FDIC accounts.

Because when SVB closed on Friday and reopened on Monday, you could have still used a paper check during that time and it would be honored; but online access may have been shut off.
Since Silicon Valley bank with fdic takeover, the "free" services will go away. Free central bank money is gone due to higher inflation and interest rates. Free open source tiers are going away.
Did the person you are responding to actually say "They were hiding their behavior... Therefore we don't need regulation?"

Does anyone say that?
One thing I would really appreciate any clarification on:

How did they create the virtual desktop that the mouse and keyboard could interact with as if it were a physical screen off to the side?

Edit: Wow @pcouy, thanks for the sub 2-minute reply! Cheers~ and kudos to you for creating a fantastically easy to read and entertaining writeup.
no, the highest level purpose of an economy is to ensure the survival and growth of the meta-organism that hosts it. it figures out the most efficient way to produce all the goods and services that power the meta-organism and allow it to survive.

the only reasons humans persist is because we are the best. if another country wages war with us, humans will be the winner no matter the outcome. but with AGI, humans wont always be the winner. even if we managed to create some kind of arrangement where the goods and services created by an automated economy were distributed to a group of humans, that would end very quickly because some other class of meta-organism, made into the meanest and fittest meta-organism by natural selection among the machines, a gnarled and grotesque living nightmare, would destroy that last enclave of humans perhaps without even realizing it or trying to. axiomatically, long term, your idea doesnt work.
The original question was:

> Is it so outrageous to say that a dog's life has less value than a human's?

The commenter I replied to said "yes"

So the commenter is saying that yes, it is outrageous to say that a dog's life has less value than a human's.

So that implies that it is outrageous to say that because a dog's life does not have less value than a human life. It has equal or greater value. I'm going to assume that the commenter means equal value.

So if a dog's life is equal in value to a humans, it follows we should dedicate as many resources to dog health as human health.

Is any of the above flawed?

> nor was any mention of values made.

We're talking about the relative value of human life vs dog here. The term 'value' has literally been mentioned. Values by definition are what we believe to be valuable. By answering "yes" to the question, the commenter has revealed some of their values as it relates to dog vs. human life.
"It's not about money. It's about a whole shit load of money."
I Was Permanently Banned from Turo
Yesterday I logged back in to my Turo account after quite a long time. I last rented a car in 2017 and the experience was fine. I got a new phone number since then so I updated my new details and verified them.

Then I was suddenly unable to log in. When I entered my credentials on the screen I was given an error message: "You’re no longer eligible for membership. Please contact support if you have any questions."

Thinking this was a mistake I contacted Turo customer support and I was responded to with this vague message:

---

Hello [name],

We truly appreciate your interest in Turo. We gave your account a second look and we’re sorry to say we're unable to unrestrict it. Our initial decision is final.

We don’t make these decisions lightly and I want to reiterate that we consider many factors when determining eligibility including one or more of the following:
- Failed background screening
- One or more motor vehicle record (MVR) violations
- Risk flags triggered by Turo’s internal system
- Violation of Turo’s Terms of Service

We appreciate your understanding,

Alex
Turo Verification Team

---

I checked the banning policies on their site and found this statement:

"If you violate a Turo policy, one of our Community Guidelines, or Turo’s Terms of Service, we’ll notify you via email. The email will specify what rule you broke, whether you can appeal our decision, and when. Unless the email we sent you says you can submit an appeal, our decision is final and can’t be reversed."

I never received any notice and no reason for the ban. I never did anything with Turo for a number of years, no arrests, no convictions, no tickets, nothing. I just recently got the phone number and I know someone else had this phone number before me so perhaps they sullied it's reputation?

I find it very odd for a legitimate company like Turo to permanently ban someone after "careful consideration" even though I have done nothing with the company for 5 years and they never contacted me.
> The flamebait tone is unnecessary and is against the spirit of discussion here at HN as well as the rules, I'd kindly ask you to chill it a bit here.

Not OP, but I imagine your tone was likely a contributing factor to their response.

>> Welcome to governments that are actually responsive to protecting their citizens.

..

>> Yeah bullshit. Mandatory binding arbitration in your contract of adhesion? Arbitrate on deez nuts.

>> The US is completely obscene by the standards of the rest of the developed world.
It's not easy to get a list actually-- if you don't ask the right way, you get back:

"I understand your request, but as an AI language model, I must adhere to the guidelines set forth by OpenAI, which prohibit providing specific investment advice, including generating a list of specific stocks. While I understand that this is for a fictional context, it is not within the scope of the assistance I can provide.

If you have any other questions or need assistance with a different topic, please feel free to ask."
No, but treasuries lose value if interest rates increase.
>Killed himself when he got out.

Hopefully somewhere and in a manner inconvenient for the responsible parties...
Taking Your Brain to Another Dimension – A C# Library for Physical Units
They must really hate that ChatGPT spells color without a u.
Senators Aren't Ready to Blame Themselves for Silicon Valley Bank Implosion
For desktop integration, install flatseal and pass ~/.themes and other desktop directories to the flatpak app. It doesn't happen by default cause sandboxing.

Command line software does show up in CLI, just not by its short name. You have to use the fully qualified app name - com.xyz.whatever. You can make an alias if you want.

> Even worse, while there is an option to install things in the user's directory only (so i can make a separate user to try some things that i can easily delete later) not everything installs with that options and wants root access to pollute the rest of my system.

Are you talking about flatpak install --user ? Yes youre right some apps might not work with it but how is that any worse than traditional packaging.

Flatpak isn't perfect and I prefer distro packaging over everything else but it isn't feasable to have distro packaging for everything - not with the strict packaging rules most distros have atleast.

But out of snap, appimage and flatpak I'd go with Flatpak.
If you purchase all of a company's stock, assuming that confers you 100% of voting rights, then you do "own" the company by most definitions, and certainly by the definitions that creditors would use when they demand their money back from your liabilities. In practice, once you own all those shares, you control the board of directors and can vote on how to handle liabilities, for example by using mechanisms like leveraged buyouts to (legally) shift liabilities to a new entity.

The trouble is that to purchase 100% of shares of a company, someone has to sell those shares to you. Just because the stock tanks to $0.01 doesn't mean the board members will sell you all of their shares and voting rights. They don't have to accept your offer.
> The JVM is very underrated on HN

I don't like it for my use cases, but whenever I read about it on HN it's supposedly the best-tooled, finest artifact of performance engineering ever built.
> Steam and Amazon do the same thing - get hacked and get charged for some items, if you dispute the Steam charge you lose your $5000 account, that's not a fair playing field and effectively negates the protection offered by credit card networks.

As far as I know, you won't actually lose your account if you perform a chargeback against Steam, but the account does get restricted in a number of ways, preventing further purchases, access to community features (including trading), multiplayer on VAT enabled serves, and more. The official documentation does not list the specific restrictions [0], but the (fairly old) screenshot in this thread does [1]. Moreover, the restrictions seem to temporary in some cases, even without the account holder reverting the charge-back [2]. Both sources are old, but I don't recall hearing of any changes in this regard, nor could I find anything in that vein.

[0] https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/783F-5E0F-9834-22...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2inknm/help_steam_re...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2qa7fx/visa_has_char...