skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former freelance DOP for cinema productions:

Movies have dark scenes nowadays mainly because it is a trend. On top of that dark scenes can have practical advantages (set building, VFX, lighting, etc. can be reduced or become much simpler to do which directly translates into money saved during shooting).

If I had to guess, the trend of dark scenes are a direct result of the fact that in the past two decades we our digital sensors got good enough to actually shoot in such low-light environments.

Before that film crews were typically shooting day-for-night which meant waiting for a set of specific weather conditions and then hoping that grading things blue-ish would sell the thing as being shot in the night.

Another aspect is the much higher brightness and contrast (=dynamic range) of today's displays and projectors. Back in the day you had to literally use the whitest white and the darkest dark available to create a readable picture (and you had to do a ton of lighting to squash the extreme dynamic range of a real world environment into the small dynamic range of your target medium). As this dynamic range became bigger it became possible to not use the whole range and still have good looking results. So in that line of thinking pictures became darker because they can be.

Not that I defend the whole thing, sometimes dark pictures with a high contrast can be good and very readable, sometimes it is used as an excuse to not do the propper work.
Their claimed goals and ethics sound pretty compelling. Something along these lines was strongly called for, and if their project ends up serving the general role that they seem to be pursuing, it might serve as an essential element of future society -- either directly or as an early work.

Then it's also great to see that they seem to be pretty open about stuff, [including their hardware](https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/opening-orb-look-insi... ).

That said.. it's hard to see terms like "coin", "wallet", "Web3", "NFT", etc., without a bit of concern -- even if, admittedly, such terms might be appropriate and justifiable in this sort of application.

Is there a page that shows their overall economic model, perhaps with flow-charts and such? This is, where are the cash/token/hardware/etc. in-flows and out-flows?

And is there an early-adopter incentive? And if so, is it significant, or is the system designed to be fair to folks whenever they might join?

Asking in part because the classic pyramid-scam thing, where early-adopters end up collecting huge rewards at the expense of late-adopters, seems like a major hallmark of dubious projects. Projects without such asymmetries would seem more credible, both in terms of not being yet another pyramid-scam and long-term viability.
Kodály had reasonable success with this approach across the world: https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/kodal...
Can you explain why this distinction matters objectively, and why it matters to you subjectively?
I remember when the exact same thing was used to berate Apple for working with Foxconn.

Looking at the date of the article, they were almost contemporary.
Stavros' law of AGI: If we know how it works, it's not true AGI.
Very heavy on the old man nostalgia glasses. Yes, the very best VFX in the past stands its ground. Taste is still not optional.

If you are however claiming that, on average, visual fidelity has declined in comparable product tiers, well, no. In the past a lot of folks would just not do much FX at all, because it was prohibitively expensive.
The programmer has to understand the problem. If the person behind the keyboard offloads that to AI, the AI is the programmer. The person behind the keyboard is basically just a manager.
Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw that gives full control to 12M sites
Most phones barely run anything but bytecode anyway.

Iphones do, but the biggest advantage of an M1 in that case the advantage by far ought to be "runs macos" and not, "is arm".

x86 rapidly losing in serverspace? No. If you work on servers you are still mostly working on x86. And in most cases it wouldn't matter anyway.

Lot of hypotheticals to try and justify it.
Or we could just use one of the old reliable and cheap devices available to measure humidity and stop watering the wooden floor
I switched in the other direction (Mac to Linux).

I grew up with Windows PC's + laptops and Mac's keyboard and general way of doing things was just always really unintuitive (maybe infuriating?) for me.

I also didn't like Mac's prescriptive attitude toward me as a user. It's MY machine. I bought it, it belongs to ME. I should be able to do whatever I want to the deepest parts of the configs if I feel inclined to do so. (Like "right to repair" I would like something similar to "right to full control of my own hardware")
How do you know other humans aren’t machines?
The Hobbit was also very rushed, and filmed a lot of things even without a script.
They seem to have meant 1959, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth
..could you not split it up over multiple, smaller drives then?

I get that this could be frustrating (being surprised specifically), but it seems a pretty reasonable restriction so it seems odd to criticize it like this.
wouldn't package.json be enough?
A Magic Attack That Makes the Copilot No Longer Prompt
There's also implicitcad, that can use haskell, and does automatic fillets.
It's also the problem of "we'll fix it in post". Applies to sound, too.

Too many movie makers these days assume that any issues can be removed by CGI in post-production. But you can only do so much with the material you're given.

Oh, and post-production time and budget are often an afterthought, too.
The "where is the light coming from" complaints in the Scream scene seem completely ignorant of the fact that our eyes have such a staggering amount of fidelity when compared with a camera that the filmmaker must compensate for that by overlighting the scene. You would be able to pick out details of a character's face in a dimly-lit room that only has external light sources because your eyes are incredible devices. To me, it's mind-bendingly tedious for someone to pick this apart and ask where the light sources are coming from when what they are going for is a mood as opposed to objective realism.
I'm too low-IQ to understand what this means.
1% is what wealth management groups charge. If you're going to charge that much you should change your marketing
I’m glad cinema is mostly past its fling with quick cuts and shaky cam, but the current obsession with drab low-contrast color palette is just as bad.

Another one that irks me is shallow depth of field.

I appreciate the deep-focus cinematography by the likes of Kurosawa and Welles all the more when I see modern filmmakers making 80% of their frame blurry on purpose.

Fads are cyclical, so I was hoping that after Zack Snyder brought the style to its logical unwatchable conclusion with his “Army of the Bokeh”, cinematographers and directors would move on, but I guess it’s not that time yet.
I don't see the issue. Why change a formula that is known to work? How is anyone to know if it's an honest description and their attitude is genuine? That's what reputation is for. Reputation is most valuable in my opinion and that goes for both potential employer and employee. If it's not available proxies may give some indication, or character evaluation by in person meeting. Does the pitch align with how the other side comes across? It's not a 100% guarantee. The rest is risk, which we can't be without.
Company needs to be liable and introduce necessary steps so that it’s staff operates responsibly.

How quick is a manager at deprioritizing quality to secure a deadline?
Website for the Shasta District Fair Junior Livestock Auction, for some context:

https://www.shastadistrictfairandeventcenter.com/junior-live...

It seems to be some kind of event for kids to learn about the practice of raising cattle, and the meat business.

So it is clear that the goat was never intended to become a pet. Still, I can't imagine this is the first time that there were upset kids at the fair. That place must be a tear factory.
maybe there are "dark implementations" just like there are "dark patterns"
Nice! I’d love to see this for K also.
They probably have a folder that auto syncs with Google Drive https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124?hl=en

Same way that Dropbox works

So they are not manually choosing what to sync, they just put all of the work and other files they want to automatically sync inside of that folder. This ends up including things like node modules and things like that
Yes, the article assumes the directors know their film will be unwatchable in certain contexts and have chosen to keep it that way. Is there any evidence for this? Have they ever actually watched it on one of those cheap laptop screens or TVs where the black shows up as bright blue, brighter than other colors? Because a lot of people have those screens.
> CGI now somehow looks worse than VFX 10-30 years ago

It's somewhat incorrect. We now have significantly more CGI, and most of it significantly better. See, e.g., Why C.G. Sucks (Except It Doesn't) https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24

However, the over-reliance on CGI is a problem
Author here. I don't think any of these points are unreasonable.

I think the apparent conflict comes into play when we treat your point and my point like they are mutually exclusive. But they don't have to be - the resume system can be horrific and the alternatives can be bad in other ways, all in one swoop. It would honestly be weirder if it weren't so - it would imply a perfect process.

For what it's worth, I'm not exactly proposing a "system based on recommendations", and I'm not sure how that would really work if I was proposing it. I'm more saying that the kind of treatment people get when they can bypass the resume-first system is much more human - ideally, there would be a fix that would bring the resume-first system up to the nepotistic treatment level, but I don't claim to know what that is.
The new live-action Star Trek shows have taken to this madness as well. Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager were both bright, open shows. But you'd think with Discovery, Strange New Worlds, and Picard that we hadn't invented indoor lighting. Babylon 5 in its heyday was visually brighter than any of these three and no one can say that B5 was going for an "optimistic" plot worthy of such luminosity.

It's frustrating to watch and I empathize with people who feel like their cherished shows of before are being "ruined" by spin-offs or reboots.
> Dangerously understaffed, underfunded. Patients dying in ambulances in hospital car parks because the hospitals (and all its corridors) are full.

It’s definitely underfunded (which healthcare system isn’t?) but the rest of this is hyperbole. The UK doesn’t have one hospital.
Makes me wonder: if the amount of users affected is vanishingly small, then why implement it, as it sounds like a vanishingly small problem to me?
"Never" is a long time.

Given the explanations I've been given for why demonstration videos of general purpose vision-based robots are still often sped up x4 or more (despite Tesla and Spot), I have to assume it's at least a few years away yet, but that's not never.
The new Willow series had this problem as well
They don't have to do it. The movie is supposed to be re-cut and re-color-graded and a thousand other things before shipping to home media. That's been the case since forever, and it was never the director's job to do that.

These days for some reason studios forego that process and "meh, good enough, stream it".
I asked chatGPT why it kept apologising and told it to not apologise to me.

Guess what, it apolgised immediately after and then again when I asked why it apologised even after I told it not to.
I think I can explain the trick even easier and hopefully that clears up your confusion. Simply store a complex number s which represents the current output of the synth (cos on the real part, sin on the imag). At each time update (the sample rate), multiply s by a pre-computed constant c (which is also complex valued). You just need for c^(i/sample_rate) to equal e^(i*freq/2pi). It does not matter that freq/2pi doesn't line up with the sample rate. The trick is wholly dependent on just keeping track of the state s and reliably multiplying it at a known update frequency.
"Vanishingly small": a number of users small enough to be downplayed, but large enough so that neither an individual approach to the problem would work, nor that the problems could be ignored. Suspected to be a complex number.
Well, at a minimum we know that Christopher Nolan's position is an explicit "I don't care about you if you don't watch the movie in the theater".
OP looked back on his 15 year career and discovered the one thing he was uniquely bad at was negotiating fair and equitable compensation for his efforts and decided to switch into making that his full time job.
Unrelated: is VARCHAR(255) still a thing?
tresorit can do that:

https://support.tresorit.com/hc/en-us/articles/217103697-Exc...
I've struggled with dark movies because my current screen is OLED.

(It's magnified in a living room that I can't truly darken during the day).

OLED has such dark blacks that what used to be dim is now no-light-at-all-black.

HDR also seems to affect things, but I'm not certain if and how much it contributes to the problem (or is a solution).
There is a strip of “Mafalda” (a famous character in Spainsh-speaking countries) distinguishing between realism and reality:

http://rubenrevecoarte.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-poco-mas-de-r...
Except "this is just" is sprinkled all over NNs, DL and in turn of ChatGPT. Actually they pride themselves on "this is just".

So your argument is probably more accurate for the other camp, or at least as accurate for the other camp as well.
Source? My anecdotal experience is that in the US people without much income will simply avoid seeing a doctor until things get Serious because of cost, which makes the quality of care somewhat irrelevant (and my other anecdotal experience was that Uk hospital quality was quite good, and as you mentioned, free).
i think i found a decent 30b alpaca model if anyone else is just now diving in:

https://huggingface.co/Pi3141/alpaca-lora-30B-ggml/tree/main
The main detail here seems to be that this particular chatbot engaged in an emotional manner, something some chatbots are intentionally not trained to do because it's potentially misleading and harmful.
> I'd like the "stochastic parrot" crew to explain how interactions like this somehow don't involve the extraction of and manipulation of abstract meaning.

They don’t claim that it doesn’t. What they point out is that humans have a tendency to ascribe intent and agency to the text it outputs. But the LLM is optimized for prediction, not survival, unlike humans[0]:

> Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent. […] Our perception of natural language [is mediated by] our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent

Some of the dangers they raise associated with this is that it will not realize that words it chooses are PII, dangerous to give to who they are talking to, or biased in a way that can cause societal harm:

> If the LM or word embeddings derived from it are used as components in a text classification system, these biases can lead to allocational and/or reputational harms. […] A Palestinian man [was] arrested by Israeli police, after MT translated his Facebook post which said “good morning” (in Arabic) to “hurt them” (in English).

What they encourage is to view it as a tool and assess how it may fail. For instance, you might object that the MT was simply incorrect; but realistically, sentences can be translated in many ways and with many intents (eg. Allah Akbar has a lot of contexts!) and the LLM may not be given the full picture of the situation.

The stochastic parrots paper is heavily misrepresented or used by people that don’t seem like they read it. For instance, it was cited in a recent petition asking to stop work on powerful AI, prompting a response from the authors[1] pointing out that it misunderstands the paper and emphasizing that they disagree with the petition.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

[1]: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20...
Then don’t pretend to release “the algorithm.”
Haha, amazing. I started watching this with my kids tonight, and they said "it's so dark I can't tell what's happening" and we turned it off.
No, but they might like the sort of projects the organization does with respect to complexity, or that they mostly serve governmental buildings, or that they work in the community they're part of, etc. In the end, you have to make a choice between organizations to work for, and usually they all pay more or less the same. So, what's then the deciding factor?

By the way, this definitely doesn't mean to glorify an organization and what they're doing. Far from it. They're just in it for continued existence and making some money, I suppose. But it is nice if an organization has some social utility, as compared to, say, sell advertisements for crap no-one needs. And I think, if that's important to you, you can refer to that when you're applying for a job.

Of course, if you're working in a field where there's much more candidates than jobs, this is pretty meaningless because you have to take whatever comes your way.
Wine 8.5
> But why work on hardware from a company that is so closed-source and user/hacker hostile? Why gift your talent to a company that doesn't respect you ?

I'm glad Asahi exists, and I hope that it will become as successful as it can possibly be, but I remember being surprised about it because the founder of Asahi Linux used to viciously complain about the closed parts of the Raspberry Pi hardware on twitter, at the most heated moments comparing them with Apple. I first became aware of him when he shared the barely-obfuscated hardware keys needed to clone the RPi v2 camera hardware (or something). I remember him ranting about how the Raspberry Pi foundation had gone "full Apple" and how we ought to call the Raspberry Pi "the Raspberry iPi."
This is definitely something the 3d printing community would be interested in. The lack of a good open source cad program has been an issue.
And Whitney is into being able to see the whole code at a single glance as far as I know.
There is compensation and there is overcompensation.

The frame displayed there is obviously too bright, and this is the point.
Apple has gotten some praise for minor stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33290233

i.e making the linux port possible even if not supporting it publicly.
Linux has come a long way in terms of gaming. Literarily all my steam games run on Linux without issue, rig being a 3090 amd ryzen. I am surprised at how stable everything is and how well the ui works (kde, xfce, and openbox - the latter for focused work).
If I remember correctly, he noticed that his account with 100,000,000 plus followers was only getting 40,000 or so views. This lead to a Twitter engineer saying maybe his content wasn't interesting enough to get views and getting fired. And later on Musk said that they found a bug in the fanout system because his account was so big it basically broke things and they fixed it.

I remember everyone agreeing with the Twitter engineer who said maybe his content wasn't interesting enough, while to me that seemed odd. If people follow an account and they tweet and they're online they should have a high chance of seeing that tweet. That's the entire point of following someone. If someone I've followed tweets something I would like to see it.
AlignmentSearch – a conversational FAQ that can answer questions on AI alignment
That has already happened with the movie, though perhaps not in the form of dolls.
Windows 10 still has far better compatibility than Linux, with few downsides.

Especially if you play with friends that are on Windows, it’s the only way to guarantee you aren’t the odd one out not being able to try a new game. Or even play an old one after an update.
The variety of solutions sure isn't helping.

I'm just sticking all dev projects into a separate LXC and calling it a day. Don't want to deal with all the various separation models the various languages and package managers cooked up
I cannot find the reference but I remember reading, not too long ago, that even the professional ransomware gangs can be extremely lazy with their own security.
Apparently even some well-known players (not script kiddies) could be identified because they used their personal email address or something similar.
LotR trilogy from over 20 years ago even with its CGI usage still feels real today and all that realism allows you to submerge within the movies - it doesn't even have to be the extended edition. It somehow has a good balance even if the effects feel dated nowdays.

But Hobbit trilogy - all the time I had feeling I'm watching it from behind some plastic screen, or perhaps an action game. It's not bad (tho the book was "spread" into 3 movies) but excessive use of CGI and post-processing is clearly visible. Hell, the An Unexpected Journey has moments where Gandalf's face is unnaturally lighten up with dodge tool - and that does give me the unpleasant feelings.

I still believe that computers in movie industry should be tools to enhance camera work, not fully replacing it. You can deliver an exciting story portrayed without overfilling it with CGI or... lens flares, bokeh effects in every scene.
Evolution is just gene selection through natural selection. To create an eye is not possible

Well neural networks have unpredicted emergent properties. I don't see how anyone can rule out or know future behaviour
You may leave less room for rear seat, adult passengers if you drive a compact car.

It's still manageable, and fine for occasional trips, but I wouldn't choose that car to drive 4 adults daily.
Maybe a lot of people/companies also don't want to give their data and knowledge to OpenAI, so that they can sell it off to the competition.
It's not just films, a lot of TV programmes are heading that way too.

One example is the recently released adaptation of Great Expectations[1]. It's not just the overall darkness, but general lack of colour which is striking to me. I think this is just an artistic style and the next stage of colour grading from the Teal & Orange[2] trends of a few years ago.

You get used to it when watching a programme and forget what full colour actually looks like. Watching old films, something like the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia[3] highlighted it for me, really shows how much colour has been drained from modern film & TV productions.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/great-expectations-ai...

[2] https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...

[3] I think the recent remasters release may have some colour grading in too though, just looking at some scenes they are darker!
> Do you see such an organisation for software engineers in the United States of America? Or even most of Europe? Because I do not.

The problem is that medicine and law move orders of magnitude more slowly than software, at the moment. Software is evolving unbelieveably faster, and its problems are far more diverse. As it settles down, if it ever does, we may be able to calcify roles more formally, and then regulate those roles. But at the moment it's the wild west.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is 30% sugar: https://www.cinnamontoastcrunch.com/products/cinnamon-toast-...

But something like Frosties, a popular cereal in the UK, is 37%: https://www.kelloggs.co.uk/en_GB/products/frosties.html

So although breakfast in general might be an example, that particular cereal doesn't seem too different.
I'm crushed.
The statement “died by suicide” is so stupid as to become meaningless. As if “suicide” were a passive act.
It is because you are supposed to be watching them in a dark room.
The plans were for that. It's not built, and much of it, if built, is now not planned to support that speed.