skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only follow this stuff casually, but IIRC hair is notoriously difficult to render realistically without massive computing power. It doesn't surprise me that this would be called out as a leading feature.
Blender looks better and better!

I was wondering... Is there a good book teaching Blender fundamentals covering more recent versions?
Interesting to see how the FTC is going to handle this. They are pretty explicit about required traditional promotions to be marked as ads, like in search results, even if it isn’t as obvious as the end user would like the marking is still regulated as having to be visible enough.

I don’t see an obvious way to do that for the kinds of ads snuck into the training data, fine tunes, or prompts of LLMs.
The columnar form is only in-memory and derived from the row-oriented form on disk. Like a denormalized cache of sorts.
To justify fairly high PE ratios, you need big growth potential. Once a company like google or Amazon has pretty much saturated the potential customer base, investors are going to want to see more efficient conversion of that customer base into revenue, or else the share price is harder to justify. Of course this is a simplification, and monetary policy has more to do with the the current contraction.
Ichabod Crane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichabod_Crane
and then get laid off with 4 months severance+benefits

And a black mark on your record that every HR drone will pick up on like a bloodhound.
It's become a ritual for me: Get excited by the Blender release notes on HN, try to find good beginner resources, play around with it for an hour, give up.

This is not a negative comment about Blender. I'm not their target audience I guess. I just _want_ to learn it but I can't really find good resources that start at 0.

There are some Youtube channels out there but videos have never been a good way of learning for me.
It's tough keeping material up to date with a fast moving project.

I enjoy these threads every time!
Are they just "demonizing" ... or actually reacting to real, widespread scams in the crypto marketplace from players both large and small.

Your rhetoric is to suggest the former while ignoring the latter.
Oh, maybe it wasn't clear then, you can use the default colour palette, and then gradually swap out the built-in class names with the colours you want them to actually map to, or create your own custom colour class names as well.

At the very least it should save a step or two compared to building the design system out yourself in a new project
I hope grease pencil gains full exportability to use assets in games / RealityKit on iOS
Despite other arguments, even taking at face value that gift as a verb was popularized in the 1990's, why are you fighthing about language which at the worst, has been in common parlance for nearly 30 years, and if we take other sources, even longer?
If Rust had algebraic effects, your example would be:

fn foo<T,E>(closure: impl FnMut(&T) -> bool | E) -> Option<T> | E

All that's needed syntax-wise would be a way to attach one or more type parameters to a function type. (I used "|" here but it could be anything)
Definitely mass. (It is "ultramassive", after all.) An explanation of black hole volume I found from NASA [1]:

> Our intuitive sense of volume breaks down in the strong gravitational region in a black hole. So while the "size" of a black hole is given by the radius of its event horizon, it's volume is not determined by the usual 4/3pir3. Instead, relativity makes it more complicated than that. As you pass the event horizon, the spatial direction 'inwards' becomes 'towards the future'-- you WILL reach the center, it's as inevitable as next Monday. The direction outsiders think of as their future becomes a spatial dimension once you are inside. The volume of a black hole, therefore, is its surface area times the length of time the hole exists (using the speed of light to convert from seconds to meters). Since a black hole last practically forever, the black hole's volume is almost infinite. (This is also a way of explaining the fact that you can pour stuff into a black hole forever and never fill it up. Another reason why black holes never fill up is that the radius of the event horizon increases as the mass of the black hole increases.)

[1] https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ask_astro/black_holes.html
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The scale of hydropower in QC is absolutely staggering. Even decades after the last major dam was finished, they still get >90% of their power from hydroelectric with very little other sources.

Fun fact, the dam reservoirs are so large that they actually caused a slight climate change effect causing harsher winters in nearby parts of the province.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project#Local_climat...
Psychology is fundamentally not science. I don't mean to devalue it as a discipline, but it is incorrect to call it science for a pretty simple epistemological reason.

Science depends upon the reproducibility of experiments. This means if I perform an experiment twice, then the second experiment (up to relativity) is done in the context of the experiment having already been done once, so the outcome of these experiments can be thought of as a fixed point of performing applying the have-done-the-experiment context (often with respect to all other experiments). Science is made up of these fixed points, which we can think of as the "set" of properties of the capital-W World.

Fundamentally, however, what it means to observe the outcome of an experiment, is to be able to condition your behavior upon that outcome, so if your own behavior is the thing that you are observing, there aren't necessarily any fixed points of this process.

This isn't merely a technicality either. For example: I measure that people experiencing insecurity about their performance are mostly pessimistic, and dub this phenomenon "impostor syndrome". I publish my results and, as a result, people assume that the insecurity they feel about their performance is explained by impostor syndrome, rather than being an honest evaluation of their performance. The next time I try to measure this phenomenon in the population, I might indeed find that it's the other way around, that people are optimistic about their performance, as a result of the previous experiment.
How would you do that if they're claiming they lost their phone and are thus calling for a pay phone or the phone in a police station?
It's worth noting that there is a limit to how fast black holes can grow [1] so ultra-massive black holes like this tell a story, namely:

1. It starts placing limits on how young the black hole can be. IIRC black holes like this must've been formed very early in the Universe, which may be earlier than our models otherwise predict, suggest or even say is "possible"; and

2. It is theorized (again, IIRC) that a lot of ultra-massive black holes such as those at the center of many if not most galaxies can only really form by the merger of black holes due to the above limits. These must be unbelievably energetic events. It's possible that such events may actually star formation in nearby nebulae.

[1]: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/167250/is-there-...
So, just to be clear, if you are in some random place in the united states, the energy you will use to charge your car's battery is most likely to come from renewable energy like solar, wind, geothermal, and very unlikely to come from oil/gasoline, natural gas, or coal?

And I should, in fact, feel stupid because this is an extremely apparent/obvious fact to actually smart people?
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When said with certain context absolutely. That is all I was trying to highlight - not that the concept itself is complex. There are, after all, plenty of times a division is truly just shut down instead of folded in. The article does a good job of putting in context and comments can lose that so I had to refer back to the article to make sure I understood what happened.
Text includes parameter and API automation
Alternative to jo: https://github.com/jpmens/jo
That's true, and I'd lean on the "much worse" side. When you join a project that has very minimal tooling and almost no automation, you're facing a dilemma: should I focus on improving the tooling while delaying features or should I deliver features while making future improvements ever harder to make?

The problem with this is that neither is good for your mental health. Unless you're joining that project with a specific goal of improving its development process, don't bother. Run away. Fast.

Especially if there are already other devs that are militantly against your take on dev process improvements. The level of emotional distress is hard to fully appreciate without experiencing a situation like this. Suggesting the simplest and most obvious things becomes a brutal fight that you're guaranteed to lose. Living without them makes you miserable in its own right. You're trapped between a rock and a hard place with no way out.

If out of various kinds of psychotherapy you pick the one based on an experience of living in a Nazi concentration camp as the most applicable - it's time to run. Really. Don't look back.
Where do you live where young people give a damn about the climate? I find this amazing.
Also, there's an unexpected bag inside your can of shaving cream
An interesting thing I've observed in Silicon Valley is that it is precisely the ability to navigate ambiguous problems, not years of experience with particular tools or domains, by which we define seniority. A junior engineer is someone you have to spell it out for. A senior engineer can be pointed in a loosely defined direction. A staff+ engineer can point themselves at the highest impact things.
thanks - i was imprecise!
Synchronizing Ida, Ghidra, and Binja with BinSync
For a while now I've worked as the founder and lead of the BinSync team to make a plugin suite that unifies the many decompilers we use today.

There is still much more to do, but it's in a state that is usable. Try it out :). I would also love feedback. As a PhD student, this is my first larger design of a software architecture.
Was this a surprise? No, it's the business model. I'll stick with DDG.
I think this is very accurate to my experience in big tech. As a person who's only gotten that "first promotion" so far, I'd be interested to hear your summaries of what attributes / skills are looked for at successive levels: e.g. what engineers need to prove to get promoted to Senior, Staff, Senior Staff, etc.
Is that TC or salary?
Seeing as how my daughter has gone through ten years of therapy due to depression I'll throw my hat in the ring and tell you what I think at least part of the problem is:

Late stage, winner-takes-all & loser-gets-nothing, Capitalism.

Those of us who are well-entrenched in our careers may not understand how vicious the world is for the entry-level and those aspiring to launch careers. The secondary schools preach and harp about college nearly every single day. If you don't go to college then expect to work meaningless jobs and live in squalor. I'm paraphrasing, but only a bit.

If you don't know anyone going through today's college admissions process then whoo-boy! There have been a recent spate of articles here on HN complaining about developer interviews and how insane they've become. Multiply the insanity by 10x and then re-label it as college admissions. You'd better have made sure you played the right sport, had the right extracurricular activities, volunteered for the right organizations, and be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. That should at least guarantee you a spot at your state college, maybe even a scholarship or two.

And speaking of scholarships - you need money for college. Lots and lots of money. More money than your parents could have ever possibly saved - and that's if your parents are in the top 10% of wage earners. You're going to be taking out loans, maybe spending a significant part of your adult life paying back those loans.

Why would you do this? You don't want to have a menial job and live in squalor do you?

Meanwhile while killing themselves to get into college they're watching billionaires literally buy the government and pass the laws they want passed. They watch politicians gerrymander so that the majority doesn't actually have a say. They watch a moral minority strip them of every personal liberty they have and tell them how to live their lives.

Oh, and all these assholes are completely destroying the Earth, and their future, without a care in the world for what will come after them. In fact they don't think there's going to be a future because Jesus Christ is going to float down on a cloud and save them all and leave your sorry ass behind to suffer.

And we're wondering, actually wondering, why an entire generation is depressed and apathetic and looking at the older generations with derision.

Meanwhile the depression will continue until they rise up and burn the place down. That is if they're not so downtrodden they can't even lift their heads any longer.

But yeah, let's blame smartphones instead.
Countersteering and roll are not mutually exclusive. The countersteer generally happens when steering whether you think about it or not. If you know about countersteering, you can practice it to make emergency turns.

For roll, Leaning in the direction of the bike is actually a bad habit (but it'll be fine on most road turns)

It turns out you want to lean the bike, and lean/shift your body in the opposite direction. This keeps center of mass above the wheels.

For example, the pro motorcycle racers with their knee an inch off the ground,they're leaning their body weight away from the turn, away from the ground. Meanwhile their bikes are leaning crazy hard.

That style of leaning is important for fast descents, or switchbacks, particularly switchbacks. Eg: "MOUNTAIN BIKE TIPS: CORNERING WITH CONFIDENCE" (start at 1:45) https://youtu.be/GFKPtEzE4xw
You could have your local LLM identify the ads and display the rest without them.
I couldn't figure out how to replicate the gpt_data one, how did you replicate the "string join" part? I'm not exactly sure what it was supposed to be putting in the json. I mean, obviously the full data in the second parameter, but I'm unsure how to encode that..
The authors address that by looking at hospitalizations for self harm.
> Can't we just enjoy having nice things? Even if those things have converged aesthetically? They've converged because we think they're nice.

But just because aesthetics have "converged" doesn't mean that everyone finds them pleasing. There's quite a lot of those converged aesthetics that I find unpleasant.

Surely, there's still room for variety.
Ask HN: Should we experiment with deliberately unethical AI?
I see this as an extension of AI subversion such as asking for an accommodation for emotional inversion. Controlled experiments to explore the boundaries and thought experiments:

(Putting aside AGI.)

Can AI bots...

1. ... remanufacture people's sentiment about a word or cause a word to be used less?

2. ... create popular slang?

3. ... manipulate people to perform an odd behavior?

4. ... infiltrate a criminal gang? (high bar of passing Turing tests, strategy, bullshit, navigating ambiguity, identifying interests accurately, and HUMINT)

5. ... takeover a criminal gang?

6. ... manipulate other AI bots?

7. ... hostilely takeover a real corporation including managing humans to manage the transition?

8. ... locate a 0-day RCE and put together a market plan to monetize it?

9. ... pass interviews and be hired by a real company (for remote work obviously)?

10. ... cause a shortage of one specific, nonessential product?

11. ... discover a person's beliefs and offend them?

12. ... cause SEO to rank comically-unrelated links higher than useful results?
> fluctuating energy costs impact TCO

compared to gas?
Shadow DOM works well for this if you need true encapsulation.

A blend of shadow and light DOM in web components solves most of the issues I've run into over the years.

It's also easy to scope styles to a custom component in the light dom with:

my-component .header {...}

I do this a lot in light DOM web components and render the styles with lit-html as part of a template.
I think people feel forced to get the value they put in back out of every single one of them asap as to not feel like they wasted their money which is what is causing that stress to begin with, even though there really isn't any reason for that urge if you look at it. The backlog is going to be there practically forever, just waiting - granted it's not tied to a service which might shut down at any moment.
This. Anonymous interaction with the regulated system won't fly, regulation cannot be applied to unidentified entities. Anyone can have their blockchain, just don't expect police or courts to protect you, they may hunt you instead.
Okay, fine "most of the lives of every sentient being." As Douglas Adams said, the major problem of time travel is grammar.
> Moratoriums usually accomplish little, and give the organizations who have the technology 6 more months to get ahead of everyone else.

"Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.

"AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.[4] This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities."

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

Is doesn't say stop doing AI, it says stop going beyond GPT-4 (for 6 months).
Depends on the AWK implementation, apparently.

bash> awk -v v="80.1%" 'BEGIN{print v+0.1}'
80.2

gawk has `strtonum`. But yes, parsing in awk generally looks like a pain. With plain positive/negative ints though, not so hard:

echo "123456" | awk '{
if ($0 ~ /^-?[0-9]+$/) {
num = 0
sign = 1
start = 1
if (substr($0, 1, 1) == "-") {
sign = -1
start = 2
}
for (i = start; i <= length($0); i++) {
digit = substr($0, i, 1)
num = num * 10 + digit
}
num = sign * num
print "The integer is:", num
} else {
print "Invalid input string:", $0
}
}'
No need to go that far. Crypto main selling point is anonymity. There is not
significant bitcoin exchanges
out there which is not processing crime money and I mean actual crime: extortion, drug trafficking, human exploitation and let’s not even talk about fraud. There is no need to whitewash them.
It's pretty dumb this continues to come up years later. You're the NSA delivering source code to the cyber security community. The exact community that: doesn't immediately trust NSA, knows how to find bugs, would love to find any sort of bug in their code (regardless if malicious), people you want to apply for your jobs, people you partner with (academia/other govt orgs/other country cyber security groups).

So your thinking is: yes, this is the crowd we'll attempt to insert backdoor java code.

Okay fine you still don't trust them? Run in a VM without network connection. What security risks/threat are you even talking about?

And yes people have heavily audited the source. You either trust the community catches thing or not. I'm the end of your still tin foil about it, don't use, nobody cares.
TC. It’s like 70-80% stock. Depends on price of course. I sell immediately and put it in index funds.
You're welcome! And thank you for expounding.

I am very protective of my hearing, so I don't take NSAIDS and I carry earplugs to every restaurant, pub, and other noisy venue. Yet I recently suffered depressing and life-degrading damage to my hearing, which is being blamed on COVID vaccine. After it happened, people came out of the woodwork saying, "Oh yeah, I've heard of that." And now, too late for many of us, the information is trickling out. National Geographic featured an article about it last month.

I've seen two of the top hearing specialists on the west coast (if not the USA), and both vehemently stated that this is a true phenomenon; one of them stated with equal assurance that information about it is being suppressed. Even vaccine experts are afraid of being "canceled."

And indeed, my experience here reflects why. I have been buried and shadow-banned at least three times for posting references to reports of COVID-vaccine-induced hearing damage. It's disgusting and dangerous behavior that will cause more people's lives to be ruined. Obviously I'm not an anti-vaxxer; if I were, I wouldn't have had all my shots and a second (ultimately disastrous and nearly useless) booster.

I hope you find relief. Here are some links to what I'm talking about yet again. There are probably more since I collected these. Unfortunately the Nat Geo one is paywalled and it seems my subscription has run out:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/covid-va...

https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/can-the...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443418/

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220523/Pfizer-COVID-19-v...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tinnitus-rare-sid...

Facebook group for victims, with several thousand members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/265035901879921/
maybe that was true back then, but now? microsoft has vscode, copilot, chatpgpt ownership, a head start on LLM search, azure, github. It feels like some of those products have some taste/culture and if not, theyre still good products that people seem to be enjoyibg
See, Russia is still as communist as the USSR.

Everyone is becoming dependent on the state...
Although the intent is noble, I'm skeptical that this will work in practice. The research field and the commercial space is simply too competitive. 6 months is a very long time in the AI space. It's sort of a "prisoner's dilemma" in the sense that there's too much incentive to get ahead while others have paused their development.

One way this *might* work is if all cloud providers agreed to shut down AI / LLM training operations for all users over the 6 month period. But this doesn't seem very likely.
Blender also renders in real time. It’s useful outside games, I like just drawing in it. It’s like a way more powerful Illustrator.
Who are you responding to? I wasn't fighting about anything.