skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can gather and have read, two things can be true at the same time:

1) Viewers can tell the difference between good and bad VFX and have a lot of complaints about the quality of VFX on a lot of projects.
2) Studios don't seem to care. They care about price and about tight deadlines.

Marvel is getting criticized a lot for the quality of its VFX, which has been poor at times in recent years, and a bit culprit of that is that release dates are set with schedules for work. But rewrites and reshoots happen, which push back when VFX can do their work, but the release dates don't move. So this leads to a lot of rushed work.
>as long as you do rounding and comparisons correctly it works perfectly fine.

At least until you need to add things, at which point you need Kahan's algorithm.
The problem is that autopilot can turn a not dangerous situation into a dangerous one, and leave you holding the bag when it disengages a second from the incident.
In the photos I've seen, it was pretty clear that they had a separate inner hull for mounting stuff. If they really drilled into the outer hull, it wouldn't have survived the first trip as that would have certainly caused matrix cracking that propagated to the skin. It would have failed in the first 1000 meters.
How is the strike discussion going between moderators and Stack Overflow, Inc?
Yes, and Java was justly reviled at the time for slow startups.
No, the symmetry of "anything could be dangerous" is broken by reality, by what is actually dangerous. Arguments of the form "all things look the same if you ignore all their differences" don't work.
... Am I reading this right that Oracle has decided to support Ampere's Awesome Arm chips?

In other news, did you notice that Ampere's CEO, Renee J James is on the board of Oracle?
Internal Phabricator isn't even really Phabricator anymore. In fact, the name changed to just Diffs. I'm pretty sure its entire codebase has been rewritten, at the very least into Hack from PHP. They have a custom API; not Conduit. Etc.

So, no. They wont support Phorge. They really never supported open-source Phabricator after Evan left and made it his own with Phacility.
What about the countless credible eye witnesses? Not everyone who claims they have witnessed a UFO is a kook...
And if it's for an online service, why even have it as a separate app? Just run it in your browser. You'll get the exact same thing but in the one instance of Chromium that you already run anyway. You also get the added benefit that your extensions work with it.
I worked in VFX for almost ten years. It's incredibly fun! I absolutely loved making movies and I worked with some amazing artists. It pays terribly, but it was the most fun I've ever had in a job.
> It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more money they raise the harder the fall will be.

This is where I always get burned. As they get larger and larger, and the product gets more complex, they see it as value that I'm not paying for, but I see it as negative value because I'm forced to deal with all the added complexity that I don't even want. Then, one day, they decide I shouldn't be "freeloading" on their super awesome platform and change pricing to something that isn't even close to reasonable for me.

It's like hiring someone to cut your grass and a few years later you go outside to find 3 guys on riding lawnmowers telling you that prices are going up because obviously you're not paying enough to cover the costs of the service you're getting. It's not my fault they scaled their business to accommodate customers with 10 acre lawns and assumed I needed the same level of service, but I'm the one left without lawn care.
Google has reportedly killed its Project Iris augmented reality glasses
>i ususally keep tabs open to retain the context

This is the way I do it as well - but I cant hold ~500++ 'context' threads in my head...

I typically hit a tab and wind up here: https://i.imgur.com/KWmVAD0.jpg
Profound, yes. Far more dangerous? Well, it's really the same thing. Automation slotting itself in between people and institutions can be harmful at various scales, but if that automation gets sophisticated enough - that is, once the automation is (equivalent to) powerful AI - we'll be facing an extinction-level threat.
... then it cracks and water spills everywhere.
These people will also get your game for 2.99 once it goes on sale. You don't want the full price of your life's work (based on your words) to be 99 cents, this is the exact price point of one gazillion awful games. I'm a heavy gamer and pretty much refuse to buy 99 cent games.

Well, do a before/after comparison of profits after changing the price, and running a few sales (like thanksgiving), and come back to tell us how that went :).
You might be onto something. Pixar isn't what it used to be, but I find AppleTV (when it works) captures a lot of that early Pixar magic.
> DSV Limiting Factor which seems much better built.

Understatement of the year. Limiting Factor is the only manned sub to make multiple dives (4!) into the Challenger Deep.
> is it time someone starts killedbyapple.com?

If the fiercest complaint you can muster is that Apple is shutting down a service that was, by today's standards, poorly designed and risky to use (photos only existed for 30 days if you didn't save them) and that has been superseded by a much better product (iCloud) for more than 9 years, well, I guess you must have more time on your hands to be outraged about product decisions than I do.
This is a feature that’s long been superseded by iCloud Photos and it’s been disabled by default on new installations of iOS for years. I don’t think anyone will miss it.
> Use ISO8601 date and time with offset info, always.

I think that's just sufficient for all use cases everywhere. I've been a software engineer for almost 25 years and, of all the universal truths I've encountered, implicit and unintended changes to datetime offset are the ones I've seen at every single job.
I have to at least rub the area where I drink otherwise it will smell within less 2 days
But.. The US Govt. has zero reasons to acknowledge existence of a non-human superior technology spacecraft. It would undermine their position as world super power and destabilize trust and security in the country and could lead to mass instability and a slow down of technological progress.

And if they are running a massive psyops deception campaign it would make the public lose the last vestige of trust left in the govt. Its a lose lose situation on both scenarios and I expect the US govt. to keep things of this nature locked down to a extreme state as it has been doing since WW2.

Also interesting note, the flood of credible pentagon UFO info is being brought up by a bunch of individuals who worked in(or currently for) the US intelligence community. This is 2017 and after when the NYtimes(Leslie Kean reporter) released the bombshell pentagon UFO tapes. These individuals are: Christoper Mellon(ex high ranking intelligence director), Luis Elizondo(Intelligence officer on and off), and currently David Grusch NGA, & NRO - the person who states that non human craft have been retrieved(OP article).
I did not make that assumption, with the idea that in countries with free (or freer, at any rate) market-based economies with little to no capital controls, the rising tide lifts all boats, including those of the proletariat without capital, to a standard of living higher than countries with unfree economies and significant capital controls.

In fact, in two of the countries that presently have significant capital controls (China and Russia), even your human capital is controlled with internal passports that limit where in your own country you can move to.

Of course, I likewise don't dispute that I don't know what your preferences are. My original statement ("you likely wouldn't want to") was intended to be a general statement, not for you in particular as an individual.
Many B2B, desktop first, application will not have the same feature set or layouts for mobile. There are things that can be easier on mobile too. Gonna depend on what your product does and how your users use it.

That being said...

(1) there is plenty of prior art out there on this, so you can sample to see what people are doing.

(2) Responsive is not just for desktop vs mobile, it's about many different screen sizes and breakpoints. You'll want to see how your app looks in 1080p as well as smaller screens, even larger too these days. Responsiveness is easy these days, but you don't have to optimize it all the way down for mobile.

(3) let your users or analytics decide when it is appropriate. A mobile app will likely be very different UX from your desktop. Think of it as a companion more than an alternative. What can the user do more effectively in each interface?
Goodluck finding Housing
Glad to see someone mentioning this. It's a strange about-face for them, as I thought they still scanned iCloud
No. They are pretty sensible with their product calls. Either it ends quickly (ping) or they see it through (Apple TV)
Hmm. I think the opposite, that you are missing my point entirely. But, really, it's probably just that we fundamentally disagree on very basic issues. That's fair.
After looking into there are actually a ton of these websites out there. This is the first actual open source one I've come across that runs in the browser (using WASM)

Non-OS freemium competitors:

- https://www.erase.bg/

- https://www.remove.bg/

- https://pixcleaner.com/

- https://removal.ai/

- https://bgremover.vanceai.com/

- https://www.no-background.coffee/

- https://icons8.com/bgremover
Separating the storage layer from data ingestion and query layer is very smart idea, which is used behind VictoriaMetrics cluster architecture [1]. It makes the cluster more reliable when either data ingestion or query side has temporary issues. This architecture also allows independent scaling of data ingestion, query and storage layers.

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.htm...
Of course, doing it wrong is also the best shot to ensure capitalism eats the universe.
"Sonic", "She-Hulk", "Cats", "Avatar"....

Maybe the industry will eat itself and we can go back to film making where it's the story that drives the film.

Edit: watched "Life After Pi" linked to here in the comments section. I feel my comment above is too abrasive now. The VFX guys don't deserve this crap. I still dislike the modern "Blockbuster" however.
And, regardless, these need to be included as an enemy and plot point in the next major installment of Call of Duty.
Yes. What the author is describing with the fancy TypeScript query builder is strictly worse than plain SQL. You still have to understand how SQL works, but on top, you all so have to understand this weird DSL on top of it.
BLS data states $1.95 for a loaf of bread.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
For similarly silly ideas: see these articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_ontology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_realism
Cloudflare works are/can be wasm too btw
> The monitor mounts screwed directly into the hull seem a likely starting point for the failure.

Nothing was screwed directly into the hull:

> These handle-lights aren’t attached to the carbon fiber. The sub is lined with a big insert, a perforated metal sleeve, that fits snugly against the carbon fiber, like a rolled-up poster in a mailing tube. “The thing with carbon fiber is you can’t cut holes in it. It doesn’t like that,” Rush says. “Nothing touches the carbon fiber.”

— David Pogue in “What I Learned on a Titanic Sub Expedition” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/what-i-learned-on-a-...
Yeah, wtf?
Yes, it's done via ROV's with manipulator arms that attach salvage cables to them. Way less failure prone than trying to bring them up with the ROV's directly because the ROV's are normally tethered via a fairly light duty tether that's connected to a base station that raises/lowers the craft. That keeps things much more maneuverable because the ROV doesn't have to drag around thousands of feet of cable, and, it provides some damping from any movement of the host ship operating it.

Additionally, the ROV can stay submerged, looking for other things to grab, while salvage cables are raised/lowered. Doubly important because those sorts of winches run at ~1000ft/hr, and the wreck is ~12.5k feet down, so over a full day for one recovery.
> One of the things that has always separated good developers from great developers, is that the great developers are masters of database querying.

What an arbitrary thing to say. I guess the developers that don't interact with the database are ass.
The iPhone keyboard wiped out my progress when the Roman numerals part started.

Man I miss my Android.

Fun game though.
I feel like every English speaker has seen or read one of the versions of "A Christmas Carol", so you'd think the idea that a wealthy miser would be hated by his community would be a fairly fundamental idea.
But how "random" are they, because the government knows you're coming and can tip someone off if they value their export manufacturing industry enough.
Yeah, they are the apex of cheesy action-led movies.

The first Avengers is so perfect that even Marvel had to change their theme after it. What then changed to light-comedy action-led movies.
As the Tau manifesto points out, tau/4 = pi/2 = lambda is pretty fundamental too ! (The "orthogonality constant" ?)
ECB welcomes European Commission legislative proposals on digital euro and cash
> You're really buying a transferable lease for 6-7 years on a device that has a hard stop to go to landfill after that time due to software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities.

I'm still rocking an iPhone 7 Plus and it's still getting updates even though it's seven years old. If anything the main thing that seems like it'll make me upgrade eventually is the battery life. It's not lasting anywhere near as long as it used to.

Although it looks like I can still get that replaced from Apple, so I might just do that.
Liability wavers don't give you an idea of how likely death and injury are.
> > it sounds more like you’re fine with it because you agree with who they’re censoring...

> Yes…

Well, at least you’re honest about supporting censorship of the “right” people.

> I will worry about this when authoritative information about important topics gets removed from all platforms at the whim of one or two companies

By then it’d already be too late. Though again I doubt you’d care even as long as the “right” people disappeared from your view. You don’t seem particularly worried about authoritarianism as long as the content you’ve been told is “harmful” has been “reviewed” and summarily removed.
Thank you for sharing your experience. Web accessibility has a long way to go and reminders like these help.
Pre-orders are open, starting at $150:

https://alef.aero/preorder.html

Expected price: $299,999.
I just don’t agree and that’s ok.

It’s funny that many people paid for newspapers specifically to get ads. Ads were native content and sought out.

If you offer content for free, I don’t understand why I have an ethical obligation to look at or read that content, ads included. Personally, I think many of the low quality ad platforms aren’t ads at all - they are information gathering platforms
The composite cylinder likely turned into physics
It also helps that Harry Potter is really a single story divided into 7 books/8 movies. Jurassic Park was a story told in a single book that was later expanded because it was profitable.
Or it's like AirPower where they said they were confident they were going to release it but eventually backpedaled.
yep, youtube video ids has/had? same issue where it would have things like fag/f4g etc in it.

eg: google "allinurl:fag site:youtube.com"
I have counter theory. It's a balloon.
I'd love to be as tall and athletic as an NBA player. Perhaps a height tax is in order to more fairly redistribute people along the vertical dimension.
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The equations are in mathml, I feel like the issue is with the screen reader.
Spending that money on burying power lines underground, so that the power does go out every time it rains, seems like a better bet.

i grew up in the US and it was completely normal that the power went out every time the wind blew. After nearly 26 years in Germany i've experienced exactly 3 power outages: 1 due to a billing error, one to a backhoe error, and one unexplained. The difference is simply that the overwhelming majority of German power lines are underground, immune to weather.

Fast internet means absolutely nothing if the power fails every time a breeze shakes a power line.
Me too. I think when we think about times before 100 AD, we think of unpainted marble, columns, and those ancient red-and-black Greek vases. We don't really consider that their painters also knew about, y'know, realistic portraits and shading and that sort of thing, but they absolutely knew how to do those things: https://joyofmuseums.com/museums/europe/italy-museums/naples...
I thought the reason people switched to PLA for 3D Printers is that the fumes for it were less toxic than other types of filament. I've never heard of PLA being used for food containers.
Same. it's an art form sometimes, and i've cooked the same dish and had it come out great... and then the next time get charred like a mofo.

I suspect it has to do with electric vs gas and being able to get and maintain a stable temp with gas. But that could just be a poor craftsman blaming his tools.
-rcvs

Load the (built-in) CSV module in Ruby.

-e

Eval the following string as Ruby code.

CSV($<)

Create CSV parser with standard input `$<` as the source.

.each

Run the code in the block that follows for each row (automatically skips the CSV header):

{ |r| puts r[0] }

For a row, print the first/0th element. Can be simplified in recent Ruby:

{ puts _1[0] }
> Right, but they can (and do) also prepackage ML inference services that don't involve Postgres.

but then you would need some dataprocessing/warehousing infra integrated to produce dataset for inference and then do something with inference results. Having one db with everything packaged would reduce complexity significantly.

ML training workflow also could be integrated into this DB, so you could have few queries to generate data for training, model training, generate data for inference, produce inference results and do something with inference results.
Now if someone can just do this for a WASM AI-powered bitmap to vector conversion library, I'll be set
Poppy Playtime - Mob Entertainment
Hi there! Yes - we have learned a lot!

- kids love any stories that involve witches and magical powers. I guess the Harry Potter phenomenon still reigns supreme.

- kids love Roblox and we learned A LOT about community engagement by incorporating these elements into Litnerd.

- kids are competitive!! The Leader Board is a huge incentive for kids to keep pushing on the app.

- kids prefer LitQuizzes over any other way of earning Litcoin. Something about immediate gratification compared to, for example, worksheets that are manually graded by our team so you don’t see the Litcoin tally for this until grading is done.
That usleep is wrong. Sure they exist all over the place, but they are wrong. They are merely easy and "good enough". But other thread has not finished it's job because 100ms passed. Other thread does something. Whatever other thread does is the definition of done and ready, not usleep 100000. sleep is crossing your fingers and hoping that other thread did actually finish doing whatever it exists to do by then.

The fact that digital circuits operate by different parts all being synced to clock pulses, and some parts even count the pulses such that the 7th bit in a byte is actually picked out strictly by the timing of 7 pulses, is pointless pedantics when the article is operating in an entirely different domain which does not operate that way and there is cause & effect and the definition of a service being ready is when the service is ready, not any particular passage of time. The service might actually be ready before you even asked, or might still not be ready in an hour, or might have come up fully and gone back down all within the sleep.

Today the service takes 100ms to start and you have a 150ms sleep. Tomorrow the same service runs on faster hardware and takes 1ms to start, and now has it's own wrong timing assumption where when it starts, it shuts back down if there are no clients (stupid thing for most services to do, but people do stupid things all the time), it starts up and sleeps 50ms "to give time for the client". The 150ms sleeping client doesn't issue any requests, the service shuts back down.

You have to be writing the firmware to a spinning disk to talk about time being the actual definition of anything.
Carbon fiber can't be inspected like metals can using radiographic, liquid penetrant, or magnetic particle testing, so even if we did know the exact materials and precise dimensions [1], it's very hard to characterize them and how they responds to stresses.

[1] composite materials are not as homogeneous as metals are, so most of the time we actually don't know the exact materials and precise dimensions. Only manufacturers that make enough parts to afford to do destructive testing can characterize the process enough to make reliable guarantees about part strength.
>Imagine a parent who tells a fully-grown child well into his adulthood that they have an ever-increasing claim on what the child produces by virtue of having given birth to and raised him. Does that not sound abusive? That's not the kind of relationship I want with my government. The government, or at least the American one, is meant to serve the people, not rule over them and allow the people to keep whatever scraps the government allows them to keep.

Thank you for putting that into words, I’ve struggled to succinctly frame the unease that this way of thinking makes me feel.
You can always get another job, and being good at what you do should increase the probability of getting a new one.

Everyone knows about business cycles. It's worth saving for the unexpected layoffs so that you can make it through. To reiterate, knowing I could not have a job tomorrow every single day is not enough justification for giving up my ability to self represent. Plus, I don't have to pay people for the privlidge of losing my independence.
Response from Scott Aaronson:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1799