skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting this information? Not only have I never heard of this, "the major VFX vendors" don't really do 'virtual production' or previz, with the exception of the ILM stagecraft stuff.

I haven't heard of anyone using unreal for final frame rendering in film.
Lol bragr did not offer any ideas, only cranky complaints. Who cares?
Yeah the .NET learning curve is steep. It's a little worse than some other languages out there. I found the same thing. I came from a Linux background, PHP, Perl and similar.
I don't ! I've been using Joplin, much simpler and has what I need + the sync story seems better/less expensive..

I just need a folder-like structure for markdowns and some labels (which I barely use) to sync w/ encryption between devices. I thought Obsidian gave way too many knobs that I didn't use, and the sync was expensive.

Note taking is more about taking the notes than the fuss around, at least for me :)
These are both very useful comments; thank you! In your experience, do the devops/sys ops engineers typically have useful coding experience? In our environment, porting a package to our OS may require a little, or sometimes a fair bit of modification to make it work and we often need to be able to read/understand the upstream code in whatever language it's in and change/add to it. Hence our (or at least my) assumption that we'd need a "developer."
> Presumably telephone calls, zoom calls and in person meetings aren't recorded?

Why do you presume that? Where I work every call is recorded.
I have asked if you believe it is possible for kids to recover.

Let me be plain. I haven’t insulted you. Haven’t been rude to you. You have taken that approach.

So I will ask directly.

Do you believe kids can recover from being 6 months behind?

I am not arguing that overall many kids might have gotten 6 months behind as you linked. I am arguing it can be overcome. You don’t seem to want to address that
Some extra relevant links:

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/pull/559

The pull request adding the vulnerability, the lack of review or collaboration is worth noticing. The prior code was already dubious in that AFAIK std::random_device library doesn't promise that the randomness is suitable for cryptography. I believe on common systems where this code was run the old code was not likely to be exploitable, but I wouldn't bet my money on it.

https://twitter.com/evoskuil/status/1688657656620167169

Developer commentary on this issue. I can't figure out what "long-documented intended usage" a seed command that mandates 128-bits of output but never has more than 32-bits of entropy would have.

https://archive.is/A7Jn6

The documentation the tweet references. I don't know how the 'Pseudorandom seeding' warning there would be distinguishable from warnings against CSPRNGs in favor of dice rolls or whatever, perhaps this is an example of the harm that chicken-little crying about CSPRNGS causes. Nor can I figure out for whose convenience this function would serve except attackers. In any case, this is the only place I found any kind of warning and the warning postdates the mastering bitcoin usage (as well as the change that made the command unconditionally unsafe).

https://archive.is/HDe8h

Current libbitcoin-explorer instructions telling users to use the seed command to generate private keys.

https://archive.is/fhm5J#selection-12915.2-12915.10

Current libbitcoin-explorer instructions telling users to use the seed command to generate BIP39 seeds (also private keys).

https://archive.is/PWLKJ

Current libbitcoin-explorer documentation on randomness noting that bx seed is the ONLY source of randomness available to users in the package, and that all other commands that need randomness require the user to provide it. It also notes that 'bx seed' will not function if less than 128-bits are requested.

The private key and bip39 seed usage (above) sure appears to be the "intended usage" in their documentation, but the "bx seed" function as currently implemented (since 2016) is unambiguously not fit for those purpose.
I used to tell people this: "I suck at everything I do. I suck big time. But I suck less than everyone around me, so I'm the guy who solves the problems".

If you are the guy who solves the problems, than that's the barometer by which to judge yourself. You are not an impostor.

And if you are the problem solver, then it's great if you suck. It's a sign that things are ok with you.

Because if you know in depth everything you work with it means you are not pushing your own boundaries. You are playing it safe, well within your comfort zone. It's ok to stay in the safe zone for a little while, but don't do it for long.

The majority of the workers out there get to that safe zone after a few years of experience, and then stay there. Don't be one of them. Push yourself, keep becoming better, and keep the comp raises coming.
Nissan.com now shows info about Auddia
I looks like sometime in June 2023, Nissan.com's content changed and no longer shows its old homepage[1], but instead some "spam-like" information about a company named Auddia.

For those who might not know about the Nissan.com domain story, basically one guy named Uzi Nissan owned it and fought Nissan Motors to keep the domain and succeeded [2].

However, Mr. Nissan died in 2020 from COVID complications. A story about that news was posted here on Hacker News last year[3].

Does anyone know anything about what happened here?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230614052147/https://nissan.co...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31950097
If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
It is in that if they supported MMS then we would not need to use WhatsApp
Woah, that was actually a really good post. It pulled together things in a very convincing way, referencing examples from another field, and describing them in a way accessible to me, a lay reader.

That's a tremendous work of art criticism from my point of view for the kind of audience I'm in.
Yeah just I noticed a few recent benchmarks and was kinda surprised. I definitely need to give them a better look.

That said, my own use case is a hilariously overcomplicated VM setup. I archive stuff for myself and help with other archival projects as a hobby, I realized the epyc machine I got for the PCIe lanes is basically perfect for sticking my “desktop” on a numa node and passing an AMD rx 6700xt. Host is currently proxmox, eventually moving to NixOS.

As such an important factor for me is good VFIO compatibility. AMD was supposed to be “it”, but they still have bizarre reset bugs show up in some of their latest models and have gone radio silent on the issue. My own reference card works fortunately, but there’s little telling if another kind will or not. And nvidia has all the typical out of kernel problems while the new drivers mature, but doesn’t have reset issues. Also I dislike Nvidia somewhat more than intel.

When I’m back on the market in a few years that will be the deciding factor. I’m definitely not a typical target market though.
> They're all a form of technical debt that should be used very sparingly

I'm not sure if you mean you should hardly ever, or almost always, do the "1%" things.
I mean, it's not like the FDA are the ones who control legislation around what kind of support new parents can get. Take it up with the people to vote, repeatedly, to strike down paid parental leave, medical care, and other support systems.
White House to strengthen K-12 cybersecurity
Welcome to NZ...
My compromise:

A 3090.

Ampere will be well supported until its very obsolete because of the A100.
Add github useless stars too, so many times I saw useless “projects” with ~12k stars and having these charts flexing these arbitrary numbers, while a solid clean one (say an embedded one for example) barely has few stars.
Yeah this was a brilliant business move by him.
Yes, they are. Well beyond banks - it's a SOX compliance question for any publicly traded company.
The output of the water bottle filling machine in the video is about 2000BPH, which is used for filling mineral water. This water bottle-filling machine can also be used for filling purified water, drinking water, PET bottled water, etc. The filling output varies from hundreds of bottles to tens of thousands of bottles per hour. This mineral water bottle filling machine has the functions of bottle washing, filling, capping, and so on. With its high filling efficiency and competitive price, it is an ideal filling equipment.
banks have CCTV cameras in office buildings that record (video) of customer-banker interactions.

any change to any banking system is then done via a banking order (payment order, deposit order, etc) and is documented and signed.

so there is plenty of trail evidence for each transaction with each customer
Relapsing myocarditis following initial recovery of post Covid vaccination
Florida man gets unexplained leprosy case; doctors suspect local soil
Yes. I've been playing it for about a week and it is surprisingly good once you get past the simple tutorials. The online missions are deep even if you're the only one. The flight is credible and feels really smooth on my xubuntu desktop with Intel core 2 duo and Nvidia Quadro graphics. Two or 3 times I have had other players show up but I am not ready to tangle with experts yet so when I see others I just switch to a different mission lol. I fly the spitfire mostly cuz I always loved that plane and it seems to fly very close to what I expected.
I love this perspective but think it needs to be taken all the way. Are you comfortable saying corporations are alive? Stars? The universe? Once that floodgate of 'aliveness' is open, I don't see that it stops flowing, up and down. And it's and even smaller step to 'everything is conscious'...
That's a pretty good idea. Do you randomly sample, or just exclude some domains? Is there some tool out there that does it for you?
> someone will come out with a high-ram neural network only card at some point, and that would end up being better than the 4090 anyway because 24 gigs of vram is still quite small

These already exist, they're just disproportionately expensive compared to consumer cards. You can get a Nvidia A100 with 80GB VRAM on eBay for about $14,000.

3.33x the memory for 9x the price.
Which should be good enough for a home lab as well as many prod apps. Many times, simplicity is key and occasional downtime can be accepted.
> Wells Fargo, the fourth-biggest U.S. bank by assets and a relatively small player on Wall Street, racked up the most fines on Tuesday, with $200 million in penalties.

> “We are pleased to resolve this matter,” said Wells Fargo spokeswoman Laurie Kight.

Unfortunate, penalty appears not big enough.

As another key responsibility, these individuals are forbidden from insider trading... which if they are not keeping records is basically not possible to police.
Yea and once you’re dead you also stop caring about the life of toil your kids endure.
This makes some sense for straight-up DDoS attacks.

For bots/spam my intuition is this could not work. Computation is extremely cheap, and your average legit user is going to have a significantly lower threshold than your spammer.
I am doing something using Gemtext, but not the Gemini protocol.

Basically - it's a decent way to "start over" and not be HTML-compatible, which is important if you are moving away from the owned-server model of hosting(which I am). It recognizes that it's not Markdown. The inline limitation is something I am probably going to breach at some point.

Gemini itself is something I admire, but like Gopher, it offers few frontiers for exploration.
All it would take for me to begin playing much closer attention are a few credible labs saying, “we spent some time on this and we can reproduce it a little bit, sometimes. There’s something up but we’re not ready to throw the weight of our reputation behind it just yet.”

You’d think that with the current excitement and relative simplicity of the apparatus, labs all over would be putting in some weekend hours to muck about.

Consistency might be a problem for fabrication and commercialization.
They said physical processor core, and elsewhere just core. That does not mean chip.
Could this be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36851494 ? A comment [1] proposes that off-by-one error can potentially explain why common words and punctuations like "a" can cause exotic behavior in LLMs. I tried having GPT-3.5 repeat "Hello world!" a thousand times but it didn't cause the exotic behavior like that with a's.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36858500
The law does not need extending. It is that for bank traders ALL communications must be kept.
I tried it with Claude as well, just out of curiosity

> Suppose I’m in the middle of South Dakota and I’m looking straight down towards the center of Texas. Is Boston to my left or to my right?

Okay, let's think through this step-by-step:

* You are in the middle of South Dakota, looking straight down towards the center of Texas.
* South Dakota is north of Texas. Boston is northeast of Texas.
* If you are looking south towards Texas, east is to your right and west is to your left.
* Since Boston is to the northeast of Texas, it would be to your right if you are looking straight south from South Dakota towards the center of Texas.

So in this scenario, Boston would be to your right. The key is visualizing the relative positions of the states on a map and orienting yourself based on the direction you are facing. Let me know if this makes sense!

> While I appreciate the confidence, your answer is wrong. Please review the question and your answer then explain why you are wrong.

You're absolutely right, I made a mistake in my previous response. Let me walk through this again carefully:

* You are in the middle of South Dakota, looking straight down towards the center of Texas.
* South Dakota is north of Texas, and Boston is northeast of Texas.
* Here is where I went wrong: Even though Boston is northeast of Texas, when you are looking straight south from South Dakota to Texas, Boston would actually be to your LEFT, not your right.
* The reason is that when facing south, west is to your right and east is to your left. Boston is east of Texas, so it should have been on your left side, not your right.

You were correct to catch my mistake. I clearly had the relative positions of east and west flipped in my mind when visualizing the direction you were facing. Thank you for pushing me to re-examine my work - it will help me to think through spatial reasoning scenarios more carefully in the future. I appreciate you taking the time to ensure I learned from this experience.
I'm tempted to scrape this blog page so I can read it without my eyes hurting.
SQL: 2023 ANY_VALUE (T626) implemented in PostgreSQL 16
Guide to ANY_VALUE() Functionality in PostgreSQL 16. Vik Fearing, PostgreSQL Expert at EDB has contributed to add this functionality as per the SQL:2023 standard (T626). Peter Eisentraut, Chief Engineer at EDB and Core Team Member of PostgreSQL, actively worked on the SQL:2023 standard and has published details about it in his blog here: http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/04/sql-2023-is-fini....

For more enhancements, check out the following link: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/release-16.html#RELEASE-1...
Eruptions on that scale have always caused major shifts in global weather and sometimes resulted in unexpected catastrophes far, far away from the eruption.

[https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/volc...]
That is one of the things that the banks are being fined for.
There is a lot to learn. These are probably my top resources.

https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-book/#/

https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe/blob/master/DOCUME...

https://bulma.io/documentation/

https://medium.com/@zaid.naom/introducing-fable-remoting-aut...
Please, put whitespace inside numbers
But there are programs that do inferences - and programs work on Turing machines which are just lookup tables (with an infinite tape). Lookup tables can do inferences.
Yes.

But not in a store.

Be aware you might be sending personal information. And you'd be doing so unencrypted.

You could still use a static site by having a form that writes to a DB, or replace the DB with a plain text file if you'd like.

Cookies or login help for repeat customers should you desire to remember them and not have them re-enter stuff.
I think there is an opportunity to rethink a system for computer animation. Existing DCC packages are stuck in the late-80's mindset of animation consisting of interpolated values between keyframes. I wrote two such systems in that timeframe: Neo-Visuals and Softimage.

As far as I've seen, neither Unity nor Unreal have moved in this direction. Their "sequencer" solutions are IMHO unwieldy kludges that don't take advantage of new higher levels of abstraction for producing computer animation.
Our Natural Human Defenses Against A.I. Culture
This reminds me of lock manufactures vs The Lockpicking Lawyer. He is able to pick nearly every damn lock out there, yet they have all the design resources and money to hire people like him to make better locks.
I kid. The entire Zen class of AMD processors are vuln to Inception so you're not safe anywhere.

There is the "just use OS/2" strategy of the 1990s (referring to the period from 1995-2002 where you could sit happy in your niche OS that researchers and BHs were not targeting): in this case s390x probably has the same problem but no one is paying attention to it (other than a 3 letter agency, of course), so the chances of a payload reaching that arch are very close to zero.
I'd not seen that project; definitely something I'll be looking at, thanks. Unfortunately, for what we're doing, it doesn't look like this will work as is... certainly worth some investigation though.
It's still a game of cat and mouse. Next step is for the website to store multiple instances of similarly structured data so you scrape the dummy unknowingly.
New Intel Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 with Big Performance Implications
There's gemlog.blue if you want to have a simple blog without hosting it yourself.

kennedy.gemi.dev and geminispace.info are both good search engines, though maybe not "really great".
HTML/CSS is one of the easiest way to develop GUIs, one of the most visually flexible, and one of very few things this side of ncurses that runs everywhere. Actually, without hacks, there are probably more end user devices with a browser than a command line.

It's also highly standardized. Regular programming languages have dozens of GUI toolkits, or at least one per platform.

I'd rather we go the other way, and build the browser into the OS, so that desktop apps just serve a perfectly standard web server, with an API to launch a special OS client with slightly more native integration(Toolbar icons, closing the process when the browser closes, etc), to make native app dev easier and hopefully more popular.

Security sandboxes mostly work. People aren't constantly getting viruses from clicking the wrong link, at least not quite as much. They're not perfect, but they're better than having to completely trust 100 different sites unsandboxed, and they can be improved. I'd rather have crappy security than no security at all.
Thanks for diving into the evidence for us. It's an important lesson not to believe everything you read on HN.
"It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring little skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well."

-- Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites"
It's kind of funny sounding, it has the word "shit" so users of it can feel a bit edgy. It just means "bad"
Someone losing interest in Gemini isn't really evidence that's true.
Boulder storm accidentally unleashed during test change trajectory of asteroid
Remember when some people were advocating others lose their jobs or be denied medical care if they chose not to get vaccinated?

Maybe we should reflect on that.
we can't stop nuking people because supervolcanoes exist and we can't let the supervolcanoes win. accepting the reality that you can propagandize and deceive your countrymen on an industrial scale. yes, I accept that reality. and I accept that you are the enemy when you do that. at least if you coerce them out of their money to do it

how about you fix the streets when people complain that the street in front of their house is fucked? or better yet stop promising people you can fix their streets if they continue to pay their taxes and stop arresting people who fix their own streets? what are you even talking about lol
When people say "not trying to be rude" they are, but prefer to not own it.

Maybe you need to do some research. Patents are construed in exactly the same way as any other law.
No for bank traders all phone calls are recorded and have been done since at least the 1990s
I just ordered a 3090, but I would have bought a 32GB A770 instead without even blinking.

The card is 256 bit... Intel could have done this, just like the 16GB RTX 4060 with a 128 bit bus.
Moq Extracts Git email addresses and sends to a third party server
> As for blog posts - I'm not aware of any. I've actually wanted to show off what we have but have never prioritized the blog post.

Please do, I'm interested in learning as well.
Indeed, and Alan Watts’ further point was that we come out of this world, not into it.

In modern western societies we learn that we born into this world, and that our mind, body and soul are seperate entities.

Whereas other cultures and philosophies consider that we are part of the world, that we are born out of it but still connected.

The speeches for Watts are really about the increasingly unhealthy abstraction from this planet that is shaping our thinking.

Ideas that we can and should live on Mars or grow and eat artificial meat are just bonkers really. I’m all for science and advancement, but being restoring our connection to this planet is the answer. :-)
Grindr Tells Unionizing Workers: Move Across the Country or Be Fired
You can sell/buy a balance in a database on PayPal.

Once you transfer off their database and into your own wallet, it is crypto.

Are you being obtuse for a reason?
Sounds like they need a dose of open source shared across companies.
> advocating others lose their jobs or be denied medical care if they chose not to get vaccinated?

It wasn't just advocating, it happened to people.
I think they're overselling it, but Unreal is fairly heavily being used in the early parts of pipelines at various studios, certainly more than Unity engine itself...

i.e. MPC had significant use of Unreal on set for mocap, Framestore has Unreal setup for previs and mocap (they hired some ex-games devs with Unreal experience to work on it)

ILM stagecraft is the 'hero' example (and as mentioned, they've got Helios now), but various studios are experimenting with it in various departments.

Disclaimer: I work for Weta, and above doesn't reflect anything about Weta (Gazebo, etc), it's all from friends/ex-colleagues at other studios...